I think that there should be an inquirey into why the Tories jump on to any bandwagon and political stunt going so long as it appears to support the views of the public, fuelled by the media.

Do they have any honest opinions of their own other than turning over the ban on fox hunting when they get back in to power? (pathetic David). I think that one definite policy alone and the constant weedy opportunism sums up all we need to know about Camerons conservatives. New Conservative, old hypocrisy, old opportunism. oh dear.

They remain, unsurprisingly, shameless. No change there then.

Malcolm Reed, Tunbridge Wells,

Mr Blair rejects calls for an independant enquiry as to allow one would distract the security services during a time of intense activity.
Wasn't that exactly the same phrase that Ian Blair used when he tried to stop an IPC enquiry into the shooting of Jean Charles DeMenez?

A. Williamson, London, UK

Of course we need/want/deserve an independent inquiry......Of course we won't get one, but don't be a hypocrite. If the Tories had been in power at the time and your good self Home Secretary, we still wouldn't get one!!
It doesn't matter who you vote for....The Government always gets in!!

TERRY FREEMAN, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND

Frankly, I worry more about the huge amount of information given out my the media about the activities and methods used by our surveillance teams - that future terrorists will now know exactly how to avoid detection as they go about planning and executing their next atrocity.

sean dunne, louth,

Let’s face it; the security services are a can of worms. In a covert environment anything goes that you can get away with, so that you can get away with anything that doesn’t run counter to whatever body has oversight, and their connivance can merely be tacit. You are never going to expose this level of operation by any enquiry, but if we have real security problems in this country they will be of that nature. MI6 dwarfs all these hill-billy organisations, like Al-Quaeda, in subversive operations, both in manpower, finance, and influence. It follows that if we are getting terrorists threats in this country, they can be seen as the response to MI6 operations elsewhere in the world. There is not a lot of point in getting over-excited about terrorist operations in this country if they are a function of MI6 operations abroad - and who is to say that they aren’t?. You either cut down on MI6 or you put up with them.

Henry Percy, London, UK

The fist casualty of war is truth. When some idiot politician dubbed this scenario a war he played into the hands of the liars.

Hang on - politician, liar - isn't that a synonym?

KR, Stockport,

Five will get you ten that a government that won't allow an independent inquiry is a government that would be embarrassed, not by the blunders you list, but by some issue or issue that you don't list.

This could be as benign as an ongoing security project that needs to be kept quiet, or it could be as damaging as a revelation that the security services have been penetrated once again.

It's worth recalling that Soviet infiltration was revealed layer by layer, over several years, with third men, fourth men and fifth men uncovered in turn. Initial inquiries really don't get all the truth. One thing is certain, which is that this government doesn't want yet another brand-new scandal on its record. It prefers the scandals we already know about to slowly fade away.

jon livesey, Sunnyvale, CA/US

It seems incredible, does it not, that members of the 7/7 gang were thought to be travelling from Yorkshire to the South East and back on several occasions for a chit-chat about low-level fraud. The arrested bomb-makers talked on many occasions about supplementary attacks. As soon as arrests were made in March 2004 one expects that the MI5 team were then tasked to chase down possible related gangs. And we are expected to believe that they did not make the Yorkshire connection. I struggle to accept this. An inquiry is needed to examine the extent to which MI5 (or related intelligence services) undertook surveillance of the 7/7 gang after March 2004.

This is a profoundly important issue because it is indicative that this type of terrorism may be fulfilling the role of a 'full order book' for the intelligence community and the judiciary (look at the investigation and court costs for evidence of this). We need to be assured that we can win this struggle and the end is in sight.

Charles, London, England

The security services clearly need even more funding for operations and manpower than they have at present. The country neeeds to wake up to the fact that the frontline of the war is here, not in Afghanistan, and the enemy, sadly, are deranged Britons who imagine that terror advances their cause.

michael clarke, london, uk

Reid on TV yesterday said the police were to be congratulated on a job well done - yes, I know he wasn't Home Sec. at the time but he is defending the office who's behaviour has been indefensible.
If I were a family member of the victims I would be looking to sue the Home office mandarin/s responsible and the police and the desk bound incompetents who run it all. An open full and unrestricted indedendent public enquiry is the very least we can expect. Then the goverment can step in with the usual bucket of whitewash.

Victor Cowen, Malaga, Spain

They still don't know how many illegals there are or who they are. The only way to sort it out is to stop all immigration and force everyone else to carry ID cards with random stop and search available all the time. If you don't like it, stop screaming about it and leave. I live in France and if my car is stopped I have to produve my ID, car log book and insurance on the spot. If I do not have it, I get an immediate fine. It is no problem at all.

m wilson, bidache, France

"Tell us the truth about those 7/7 blunders"

It seems by the headline that David Davies has already made up his mind.

David Dunn, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Just watching Paxman interviewing the Chairman(Murphy) about the last inquiry tells us that an independant inquiry is paramount to the future of British intelligence.
We are told ad nauseum by John Reid of the threat posed and yet again in this governments history the people who make the mistakes in high office will escape censure!!

lovett, malaga, spain