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Well, I'm still undecided on how Cameron will actually pan out, but have to agree that he is somewhat Blair-like in his approach. But the fact that he has been the one to re-establish the Tories as a viable opposition must count for soemthing, and probably goes to prove the old addage that you need to fight fire with fire.

Editting to add: IMO there's more to the failure of preventing 7/7 than meets the eye. I would have expected MI5, by the very virtue of its name, to attack any directive with the military precision that the British forces have demonstrated in their operations in the past. The fact that they haven't suggests that they are under-resourced - both in numbers and with personnel in the right places with the appropriate skills. However, this is symptomatic of a government (and probably preceding governments as well) who are happy to make sweeping statements about the programmes they will initiate to appease their electorate, but who have no idea of the implications of same in terms of manpower and procedures and therefore fail to make the necessary resources (essentially funding) available to permit their plans to have even half a chance of success. Either that, or they have a hidden agenda - something I would not discount given the evidence of past shenanigans. Sadly, with this government, we have seen this approach repeated across one government department to another.