Huh?

Not that I'm a big fan of Blair, but I wonder why 90 days seemed like too long to the MP's?

"British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has rejected demands for his resignation following a shocking parliamentary defeat over a controversial terror legislation, even as the media today said it could be the 'beginning of the end' of the three-time premier's reign.

Within hours of 49 Labour rebels joining the Opposition to inflict on Blair his first defeat in the House of Commons since he took office in 1997 and Conservative leader Michael Howard, asking him to consider his position, a defiant Blair said 'I don't think it is a matter of my authority - of course I would have preferred to have won rather than lost.'

Defending his decision to back the proposal, the Labour Prime Minister said the police had told him the case for holding terror suspects on 90-day detention without charge was 'vital' and 'compelling'.

Blair said it was his 'duty to put the plan before MPs and it had been their right to vote against it,' but insisted that 'it was a wrong decision (to vote against the proposal)'.

'I just hope in a longer time we don't rue it,' he warned.

Blair said people would think it was 'very odd' that given the advice of the police and security services, MPs had 'decided to ignore their recommendation.'

Instead they had voted for a 28-day detention limited which 'they have thought of themselves without any particular justification,' he told the BBC."