Straw Man

Prime Minister Blair is abroad; deputy Prime Minister Prescott is in high-level hospital care. The Leader of the House should be running things in their absence. Unfortunately who is really pushing and shoving us all about and wrecking lots of careful inter party work, while bullying 'journalists' is the usual bogey man suspect, Brown. Why is the United Kingdom being treated like these people's play thing?

The Constitution may be unwritten but it is supposed to be there. Let's hope nothing more serious than being at war on two fronts, facing quite bad economic problems, and other chronic situations, doesn't hot up into a crisis before the Prime Minister's victory tour is completed.