Defiant Blair rejects quit calls (BBC)

A defiant Tony Blair has said he will not give in to pressure to quit over the cash-for-honours affair.

The Prime Minister told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he hoped the police inquiry would be over "shortly".

But he said he intended to "get on with the job," adding: "You will have to put up with me for a bit longer."

Mr Blair is due to stand down this year but has come under pressure to go now after being interviewed by police as a witness for a second time.

Senior Labour figures, including party chairman Hazel Blears and former leader Neil Kinnock, have said the cash-for-honours inquiry is damaging the government.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6323149.stm

... how does anyone think this will?

Seriously, how much longer do you think they can hold it together until they are in that much trouble or they just pull the plug on all pretense?

I'm putting it in _weeks_, not months, now.

Can Blair hang on?
Analysis
By Nick Assinder
Political correspondent, BBC News website

Tony Blair was at his most defiant earlier, insisting not only that he will not be forced out by the cash-for-honours affair, but that it would be undemocratic if he were.

It was his attempt to answer David Cameron's stinging charge during Wednesday's Commons question time that his continued leadership is now harming the national interest.

Far from damaging the country by staying, Mr Blair suggested in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, it was actually in the nation's interest that he is not driven out.

However, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell has now added his voice to the demands for Mr Blair to go now to allow the British people to "move on".
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But, even without that, those close to him - and it would still take senior allies to do this - may simply feel enough is enough and offer him the political equivalent of the pearl handled revolver
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6323825.stm

:hurts:

Squash him!

google Tauzin, ca$h? payoff? IMHO

apparently, nobody will stand up to the guy.

then,
you get what you get.

He will be replaced by Gordon Brown before 2007 is over. The only question is exactly when.

Brown may not be much better, but he will be better.