Today that pixie-faced, shallow actor - a man of moderate intellect and faultless political instinct - will make a speech setting out his and his government’s position, one week and two days on from the London attacks.  It will concentrate, I think, in three areas: security, community action and “big politics”.

The police response thusfar has been quite amazing.  Scotland Yard and MI5 have barged through the investigation at a pace I, for one, have never witnessed in a major investigation.  Equally impressive, the world’s press has been apprised of every new lead, every breakthrough with remarkable and commendable speed.  That, I suppose, has more to do with the nature of a case in which the prime suspects are not going to face trial.  But it has allowed the public focus to shift very early on in the course of events to the wider issues of Islamic fundamentalism and multiculturalism.  That positively encourages a holistic, political approach to be taken.  It is pretty clear that Blair’s will be characteristically opportunistic and two-fold:-

a) Islam is a religion of peace and is not truly reflected in the ideology of Sayyed Qutb or his latter-day martyrs.  Therefore the peaceful Moslem “community” must itself root out those in its midst who wander from the true path into the AQ cult of death - or commend others to do so.

b) Young “Britons” brainwashed into the aforementioned cult of death are also the victims of a failed government policy of multiculturalism.  Political initiatives must now be generated to wind down the Multi-Cult and replicate “The London Experience” country-wide.

Well, (a) amounts to a generational contest.  Time is on the wrong side.  The Moslem religious and political establishment must make the young think as they do, or the consolations of their hierarchical status will end.  But they must do so against a background of the War on Terror - a War on Islam to the young.  They may have the effect of suppressing radical sentiments.  But that isn’t the same thing as driving them out.

I admit that I have no wish to know Pakistanis so well that I can safely predict which way this one will go.  We may not find out at all for a long number of years, though we will certainly be daily told much of the wonders of peaceful Islam and of our two million dear friends in Bradford, Oldham, Leeds, Leicester, Luton et al - all Britons just like us.

For the English, then, the truth of things will be hermetically sealed away.  But we will get to carry the can for young Moslem “alienation” and anything else that can possibly be hung around our necks.  We should expect more anti-racism, more guilt.  It is, after all, race replacement, and our establishment is firmly on the Moslem’s side.

Meanwhile, (b) pressages the heady, endless cultural joy of black men shafting white women and happy, happy Smartie-coloured neighbourhoods just like on Eastenders.  London is the cultural marxist anti-racists’ wet dream, though they are guilty of the gravest hubris.  The English of London - I am one - don’t love what has become of their city.  No matter how often aliens, Livingstonian marxists and their fellow travellers repeat the mantra that London is a wonderfully exciting City for the World, enriched by its diversity, a lie remains a lie.

But today Assimilationists such as Trevor Phillips have the upper hand.  These people assume that the past encouragement of immigrant communities, implicit in official multiculturalism, to cleave to their own kind, to ghettoise and, in the Moslem case, to reject Western “values”, can be re-calibrated.  Government diktat will suffice for Britain to be rendered unto a Salad Bowl!

For sure, assimilation will have a different and non-cultural focus from multiculturalism.  It won’t be our culture that is assaulted.  It will be our physical environments and, indeed, our daily lives.

This ignores human nature, of course, and any suggestion that IQ has something to do with the lowly economic outcomes of Pakistanis in my country.  But, the push for assimilation starts today, when Blair stands up to speak.  Ultimately, it will generate a further loading of racial stress on the English.  For we, too, have found some little solace, some protection while immigrants gathered together in their national and religious groupings.  A serious attempt to open our society further to aliens may - may - produce an interesting cleavage among us.  It depends where the bar for tolerance rests.  As an Englishman I honestly don’t know the answer to that.  Some, certainly, will be more tolerant, more “elastic” in this regard than others.  Some, certainly, will accept “the inevitable” and think of other things.  But not all, of course.  “English = elastic” is not really a serious way of thinking of us.  It is wishful thinking.

I have not the slightest doubt that Blair and Co have never seriously considered the limits to English tolerance, and probably cannot do so for ideological reasons.  By diktat English elasticity must not have an end point ... or the grotesque marxian process of ending the English in England may itself end with something entirely unexpected!

Let us hope so.