You are going to miss him when he is gone.  Blair was a brilliant political strategist and media operator.  The New Labour project was a disciplined organisational takeover of a failed political party.

Labour will revert to losing elections and ill-disciplined internal warfare.  When government whips can call for the leader to go, but do not themselves do the honourable thing and resign, you know the power of the PM is gone.

So here is my suggestion for a defiant PM's speech, and I do have some experience of writing this sort of thing...

Walter Wolfgang, the 82-year-old Labour party activist ejected from last year's Brighton conference for daring to shout "Nonsense!" during Jack Straw's speech, stands a fighting chance of winning a seat on the NEC.

Tim Allan's Portland PR is under attack from the GMB for assisting ASDA in it's aggressive union busting strategy.  Nick Brown is leading a parliamentary crusade against Portland by trying to expose the firm's links to government ministers.

21 questions from Labour MPs in two months must be some kind of record.

http://theyworkforyou.com/search/?s=portland+pr

Tim Allan is of course a Downing Street favourite and Alastair Campbell's former deputy.  Fascinating.

When Alex Hilton invited me to post on here it reminded me of when Alastair Campbell was invited  by a newspaper to give the Tories some advice on presentation, except Alastair got paid for his thoughts.