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Where’s Kevin Rudd in all of this?
So, finally, I propose that together Britain and America strive to make the international language that happens to be our own far more freely available across the world. I am today asking the British Council to develop a new initiative with private-sector and NGO partners in America, to offer anyone in any part of the world help to learn English.
I can hear the progressives now: “Linguistic Imperialism!”
O/T
Probably the most amusing “it wasn’t my fault” piece I have read since Paul Keating’s rants. Good old Mal Fraser coming out and justifying his support for Mugabe is a rip snorting read:
To put it in perspective for our American friends: Malcolm Fraser - ex-Prime minister and Australia’s equivalent of Jimmy Carter.
Well, Krudd could order some pretty nifty dinners in Chinatown while he waits for The Call from DC or London. Or maybe even Ottawa or Jamaica or some other really important place.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 04 16 at 03:31 PM • permalinkWron
Next time leave York alone.Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2008 04 16 at 05:39 PM • permalinkFraser: “The director of the office rang me to make sure that I did not say anything publicly about the disturbances in Zimbabwe because he feared it would put at risk people working in CARE in remote parts of the country. It was advice I accepted at the time.”
On the other hand, he opposed a moderate Bishop Abel Muzorewa, and interferred with British policy at the time without any concern that Mugabe’s goons were killing oposition supporters in ‘disturbances’ for years.
Risk a democratic future, but not his own friends, or the Marxists
He hasn’t the grace, even now, to admit that Thatcher was yet again correct on foreign policy - because she had guts and he didn’t.
This is as bad as Gough Whitlam’s recognition of USSR’s sovreignty over the states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, despite having many refugeees in his own country.Here’s Another one from our Canadian friends. A right not to wash your hands if you work in a restaurant.
#3 Wacko. Yeah, WTF is up with that?
A Labor stalwart, Button, has his funeral, but where is our Great and Glorious Leader? Sucking up the ass of some self important, America hating (except when it comes to greenbacks), self proclaimed environmental saviour of Australia, dumb ass bitch?
Not that I care so much about John Button, but it must be a slap in the face to his particular faction of the Labor Party.
And you’d have to be Sherlock friggin’ Holmes to find Rudd’s maternity trip mentioned in any detail, even in the Conservative press.
What I saw: tiny (like 100 word) “Odd Spot” type piece on the bottom right hand corner of page 3 of the Herald-Sun.
WTF!!!
/rant off
“But I still don’t trust the Poms. Not since they burnt down the White House with nary a good reason.”
To echo J.M. Heinrichs:
Want a good reason? Your cack-handed attempt to invade the Canadian colonies.
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2008 04 16 at 06:52 PM • permalinkRudd is at the baby health centre.
#1Well, in 18 and 14, we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Missisip#3 Live photo opportunity not a dead end.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 16 at 07:47 PM • permalinkFortunately few in Britain, let alone in the US, take Gordon Brown seriously. He is a contributor to the lawless, over-taxed, poorly-educated state of Britain today.
Britain - a socialist, politically-correct backwater, governed from Brussels, sliding at an accelerating rate into global irrelevancy. Britons with half a brain are getting out, permanently, as fast as they can, to Spain, Australia, even Canada(!).
Simon Field in The Spectator this week:
“He is arraigned for dithering, also for being an unreconstructed Stalinist…:
Brown. Phfffft. I reckon the WSJ published the piece as a send-up.
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 04 16 at 09:40 PM • permalinkOT Did you know that the chance of a journalist at the ABC checking a science story properly are estimated to be more than 4,500,000 to 1.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 16 at 10:02 PM • permalinkThe problem with Gordon Brown is that he really does imagine everything has a statist and bureaucratic solution.
It seems pretty obvious to me that British and American universities co-operate pretty well already using innovations such as ‘the internet’ and ‘the telephone’. The same is true for businesses. They don’t need to the government’s of the UK and USA to blunder in with frameworks for anglospheric cooperation.
With testimonials like this, I’ve never been less concerned about the strength of the Australia-U.S. axis.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2008 04 16 at 10:23 PM • permalinkRittenhouse
Damn fantastic…and I must say…Damn happy you are with us OZ.
Your young and brave, are a damn fine lot.
All each of our nations must remember, is WE (meaning both) have been in the breech together before…That must continue.
Along with the Brit’s and Canadian’s, the English speakers, keep the world from total domination of a very very foul cult.
#31:
Why is Kevin making the tea?
Because he’s from Queensland - and he’s here to help!
ha ha ha ha ha
Don’t forget to wash up afterwards, Kevin. And make sure you hang the tea towels up properly. Hang them straight this time, so they dry.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 17 at 01:10 AM • permalinkThe Anglosphere of Bush, Blair and Howard was the premier alliance in the world a few years back. Bush is still there and Brown has replaced Blair. But the place at the table that Howard occupied seems to have been cleared away.
It’s understandable. Even Rudd’s disciples in the press seem to accept that Rudd doesn’t have any real friends. You can work with him but you can never trust him to stand by you. That isn’t lost on world leaders such as Brown and Bush, who will always keep Rudd at arm’s length. It is in stark contrast to Howard, whose loyalty was legendary.
An example of what I am talking about. Rudd said this after he visited the wounded Ramos Horta in hospital in Darwin?
(Horta) is a fighter, I know the old Jose .... he has got a bit of a fight ahead of him still. I simply visited him and said some quiet words to him. I would like to come back when he is up for it.
If he did call back it didn’t make the news. Expect that Rudd forgot Ramos-Horta as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.
Speaking of Anglosphere, a Digger weighs in on his American compatriots.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2008 04 17 at 06:45 AM • permalink#35 Howzat. The budget is looming and I think Mr Swan may find himself fighting alone on a dark front.
Where’s Costello when you need him? He would shred Swan sinew by sinew and do it with a smile. Unfortunately this may be left to Nelson or Turnbull, both of whom lack the experience and manner to skin Swan alive.
Rudd’s 2020 appeared within 48 hours of Australia thrashing Indian cricket team in the most one sided Twenty20 match in the short history of this version of the sport. The match was all the talk the next day - a Saturday. By Sunday, there was Rudd talking about his 2020.
It has since been franchised to other Labor-aligned groups, providing a nice earner for the likes of Labor-ABC’s Geraldine Doogue.
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Well the Prime Minister can say all the sweet things he wants to. But I still don’t trust the Poms. Not since they burnt down the White House with nary a good reason.