British DUers: Is there a plot within Labour to ditch Blair?

[displacedyankeedem]

I know a lot of Labor MPs voted against the Iraq war. I know that Foreign Minister Robin Cook resigned over it. So my questions are:

1. Is there a group of Labour politicians who see Blair as a hinderance to keeping a majority in Parliament?
2. If yes to 1, who's the leader? Robin Cook? Gordon Brown?
3. Will Blair survive?

[burrowowl]

1. Go to smirkingchimp.com

and read comments by Kwando and Shadowthief for good analysis

[truthspeaker]

2. please?

pretty please? I hate to see him get away with his bullshit because there are no credible alternatives.

[T_i_B]

3. If there is...

Then it's not making much impact. One or two people such as Cook and Short criticize Blair but it's not really organized enough to mount a serious challenge to the millbank tendency that runs "new" labour these days.

[truthspeaker]

4. the tuition fee rebels seem to have something going

They were 5 votes away from handing Bliar an embarassing defeat on the second reading of the tuition fees bill. Seems to me if they could get together with the anti-Iraq-war rebels (I'm sure there's a lot of overlap) they could exert some pressure.

[T_i_B]

5. They are essentially the same people

as the anti-war rebels. However, they are not influential enough to get any sort of pressure put on Blair to leave office. The Labour party still seems to think it owes Blair for its two landslides in 1997 and 2001.