Stepping the change - Bridging the gap - Spooks flee as Gorbals Johnny grabs power

The world of corsetry was shaken to its foundations last night with the news that Lord Patel's friend and epistolary lover of many years , pal and fellow graduate of Lady Margaret Hall, the beautiful Dame Pauline Neville - Jones, Eliza Manningham Buller (58 - 33 of them as a spook) the "M" in MI5 is handing in her lunch pail. She will be remembered principally for having (at the insistence of Lord Patel ) introduced the MI5 website - and in a very real sense our alert CRITICAL warning is a daily reminder of her to all our readers and especially by Lord Patel of very fond (but no too distant) memories.

This is a small part of the fall out in Whitehall in the maniacal grab for power by the crazed Scots Home Secretary John Reid under the guise of "tackling terrorism". A national security ministry based on the lines of Hitler's 1933 putsch of the State and judiciary is under way - which is the buzz of the queue at the squash Court under the Purple Palace at Vauxhall Bridge as Mr Scarlett raises a bleak smile and extends his Empire yet further.

A department with yet another Scots Cabinet minister responsible will "bridge the gap" between the Foreign Office, the Home Office, the security agencies and the Ministry of Defence in meeting the non existent and fantasist threat from al-Qaida.

A "radical step change" is the result of a report into the totally spurious August "plot" on blowing up the world's supply of airliners by a teenager in High Wycombe armed with some hair care products and his plastic sandwich box.

Eyes rapidly revolving, the hard man of the Stirling Communist League, John Reid, babbled to MP's about global threats transcending foreign affairs, defence or domestic affairs ... getting into gear he accelerated into ...... "It therefore needs a seamless, integrated, driven and politically overseen counter-terrorism strategy which places at its heart the recognition that above all that this is a battle for ideas and values,"

The review sets out not only the changes in the terror laws that are needed but also the doctrines and capabilities needed to counter radicalisation in Britain and abroad. "This goes way beyond legislation," said Mr Reid mysteriously and with evident sinister intent as can only be adduced by the addition of a Gorbals kiss.

The Gubment will introduce an anti-terror bill next month on a very tight timetable and Mr Reid hinted to MPs that he was looking in detail at proposals to introduce a new power to question terror suspects after they have been charged and losing the 28 day to 90 detention idea and using intercept evidence.

What Reid quickly wants to do, is consolidate his power whilst apparently maintaining a posture of legality throughout, and this new legislation will provide a combination of the1934 post Reichstag Reichstagsbrandverordnung or Decree for the Protection of People and State and the Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk or Enabling Act of the following year. Which is why he has dropped the plans to extend from 28 days to 90 days for dentention and the use of surveillance intercepts in courts. These will become superfluous under new anti-democratic legislation which will be rammed through with a supine Tony Blair hounded by scandal and Brown by inertia watch it happen.

Remember on the 10th December John Reid said in a TV interview that a "terrorist atrocity by Islamic extremists in the UK over the Christmas period is highly likely", John Reid claimed yesterday and emindedMP's that 30 'major' conspiracies were currently being monitored by the security services.

The battle against terror said the Home Secretary would continue for “longer than a generation.”

Staff at Rigby and Peller "buying lingerie is one of the most romantic things you can do for the lady in your life " , have already set up a fund to provide Eliza with a token of their esteem (and they trust continued custom) to which members of the public are invited to contribute.

You think Lord Patel is burbling on ... You ain't seen nuthin' yet folks !

above all that this is a battle for ideas and values

also the doctrines and capabilities needed to counter radicalisation in Britain and abroad

This is either Star Wars fantasist talk, the stuff of juvenile debates - to be dismissed out of hand, or the most dangerous and sinister ravings of a truly power hungry lunatic.