Summary
LUNCHTIME, Wednesday. As George W Bush and his jubilant team begin the swift return to their offices in the White House, the rest of the free world appears to be wallowing in depression. Across the capitals of Europe, his sceptical fellow leaders perform linguistic gymnastics in order to welcome Bush back to office, yet at least hint at their disappointment that they will be facing four more years of struggle with the most right-wing president they have ever known. Even Tony Blair, often a lone European voice prepared to speak in support of the Hanging Texan's world view, can only offer a half-hearted greeting.
His own MPs, assembled sullenly around him at Prime Minister's Question Time, are less restrained, freely venting their own concerns that the victory for the right in the United States would reap dire consequences for the rest of the world.See the full content of this document
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Follow Their Leader
"I can say with some confidence that I am sure the people of Telford, Pennsylvania will have voted for John Kerry last night," David Wright, Labour MP for Telford, in the English Midlands, told his leader at the start of his first question of the day. "Unfortunately, most of their countrymen did not do the same."
Wright was fretting in particular about the future of the Middle East peace process; the bulk of his party, the left, liberals and most of Europe, will also cite Iraq, missile defence, climate change and trade tariffs as reasons why Bush should be opposed.They ignore some of the most significant reasons why he was supported, in record numbers,...See the full content of this document
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