h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Britain is in an intractable bind.

The Prime Minister won't do the decent thing and resign. His party won't bring him down, because there's no way to excuse a second unelected PM in a single parliamentary term. The General Election that Brown's fall would precipitate could only speed Labour's inevitable massacre at the ballot box. There is no apparent answer to this desperate problem.

I can think of one, though. There is one man who could replace Brown without necessitating an election. He's the guy we elected in the first place, so how could anyone object? I bet he would quite enjoy putting it up Gordon too.

OK, you might say that it would take a pretty dire set of circumstances to bring Blair back. I completely agree with you. Only maybe having a leering sociopath with autistic tendencies draining the hope and reputation of a nation might just possibly constitute those circumstances.

Blair has his faults, but some of the more profound ones might have been resolved by world changes. I rather suspect that Tone would suck up to any God-bothering US President, even if they weren't actually engaging in Holy War. Being an Obama puppet probably wouldn't be so bad. And anyway, couldn't we do with a centre-right politician who's not yet wedded to a xenophobic foreign policy?