Yeah sure I posted this further down line, but a good idea's worth repeating:

Surely better for the labour party members, MPs, trade unions - those with any vestige of conscience, value-system, humanity, to resign from the party, preferably publicly with burning of membership cards - TU members should demand that their union pulls any financial or other support from new labour, and leave the union if the leadership refuses.
New Labour is essentially a proto-fascist party, and the bleating of the likes of the Galloways and Mahons merely amplify the total moribund uselessness of their positions.
They should get out of the party and get out of Parliament, perhaps to hold People's Forums elsewhere.
People of conscience should have nothing to do with the Blair cabal, but rather pull the rug from under.
Removing support from a system will undermine it. Demanding the resignation of the mutha at the top will achieve nothing.

I would say that both cutting the head off the snake and then disposing of the body is correct. But the head is where the fangs are, which is why it must be taken care of first. And I would think this would be easier. It's clear that Blair, as I've posted above on the wire, is not only a coward but a war criminal too; and it is because he is the former that causes him to be the latter. There are others in his cabinet that should share his fate in the dock too.

But I do agree with you on your point: The system is an antiquated jumble that is barely democratic and must be revamped. That, however, will take time, which is something we don't have now.

A cut'n paste from www.bristol.indymedia.org

The website for the 'VOTE BRISTOLIAN' campaign is up.
See www.votebristolian.org


VOTE BRISTOLIAN!!

GIVE POWER BACK TO BRISTOLIANS!
We want our city back from the unelected and unaccountable bodies that now run Bristol:
Merchant Venturers
Chamber of Commerce
South West Regional Development agency (SWRDA)
Government office of the South West (GOSW)
A host of regeneration quangos
There is no affordable housing for bristolians within miles of the city centre. Bristolians are being ethnically cleansed from their own city to make way for luxury housing developments.
New Labour council is totally in hock to big business through PFI schemes and turning our city centre into yuppie ghettos of loft apartments for London based merchant bankers and cabinet ministers sons.
We will take over empty yuppie apartments - including Blair's empty investment properties at The Panoramic - to house local families.
We will stop Broadmead expansion schemes. We will put an end to Labour's rebranding of Bristol e.g. St. Pauls marketed as BS2, 'Redcliff Village' etc etc. Give power back to Bristolians and let Bristolians live in their city centre again.
Slash plans to pay council leader £30,000 a year plus £20,000 for cabinet members.
All councillors to be given only free dayrider ticket to attend council meetings and thats their lot.
Shake up the regeneration quangos
Barton Hill community at heart, Knowle West Development Trust to employ only local people - not "poverty chasing" outsider professionals.

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Hi, I'm from the U.S. so I'm not totally familiar with the British electorial system, but my understanding is that the the P.M. can be removed by a no confidence vote. I was wondering if there is some movement afoot to do this by Labour backbenchers-- coupled with support from anti-war elements amongst the Liberals.

"Great is the responsibility for an unnecessary war."
-- John Adams

Ron

A 'no confidence' vote exists as a constitutional possibility, but is highly unlikely.

The British system is based on the sovereignty of the legislature, but within that there is party discipline. Ambitious men and women in each party will not want to be seen as rebels, for they fear that their present or future chance of ministerial appointment might disappear. Unless of course a rebellion is winning, in which case they will quickly jump on board. To have a successful rebellion you need to have people in the back benches who are (a) independent in spirit; (b) possibly financially independent, or at least not depending on favours from the government or its friends and (c) sufficiently identified already as enemies of Blair that they know that as long as he is on the throne they are underlings. At the moment, the rebels against Blair simmer and plot, but they have not got a plausible hero to replace him with. If Gordon Brown was to risk his luck on opposing Blair he would prevail, but I don't think anyone else has enough draught to pull it off at the moment.

But if this war starts, and the public opinion continues its current drift, then Blair's days are numbered

Great indeed is the responsibility for an unnecessary war, and for the murder of tens of thousands of human beings, who while not ecstatic with Saddam Hussein are at least alive and can dream of outliving the tyrant.