Ah, politics. I now just view it as this century's gladiator craze and quietly plan to move to the UK once it gets horrible.
Mmm - my knowledge of British politics is superficial. But from a distance the UK does not a look a whole lot better than the U.S. Blair has a better personality than Bush - but in foreign affairs seems to take essentially the same position. Is it really an improvement that when he support horrid things he is smart enough and well educated enough to know better? And on civil liberities and racism the UK looks as bad, maybe worse the U.S. I'm not saying there are not diffeences; the UK is much better on gay rights, and and rundown and second rate as it is, you do have the National Health which is (barely) better than what we have in the U.s. in terms of results. And better on global warming, but not great. I'm trying to see the difference that would make the UK the place to go to if the U .S. goes further down hill.