Gordon Brown is proclaiming that he will “work closely” with Barack Obama and the rest of his administration after Obama’s inauguration as President of the United States over the issues of the economy and the environment.

My question is: does Obama get a say in this?

Maybe he doesn’t want to work with a man as closely associated with the cause of this global recession as Brown, who has been Chancellor or Prime Minister for the past eleven-plus years.

Has Gordon Brown actually asked Barack Obama if he can tag along? Somehow I think its just a bit of rhetoric; propaganda designed to try and siphon a little bit of Obama’s popularity in his direction.