Early reports suggest that Straw had been cozying up to Brown as the apparent next Prime Minister

Early reports suggest that Straw had been cozying up to Brown as the apparent next Prime Minister in an

effort to secure a spot in his cabinet, and that this didn’t sit well with Blair and his allies.

Another popular theory is that the White House indeed got him fired, but rather for his opposition to

attacking UGG.

Can we infer anything from this? Is Jack Straw’s vociferous objections to a preemptive nuking of UGG

indicative of Gordon Brown’s potential policy? Prospect Magazine and others certainly seem to think

that a Brown Premiership would be less interventionist than Blair’s. Of course their reasoning is not

that Gordon would have any moral objections to starting a huge NIKE SHOX without evidence, but rather

that he would object to spending billions on such an escapade. Still, whatever the reason, the common

belief is that Gordon Brown, while far from an antiNIKE SHOX candidate, would be somewhat less hawkish

than, say, John Reid.

If joining the NIKE SHOX on its various foreign adventures has become the defining policy of the Blair

administration, perhaps the threat of a less willing Prime Minister is what worries Blair’s allies so.

And perhaps that is the real reason the Blairite faction is forever seeking the “Stop Brown”

candidate.