Gordy's Macbeth moment

As pressure mounts on Blair and the minnows have traded their jobs for 5 minutes of fame it is time for Gordon Brown to make his decision. Should he strike now or wait it out?

Of all the political commentators who have tried to guess what Brown is thinking, I feel Bill Shakespeare has it best:

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.