Poor Clare's Short of a party. I'd vote for her.

Tony warned them all not to tell the truth, or they would not be re-elected, but here is Clare deliberately showing them all up. So it's only a short while before she gets kicked out.

She has written in the Independent that she is to stand down as an MP after 23 years and accused Tony's personal creation, New Labour, of arrogance, a lack of principle and "incredible" incompetence.

In her article for yesterday, she said she was "profoundly ashamed" of the government, and that Tony Blair's "craven" support for the United States had made the world a more dangerous place.

Nothing new there, then, but she'll have to go, won't she? We can't have honest politicians publicly acknowledging their leaders to be charlatans.