Now I've seen everything.

One Sayeeda Warsi, a 'Vice-Chair' of the Conservative Party, stood outside 10 Downing Street this morning and said the Prime Minister should have cosy fireside chats with the organisations behind 7/7.

You read that right. It wasn't George Galloway saying that. It wasn't an article on the Grauniad's op-ed page. And it wasn't a representative of one of the Islamist groups. It was the Vice-Chair of the Conservative Party:

We must start engaging with, not agreeing with, the radical groups who we have said in the past are complete nutters. We need to bring these groups into the fold of the democratic process. As long as we exclude them and don't hear them out, we will allow them to continue their hate.

What is Michael Howard's view of this woman's demand? Where is the statement dressing her down, or better still sacking her? More to the point, what do the Davids standing for the leadership have to say?

Truly, when even the Conservative Party starts calling for 'engagement' with terror groups whose only agenda is the imposition of a worldwide Caliphate and the destruction of civilisation, the defence of the West is surely doomed.

Thank God we have a Prime Minister who understands what is at stake. And if this is what the Conservative Party believes - and in the absence of any contradiction of her view from the leader, that is what we must assume - pray it never gets near to power again.

(BTW, although as Chancellor this sort of thing is clearly not part of Gordon Brown's brief, it would be good to hear some similarly robust comments from him, echoing Mr Blair. Not least to dispel the suspicion that, after the PM steps down, it will be a very different story in No 10.)