Followers of my blog will have seen the NHS question about how many reorganisations have we had. We've yet another. The number of PCTs (Primary Care Trusts) nationally is to halve. This means merging East and North. (and then probably HoB and south). It would be nice if people would stick with one structure. There is a quotation ( Which sadly does not appear to be a true quotation ) We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. But has to have been originated by someone. The web link shown goes through the derivation which appears to be more linked to an anonymous British Soldier WW2 than any Roman or Greek General called by a name perming 2 out of (Gaius, Galus, Petronius and Arbiter). From the...
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Where's that party got to now?
...except where it might affect their local vote, so is deemed suitable for local reasons in Edinburgh or Bristol.
Charlie Kennedy couldn't name one city where they want to bring in congestion charging. Can you?
First, read this report in Saturday's Guardian - "Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans".
Next, to find out how serious are the USA's plans to invade Iran, take a look at these articles, all from sane and authoritative commentators:
Scott Ritter article (Al Jazeera, 30 March 2005)
Scott Ritter speech (18 February 2005)
Dan Plesch article (Open Democracy, 21 March 2005)
Seymour Hersch article (New Yorker, 24 January 2005)
If, having read these, you want to do something about it, support the Our World Our Say campaign, which aims to extract commitments from all the party leaders that they would not support a new war.
Memo to Bob Piper: If Blair refuses to disassociate himself from Bush's next move, he may win this election but, when the tanks roll in, his 'popularity rating' will go right down the toilet.
However, asking a PM (any PM) to rule out future military action isn't ever likely to get a definite answer. He has no way of knowing what events lie around the corner that might possibly justify action against Iran, but as things currently stand, whatever Shrub might do in Iran will not involve British forces.