A Better Day for the Big Country

And a better day for everyone else too.

I don't know much about Joe Biden, though I like his gentle tone of address. The only dismay about a return to the US we know must be its often disastrous foreign policy. If Biden can eschew that, the US return to the Paris Accord and other international efforts towards peace and the planet can only be a good thing, and he may provide reassurance and safety for Northern Irish citizens by protecting the GFA. As to the painful problems of the US, I can imagine they may take a long time to heal. But it has to start somewhere, and this is a beginning.

One of the strongest recommendations for Biden's suitability must be the foaming-cheeked hostility of Nigel Farage and the Daily Express; He hates the UK! Screams the twitter headline. I'm sure he doesn't but if we are going to talk about dodgy foreign policy, the UK's record isn't exactly shining. Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage both long ago put forward a theory about the removal of a bust of Churchill from the Oval Office during Obama's tenure.

"Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President's ancestral dislike of the British Empire - of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender" - Boris Johnson

"His first day in the White House, he had the bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office...Because of his grandfather and Kenya and colonialisation (sic), I think Obama has a bit of a grudge against this country" - Nigel Farage

Eye-rolling stuff. Of course Biden's friendship with Obama would make him suspect to men with such notions. Now Johnson's government must try to extricate itself from Trump's fundament to make useful noises at President Elect Biden, and Farage is just a joke again. I hope.

And on the greater stage, Well Done America. We don't know yet if the right man is in. But at least the wrong man is out.