I think party members would like a clear sense of direction. The government and the party seem to be in a sort of muddle at the moment.

The sense that Tony Blair is distancing himself from his party is even more acute than in the past, and I am sure they would like a timetable for giving way to someone else, probably (Chancellor) Gordon Brown.

To comply with that direction, the state party began a policy of only posting the first few paragraphs of AP stories, while making sure to clearly mark them as excerpts on the site. The state party does not use this excerpting policy with stories from any other news outlet. It would be happy to post AP stories in full on its Web site, and would have, had it not been instructed otherwise by The Associated Press.

This is a good step in that direction.

The changes have been made to strengthen the party and for the smooth working of the government,

The government is afraid of any organizing by its citizens -- they prefer we just take our orders from the Party.