I had to laugh when Blair invited the usual bunch of Class A drug users, car thieves and cat burglars round to Number 10 for a couple of Special Brews. I understand that teams of Millbankers were on hand to cut the "Party Line" for anyone prepared to snort it.
Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against the rock and roll lifestyle - just can't afford it mate. What's bizarre is where all this fits in with the hard line on young offenders. I can just imagine Jack Straw lurking in a corner itching to affect a citizens arrest on Noel Gallagher.
With that ludicrous tosser David Mellor appointed by a Labour Government to head the Football Task Force anything is possible. Liam Gallagher's appointment as the Drugs' Tsar is surely imminent - far out man!
Some people have commented on the fact that no trade union leaders made it onto the guest list for the Downing Street soiree. Not true. Christine Hancock from the scab Royal College of Nursing was there, which is no real surprise when you take into account the fact that the RCN is to effective NHS trade unionism what Ann Widdecombe is to free love.
All of this highly significant in terms of the Mod's plans for the union/Labour link. With Blair apparently prepared to crawl a hundred miles over broken glass to be photographed with any spivvy, union-busting "entrepreneur" he can find, the contrast with his reluctance to even enter the same room as a bona fide union leader is crystal clear.
So what are the Brothers and Sisters who fill the trade union seats on Labour's NEC doing about this orchestrated piss-taking? I'll tell you what they're doing, they're preparing the ground to vote themselves out of the Party structure.
The NEC vote on Party into Power proves this conclusively, with not a single union member prepared to join Dennis Skinner in voting against this poisonous package. Those trade unionists who tell you that Party into Power is not a staging post in the long march to dumping the link are the industrial equivalent of the Flat Earth Society.
It's a crazy upside-down world when the union at the forefront of opposing the Blairites' campaign to effectively dissolve the Labour Party from within is the AEU, but credit where it's due. The truth is that it shows us where the alliances need to be formed if we are to beat off the imminent attempt to ditch the link.
The opposition to the central thrust of Blairism runs deep in the ranks of the labour movement and it also spans across from left to right. Hattersley's persistent campaign for tax rises to fund public expenditure initiative deserves our support and will gain momentum as the cuts in front line services begin to bite this winter.
The solution does not lie in backing opportunist SWP-orchestrated lobbies of the Labour Party Conference. I for one am sick and tired of being lectured about the need to defend the Labour/union link by members of other political parties who've deliberately chosen to opt out of the struggle.
The cracks in New Labour's carefully applied make up are deepening by the day and the task for socialists and trade unionists in the Party is to stick together as the cleaners move in to fumigate the honeymoon suite.
Our campaign for an alternative vision of what this Government with its massive majority could actually deliver for our people will snowball over the next 12 months as long as we stick with it.