Blair can do a little bit more to bring people on board. But they've already watered it down so totally that it almost doesn't reform anything. |
Right now, it looks as if 60 may vote against. If they could get that down to 40, it wouldn't be so embarrassing to Blair. |
They've escaped relatively unharmed. We are where we were a week ago. They haven't made things worse, but they're still in a hole. The big one is still coming up. |
When leaders change, you get a short-term honeymoon, and then all hell breaks loose. The members of Parliament who have rebelled now are not going to stop. |