SO, PUNDITS -especially on this side of the Atlantic- were salivating because, with Poodle Blair gone, the new PM Gordon Brown was going to break up with the US on Iraq, the War on Terror, etc. It was a done thing, awaiting Brown's trip to the US; and it would leave Bad Bush even more isolated than he's now. Well, turns out it's a bit different from that:

GORDON Brown last night praised George Bush for leading the global war on terror — saying the world owed America a huge debt.

The Prime Minister vowed to take Winston Churchill’s lead and make Britain’s ties with America even stronger.

Of course, that won't keep those pundits from pontificating...