Labour grows a backbone

Something is going on - this is starting to look carefully orchestrated.

First Jack Straw

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5411954.stm

Then Ann Cryer and Shahid Malik

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/07/nveil07.xml

Then Gordon Brown!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6036377.stm

Trevor Phillips!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6040016.stm

Now Harriet Harman!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6040016.stm

Phil Woolas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/6050392.stm

This cannot be a coincidence. GB's future cabinet is forming around an anti-Islamist agenda while the Tories and Lib Dems (!) are still in appeasement mode.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5411954.stm

If this is a strategy then it is a very daring one - and despite vowing never to vote Labour again, I'm starting to think that maybe I could after all.