The plan is that Tony Blair will slip out of Downing Street some time next spring, leaving the New Labour project intact and on the road. Loyal Blairite cabinet ministers will guarantee the continuation of Tony’s work, while the presence of David Cameron’s "New Tories" on the right flank will check any tendency for Gordon Brown to lurch left.
When Tony Blair is driven away from Downing Street, his policies should go with him. The end of Blair should also mean the end of Blairism.
Five years ago next Monday saw the terrible events of 11 September 2001. While millions around the world mourned, George Bush and the neoconservatives around him were busy plotting to use the attacks as a pretext for unleashing terror across the world.
Another week, another lurch to the right from New Labour. This time it is the idea of a multicultural society that is under attack from government ministers.
Amid the slew of lies about the "crisis" that will be caused by "floods of immigrants" who are threatening to arrive from Romania and Bulgaria (lies echoed by all the major parties), it is important to restate some basic facts.
"Hizbollah started the crisis, and Hizbollah suffered a defeat in this crisis." Those were George Bush’s words at the start of this week. He is 100 percent wrong on both counts.
Tony Blair is cutting an increasingly isolated figure even within his own cabinet - we are told. His shameless support for Israel’s slaughter has shaken even New Labour diehards - we are told. Ministers are deeply embarrassed by the prime minister’s deranged remarks about a Muslim "arc of extremism" - we are told.
A new movement is being born in Britain, building on the previous anti-war mobilisations.
George Bush and Tony Blair’s support for Israel’s assault on Lebanon sends a message to every petty tyrant throughout the world - that providing they back the "war on terror", they can carry out horrendous crimes and still depend on Western support.
The campaign of terror that Israel is waging against the Palestinians in Gaza and against the Lebanese is frighteningly similar to the terror that was used to create the Israeli state in 1948. The Palestinians call the creation of Israel the Nakba - the catastrophe.
Tony Blair announced last week that he was disappointed by British Muslims failing to root out "extremism within their community".
One year on from the London bombings we remember the shock, the fear and the images of pain and grief from the attacks. Our thoughts now, as a year ago, are with the families of those killed and injured in the bombings.
