Here comes The Junior Partner 8/5
David Cameron ‘s jourey to power
→Well-educated (Eton,Oxford)
→Takes only 4 years entering parliament
→His 6-years old son died in 2009.
UK’s eye-watering cuts
‧ Proposing to cut spending by 30 billion($45.5 billion) a year.
‧ Freeze public-sector pay
‧ Hack back the welfare bill
‧ Increase value-added tax (VAT)on all but essential goods and services.
U.S.-U.K. relations→ intertwined→need recalibrated
‧The UK Prime Minister
‧ Margaret Thatcher v.s. Ronald Reagan
‧ Tony Blair
‧ Gordon Brown
‧ Now：David Carmeron
A.)Cameron is facing the struggle of BP oil leak.
→quiet diplomacy is better than ”grenade” (手榴彈)
→BP is still a stable and strong company.
B.)Economic recovery
C.)Afghanistan and security and intelligence cooperation.
D.)The same of Obama and Cameron
→seriously clever and one suspects.
→Both are controlled, data-driven and pragmatic.
E)The right? the left? depends on the issue of the moment.
F)Everything is fine , but the BP’s leak may cause the UK economic a double-dip recession.
G) Reduce the soldier in Afghanistan.
UK’s demestic affair
‧ The coalition government can’t agree on a core issue.
‧ Cameron is leading the old party away from its old habits.
→Agree on homosexual marriage.
‧ Carmeron is going to change British’s politics.
【Word】
Intertwine糾纏; 編結
Recalibrate 重新校準
Grenade手榴彈
