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Hot on the heels of France getting a new President, it was announced yesterday that the UK will soon be getting a new PM as well. Anthony Blair, the longtime Prime Minister announced that he will finally resign his office, effective June 27.
Gordon Brown, Blair’s longtime Chancellor of the Ex-checker, is poised to be the new PM upon his resignation. He’s considered to be the architect of Britain’s economic successes during the 2000’s, one of the few bits of the Blair legacy people still regard positively.
Brown will arrive at 10 Downing Street at a time when odd people are coming to power in other parts of the United Kingdom. On Tuesday the ultraconservative anti-Catholic demagogue Ian Paisley became PM of Northern Ireland, following his party’s sweep to power in the March elections. And a separatist could soon become PM of Scotland, too. The Scottish Nationalist Party won the most seats in the recent Scottish legislative elections; a particularly embarrassing setback for Brown himself, who is a Scotsman.
