One Day To The Death of the New Labour Cult - Thanksgiving UK

Reasons to be grateful to Tony Blair and New Labour (hat-tip to William Burroughs):

Thanks for the 'special relationship'

Thanks for extraordinary rendition

Thanks for the 10p tax threshold

Thanks for the Private Finance Initiative(from an idea by M.Thatcher)

Thanks for the carnage in Iraq & Afghanistan

Thanks for the failed privatisation of the Post Office

Thanks for trying (and failing) to exclude the Gurkhas

Thanks for ID Cards by the back door

Thanks for the surveillance society

Thanks for schmoozing the bankers for years

Thanks for cash for honours

Thanks for Fred the Shred (Knighted by you)

Thanks, finally, to you and Brown for cleaning up British politics as you promised in 1997.

Iran - New Low for New Labour

Another low for New Labour in allowing the returning hostages to cash in and demeaning the whole military in the process. Watch out for Faye Turley turning up on Celebrity Big Brother later in the year. Maybe Ant and Dec could do a Summer Special of 'I'm a Soldier in Afghanistan - Get Me Out of Here'. A hundred grand for the winner or a lifetime pass to Tessa Jowell's Super Casino.