Blair is on the way out...

The incompetent head of the Metropolitan Police Force is in trouble again.

Sir Ian Blair's deputy and the man who hopes to succeed him, Paul Stephenson, has been forced to write a letter of support for his beleaguered boss after Blair wrote him a letter accusing him of disloyalty.

Stephenson had agreed to forgo his annual bonus forcing his boss to give up his own £25,000 payout.

Now London's mayor Ken Livingstone has come out in support of Ian Blair. He said: "Politicians are skulking around in plots against the Commissioner, and by extension the Met as a whole, while crime in London is falling and police numbers are at record levels."

Hmmm, wasn't Blair supposed to be New Labour's favourite policeman? Now he has the odious Livingstone on his side. I give him till Christmas...