The bits I have heard sounded very good - finally standing up to the plutocrats, and the Republican screams indicate that it hurt them. It also seemed to provide foundations for biting attacks on either of Romney or Gingrich. Nice to see.


And at much the same time the French left appears to have grown a pair large enough to threaten Sarkozy (even though Sarkozy almost appeals to me for the way he drubs Scameron every time the two go head to head).



Obama Keynesian reflation (even strangled by the malevolent Repubs in the Senate) has given the US a much better bounce-back, economically, than the UK, where Osbornomics has clearly given us a double-dip which even the chief economist of the IMF suggests is aggravated by excessive austerity.



Maybe 2012 will see the rise of the left and the fettering or better dismantling of plutocracy - trends present in the UK from time to time since about 1700 that Scameron tries to airbrush out of history - trends endorsed by some of the more admirable figures from the political history of the US.


The people's flag is deepest red.