None of the above.

Tony Benn provocatively said that the five questions leaders must be asked are: "What power do you have? where is your power from? in whose interest is it exercised? to whom are you accountable? and how do we get rid of you?"

In these days of the overdue and now thankfully generally waning popularity of Tony Blair, whose party was given power to form a government despite only attracting a third of the vote, we know the answer to the first two questions.

The answer to the third is increasingly obviously not 'the British people'. Misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to depress the nation, the result of a foreign policy of subservience to and unquestioning support for American parochial interests; mute disengagement over the callous invasion of Lebanon; public services increasingly a bitter and incompetent joke. On the home front, lawlessness, lack of education and a rationed health service for which we pay too much make for further depression.

To the fourth, the answer seems to be 'to nobody outside a self-perpetuating clique', despite many loud protests to the contrary. Propaganda has taken the place of action.

To the last, 'you cannot, you were not consulted about his appointment and you cannot dismiss him'.

Democracy in action? Nothing like it!