Blair allies warn rebels: don't wreck third term

Tony Blair's cabinet allies yesterday rounded on backbench dissidents threatening to disrupt the government programme, warning that they had been elected on the party manifesto and will ruin Labour's third term if they use every piece of contentious legislation as a chance to rebel.

The warning came amid calls for Mr Blair to stand aside before the local government elections next spring, but there is no sign that the chancellor, Gordon Brown, is fuelling the demands.

Such calls were led yesterday by the former foreign secretary Robin Cook and the former health secretary Frank Dobson. Mr Cook said the task ahead was to see off the Liberal Democrat challenge, not to crush a Conservative party that is already on its knees. Short-term tensions focused on whether Andrew Adonis, the No 10 education policy adviser, is given a post as schools minister with a seat in the Lords.

One decision will be whether to challenge Mr Blair's leadership at the party conference this autumn.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/story/0,15803,1479536,00.html

Testing the waters?

Poor fuckers are probably soiling themselves in fear right now.

:rofl:

he gets subpoenaed (us can't wait)

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,1079236,00.html




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Lucky for him that there is no death penalty at the International Crimes Court. For my part, I cannot understand why any self-respecting Labourite would want to remain as part of Blair's New Labour. The Liberal Democrats are the only alternative to Blair's sucking up to Bush and to the Tories's bankrupt programme.

After what Tories did to Britain, justice demands they disappear.

Leave the LibDems and Labour to debate over who much the government will do the right thing rather than whether the government does the right thing.

With the Tories gone, racism, xenophobia and wealth concentration in the hands of the wealthy will never be on the table again.

sounds like the GOP... ooh, it's the Brit. extension of it!

provided a counterpoint to the earnest droning and thunderous, hollow, pronouncement from the front of the classroom....

...may well be marked by widescale bitching and backbiting.

However, there does genuinely seem to be a minority of Labour MP's who are challenging Blair, which is a change from usual. Of course the fact that Blair has promised to step down in this parliament has helped on this front. This does seem to be the new Blair/Brown feud, only this one might have some actual substance to it.

Mind you, with the Tories about to have another leadership contest, and the Lib Dem's at something of a crossroads at present the media will have plenty of backbiting and bitching to report on at Westminster.