Has Brown's Britain any purpose?

What a day! Chaos continues at Heathrow Terminal 5 for British Airways and the Spanish owned British Airports Authority, while in Basra British troops remain inactive as warfare swirls around them, read here , from Reuters. At least Land Rover and Jaguar will soon be safely(?) in Indian ownership - a triumph of British automotive ingenuity as reported by the propaganda mouthpiece the once impartial British Broadcasting Corporation.