Hail To The Chief?

I hope that the Government is suitably humiliated at being well to the right, in the very worst sense, of the Tories on banking reform. But I doubt that it is. It is beyond shame, and then some.

Anyway, William Hague repeatedly referred to Barack Obama as "the President", as one would say "the Prime Minister" or "the Queen". "You are not my President", the placards used to proclaim against Bush, and now proclaim against Obama. No chance of the pretended party of national sovereignty waving them, though.