Summery

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