From Holden:

It’s hard out here for a Poodle.

The alliance between George Bush and Tony Blair is in danger after it was revealed that the Prime Minister believes the President has ‘let him down badly’ over the Middle East crisis.

A senior Downing Street source said that, privately, Mr Blair broadly agrees with John Prescott, who said Mr Bush’s record on the issue was ‘crap’.

The source said: “We all feel badly let down by Bush. We thought we had persuaded him to take the Israel-Palestine situation seriously, but we were wrong. How can anyone have faith in a man of such low intellect?”

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The rift between No10 and the White House stems from British anger that Mr Bush failed to do enough to pursue the ‘road map’ to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, which he approved, at Mr Blair’s instigation, on the eve of the Iraq war.

“We have been banging on at them for three years about the need to address the Palestinian problem but they just won’t engage,” said a senior Government insider. “That is one of the reasons there is such a mess now.”