She was a whole lot more weaselly than that when Evan Davies asked her this morning.

Ah, I must have mis-read. So what does her threat to quit the front bench even mean? She wants to protest but not lose her privileges? I guess she's just had enough of white people playing Divide and Rule.

We're getting the band back together.

TBH I no longer know which portfolio she shadows, so I seriously doubt she'd be missed much at the dispatch box. Although by all accounts she does work hard in her constituency

She should stick to cozying up to Portillo on This Week

Simple, it's nothing to do with us, leave it.

On a mission from God?

So, Call Me Dave and 14 pints were all geared up for their Dr Strangelove moment, Parliament recalled to rubber-stamp their attack on Syria, until a phone conversation with Miliband at 5.15pm. The Labour leader said he would not give carte blanche approval for military intervention until the UN inspectors had at least reported back.

Rug pulled from underneath him, Cameron reverts to type and throws a hissy fit with No 10 and the Foreign Office describing Miliband as rl"a f****** c*** and a copper-bottomed s***"rl

In one afternoon, Miliband has shown more statesmanship than Cameron has displayed all Summer. Suddenly Cameron goes from his Churchill moment to a sad parody of Anthony Eden

If Ed can keep his head in this afternoon's debate, it should make interesting viewing/listening

Indeed.
We must also remember that there are factions involved who would easily turn upon each other once Assad had been deposed, it's not just one side against another.
e.g. Do we really want to side with or assist Al Quaeda against Assad?

The Speaker of the Syrian Parliament has written to John Bercow to the effect that Syria will sue those responsible in British courts if the UK attacks.

Assad may have no defence to our Cruise missiles, but given that we would be unlikely to have any defence to such a claim (that i can think of) if any strike was not mandated by the UN, that could be a fair few bob for the beleaguered UK taxpayer to find I should think.

If we attack Syria that's the Tory party added to the list of a party I'll never vote for joining Labour and the BNP.

What I find scary is despite the hard lessons of Iraq etc. I get the impression that had it not been for Miliband we and the US would probably have already fired a few squillion quids of gear at the Syrians. To "send a signal".

Wouldn't, say, a fax be both cheaper and clearer?

If it has to be signals, couldn't they do those big flashy light things off the battleships?

Why do our signals need to be a big fukoff bang, inevitably instantly killing and maiming a whole bunch of assorted Syrians in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Cobblers.

"Intelligence" hasn't told Miliband or Cameron who perpetrated the attack (source : D.Cameron - in Parliament ten minutes ago, he says it's a question of judgement about who did it).
"Intelligence" has yet to determine even what chemical was involved.

The advice on legality has changed from day-to-day, what the UK government had thought on Tuesday night (i.e. it would be legal to strike at the regime) had changed by Wednesday morning (erm, it might not be).

Miliband has said all along that without legality he wouldn't vote for anything.