Sir Ian Blair's fingertips must be bleeding, he's clinging on to his job so desperately. What I don't understand is why top level government ministers keep on feeling the need to protect him.
Even if he personally had done nothing wrong, he appears to not to have grasped the concept that you can delegate actions but not repsonsibilities. He's at the top, all the orders are his, and he should know how well they are being carried out. If things go wrong and no one else is to blame, then he is. Systems failures are down to him because they are his systems.
But he did personally do wrong. When an innocent man was lying dead with multiple bullets in his head, he treated the family as a nuisance rather than as people who had a right to be angry and expect a grovelling apology and vast compensation. He impeded the investigation iinto the killing. He defended the actions of gunmen who were obviously out of control and in need of retraining (last I knew, one bullet to the brain was enough to disable anyone).
And now he is showing he is entirely without honour in not resigning.
Actually, he's just like the New Labour Government. No wonder they love him (that and their being in the bed with the Police anyway, what with their wish to make this a Police State).
