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November 9, 2008 (LPAC)--"I was Minister of State at the Foreign Office at the time of the last transition, when Bush took over from Clinton," writes Brian Wilson in today's Scotsman on Sunday. "It was the most awesome diplomatic exercise I have ever witnessed, or am likely to. Nothing else mattered to the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] mandarins but to get 'our man' -- at that time Tony Blair -- in there first.

"While the rest of the world observed proprieties and stood back while hanging chads in Florida were being disputed, the UK diplomatic machine was in overdrive, having decided all the huffing and puffing in Christendom was not going to overturn the result. They were right, and the tactic, in the short term at least, succeeded.

"A similar desperate scramble will be going on to get Gordon Brown in there, fast and first. Britain has many friends in Washington, and I would put my money on Brown being at the head of the queue."

"Of course, that's what they're doing," Lyndon LaRouche commented. "Not only that. They are deploying the screwup factor, causing such a screwup that nothing gets done."

Gordon Brown himself leads the campaign with a fawning op-ed in today's London Guardian. "The election of Obama has inspired millions... This is a defining moment. A new chapter of the human story is being written and will be studied by our children, and their children, and their children after them," he slobbers.

One of the few concrete statements in Brown's windy eulogy to Obama and himself, is the promise to build "green companies and green jobs as we make the transition to a low-carbon economy." In this, LaRouche said he is following the orders of his boss, the Duke of Edinburgh, the leading fascist and genocidalist.