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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (5402)3/6/2004 11:48:50 PM
From: ChinuSFORead Replies (2) of 81568
 
Brumar, the following suggests that Tony Blair's Labour Party is likely to support Kerry. Isn't this similar to N. Korea giving publicity to Kerry. Publicity to Kerry is one thing. But for members of the British Labour Party (Blair's party) having to rub noses with American politicians and expressing their support for Kerry just goes to show how unpopular Bush is even in Europe and the UK. Happy reading.

Will the PM turn his back on Bush?

JASON BEATTIE AND FRASER NELSON

THE accents around the table told the story. In the campaign room at Labour’s Millbank HQ, the Scottish brogue of Gordon Brown and Douglas Alexander jostled with the harsher American accents of Bob Shrum and Stan Greenberg.

Labour’s 2001 election campaign masterminds started every day with a morning meeting born of a long tradition of fraternity between Labour and the Democrats. This is a relationship Mr Blair is now desperately trying to put on ice, as he orders his staff to stay away from Senator John Kerry’s campaign team until the end of the presidential elections in November.

The Democrats are looking to London for help and Mr Blair’s allies are itching to help Kerry unseat President Bush. New Labour was forged from ideas borrowed, or lifted wholesale, from Bill Clinton’s New Democrats. The two parties are cut from the same cloth.

Keeping them apart this election time will be an arduous but vital task for Mr Blair. Over the last two years, he has aligned himself with the White House perhaps more closely than any other prime minister. This time, he cannot afford to back the wrong horse.

One Labour source said: "We won’t be helping the Democrat campaign; we won’t be helping the Republicans. We have to sit this one out religiously."

Mr Blair can issue edicts that no-one must be seen attending the Democrat Convention in Boston this July - apart from Mr Alexander, the Cabinet Office minister expected to be given a licence to attend as an "observer" - but he cannot airbrush out links that already tie his party dangerously close to Kerry’s campaign.

..contd at thescotsman.scotsman.com
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