Sir Ian Blair Gets the Chairman's Vote of Confidence

Yesterday, Charles Clarke gave Sir Ian Blair a vote of confidence. So that means he'll go sometime in the near future, when he does some small misdemeanour.

After all, isn't football, the model by which all politician's live their lives now.

But seriously, I have believed that right from the start of the Menezes affair, that he should go. Now that he admits in the papers this morning that he didn't know for 24 hours, that his special shoot-to-kill squad had killed an innocent man, he must be held guilty for the faulty chain of command that let to the tragic death.

It was his chain of command.

So the buck stops with Sir Ian Blair and he must go.