As one political commentator after another has been saying all through the day, it is unprecedented for a Prime Minister not to sack a Minister who has spoken so scathingly of hismpolicies. Yet Blair has still not sacked Clare Short. (I've been misspelling her name previously).
Not will he. He dare not. For one thing,Clare Short is one of the most competent Ministers in his Cabinet and there would be a wave of sympathy from other Ministers and members of the Labour Party were he to give her the heave-ho. For another, Blair knows now that he's on unstable ground. He is not going to get a second resolution of the sort that he and Bush are after through the UN. He knows the game is up and he does not know what to do or say now. He is transfixed like a rabbit faced by a fox. He can only wait for Bush to agree to postpone invasion for much further into the future than March 17 and thus satisfy Russia, France and China. I think Blair and Bush have totally lost the plot now. Bush can only proceed now by destroying Iraq, the United Nations and the credibility of the United States. Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
