British Conservative in America

Shadow Defense Secretary Liam Fox has been stoking Anglo-American pride in the Special Relationship. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation he quoted Churchill: "We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English speaking world, and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English Common Law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence." All this was a prelude to to saying a) please forgive British Conservatives for not being nice to Mr. Bush, b) you should blame that dastardly socialist Blair for the intelligence failure on Iraq, c) please let Rolls Royce build a second engine for the JSF.