In his speech today in Westminster Hall, Barack Obama gave a superb example of the inferred but ommitted. There was a part of his speech when he was describing the times in history when the United States and the United Kingdom had worked together for the benefit of mankind. At one point in the speech, you just know that he wanted to mention the role that the UK had played in stabilising the world's financial system in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse. It was a rare unacknowledged moment in history when the knowledge and expertise of a UK politician came to the rescue of a US President and the wider world. But, out of respect for the current encumbent and the political niceties of the day, he said nothing to Gordon Brown about the importance of his actions and his leadership in those days. When the world financial system might well have collapsed in a spiral of financial chaos.
So on behalf of Barack Obama, David Cameron, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and all of the other leaders of the worlds market led economies, who owe a huge debt of gratitude to Gordon Brown, I'd like to say thank you for being the right man in the right place at the right time.
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