Europhobia - Dear God - someone pass the mind-bleach: It's just sunk in how utterly screwed the government should be over all this. I mean, in just the last week we've had: [ED: snip of very long list] And God alone knows what else I've missed. Do they actually WANT to get wiped out at the local elections next week?

Blair Watch - Are the wheels really coming off the wagon, or am I just being over-optimistic?

Something to keep in mind....

Blair has survived a number of serious threats to his premiership with the use of the following method:

Cabinet members form a tight circle around him (or perhaps a triangle, when numbers are short) and friendly media bods are used to create a perception of support/stability. In short, the public is assured that the matter simply isn't an issue, and - eventually - the issue goes away.

But it is an issue and - if you'll pardon the pun - this week it has been widely acknowledged that it is a Major issue.

Blair is fast running out of credible cabinet members... and he can no longer rely on Murdoch. If anything, Murdoch is on the attack.

He is fighting a losing battle, and the longer this goes on, the more likely it is that he will drag Labour down with him.

BSCC - Something in the Air: So Labour are at a 19-year low in the opinion polls. I do believe I detect the beginnings of a long slow decline into long-term opposition unless something dramatic is done like now. In all fairness, this is only partly Blair's fault. The rest of the Labour Party have not been able to grasp that he's become a serious liability so they've got to take some blame too. And the assortment of sycophantic incompetents he's got as ministers, of course.

You can't say that we didn't warn you.

(But we do look forward to being blamed for all of this because we didn't clap for Tinkerbell.)