At this stage of the game, I really don't think we can afford to worry about the Yanks and the Tea party.

there are two questions facing the country.

1) Do we persist in the 'red in claw' policies which means we let businesses got to the wall, privatise wherever and whenever we can or do we prime the pump and try and help our few remaining businesses survive.

2) Do we tell America to get stuffed when it embarks on daft military adventures like the French do,. Or are the French being cheese eating surrender monkeys, and evading their responsibilities. Remember poor Harold Wilson who expressed some qualifications about the wisdom and practicality of the Vietnam war and got our economy turned into a punchbag for his temerity. Is our bread buttered better by letting them kill a few of our kids in uniform in some pointless altercation with people who have evaded education and civilisation for 600 years?