Labour has lost control of Britain
Picture by Roger Marks, some rights reserved Earlier this week, the Government published " Building Britain's Future ", a proposal document full of policies (and seen by many as an early election manifesto) which could at best be described as ambitious - and at worst as pie-in-the-sky nonsense. On Tuesday, was revealed that they have abandoned plans to introduce a compulsory ID Card scheme. Today, the Government has lost another vote in the Commons, admitted that it's plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail have been scrapped, and took back control of the East Coast Mainline . It can't even make a Sir into a Lord without hitting problems. Gordon Brown's Government survived the very public expenses scandal, a spate of Cabinet resignations and - to an extent - the worst of the recession: it survived the knives in the back; it surely cannot avoid death from a thousand cuts.