"I joined this party because I love my country and I love the people in it”
Little political prossie, debut conservative conference as leader, Blackpool, 2005/06

The Observer has published its Blair decade special as Gordon Brown faces a revolt of pension plans and an interparty hate campaign, so it’s time to remind readers that David Cameron should be kicked in the nuts. Despite all the movements at Labour and the ineffectual stolidity and false sophistication of Blair/Brown, warm words about himself and other Tories won’t win Cameron the filthy den. The suggestion that the Tories are electable because they’ve got a professional cream dispenser in charge is still laughable, but if you believe the various party/leader polls then in little more than two years Camers could soon be leading government and the country down a centre-right wormhole of vacuous policy.

But it’s not just party politics that has been turning the ground centre-right in the last two years, particularly with the natural right-wing bias in the press being restored after an eight-year flirtation with Pepsi right politics in the New Labour ‘project’. Just watch the creaking British establishment’s turning circle as they move with considerable effort and fragrant flagrancy out from behind the setting shadow of Blair to face David Cammerun’s rising sun.

As unaccountable bloggers we’re not obliged to give examples but we will. You can take your pick from any recent incident but two last year serve our purposes: the furore over teachers wearing the veil last year and the proposals to get down with the uth by enfranchising them. In the first, Dewsbury Labour MP stooge Shahid Malik's eagerness to please the Labour hierarchy handed Dave from Marketing the opportunity to make uncomments that were innately conservative and bore no relation to the reality of his role, as the leader of a party of politicians that is at the same time deeply political.

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The coalition has Iranian officers captive after raids in Iraq, Britain regularly insists on the IRGC’s meddling role in southern Iraq as elsewhere and there is the small matter of a huge country with a huge population being denied the right to develop nuclear power, so the impartial at least might see some justification, call it a bargaining tool, for Iran’s taking hostage the UK naval personnel.

So there may have been an incursion, but let us remember that Iran has much more right to ‘interference’ in a neighbour’s affairs than either the US or the UK. There is still little indication whether this incident has been endorsed at the top, or if Ahmadinejad has pulled another stunt that will lose him political capital in Tehran.

But if any further ‘escalation’ happens, as it no doubt will, we expect our media to be in the frontline apologising for the moral rectitude of the West offensive’s measures. At least one BBC reporter was caught talking about the incident near the Shatt al-Arab as being in the ‘northern Arabian Gulf’ – something guaranteed to get the backs up of Iranians who see it as the ‘Persian Gulf” and nothing else (even much American military literature is more respectful). Then you have all the papers including the Independent taking it as read that the incident occurred in Iraqi waters, when the marine demarcation is not exactly clear and of course changed many times in the 1980-88 first Gulf war.

Expect the naval insurgents to have a long stay in Tehran. And Lenin has this there

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All day Monday, when Deputy Leader of the House Nigel Griffiths MP resigned over the government's plans to replace Tribent (a government minister’s resignation only making the third item, behind the cricket world cup), Sky News referred to the government's decision to ‘replace the nuclear deterrent’. It’s more than a little debatable that upgrading and renewing your nuclear weapons system is an effective deterrent against a nuclear attack against the UK, but Sky are happy to fill in any gaps in viewers’ views, of course.

Over at the BBC, meanwhile, under a link offering 'The News in 2 Minutes' [I know what you’re thinking; a bit long innit] we have 'Nuclear weapons "essential"'. Nice qualifier guys.

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For the Scum, social disintegration is the least of it, not when a CELEBRITY can be screamed into the text. Ray Fine has no chance of constant gardening with this threat from gangs, and maybe they should think about his turf rather than encroachment on their turf. Please kids, you’re alienated and amoral, but be aware of who lives nearby next time you get the Stanleys out.