Chancellor Brown

The British are coming!
Chancellor Gordon Brown will fly out to the US this week to press Bush over climate change and global poverty, which he believes rich countries have an “enlightened self-interest” to solve.
He was recently accused of a "blatant pre-election bribe" in that two and a half million families will received a £250 child voucher just before the next General Election.
Brown will talk in Washington and New York.
He will then move on to Washington for talks with US Treasury Secretary John Snow and representatives from the World Bank and IMF over the weekend.
He is “optimistic” that the US will favor 100% debt relief for the world’s poorest nations.
He is a Chancellor - but which one? This one is known as ‘Sir Spend-A-Lot’.
He will target the IMF and the World Bank.
Britain wants money to combat AIDS and malaria and to boost education in developing countries.
He has his hand out.
British drug companies make AIDS and malaria vaccines. They will make billions providing the drugs to third world nations – they intend to collect payment from the United States out of money Bush promised to spend.
British publishing companies sell hundreds of millions of books used throughout their Commonwealth.
As for relief from the IMF and the World Bank – both American – the British banking system is looking forward to the windfall of new loans and financing. They need to ease their own corrupt system before it plunges us into depression.