It is said that a week is a long time in politics but a year's not long enough.

British Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has two years left before having to face the British electorate. Born and bred Tory that I am, I should not really be telling him where he should find success in focusing his wrath against extreme Islamists. Still, it is the season for generosity, Britain is greater than any one political party, and he's been having a tough time of it lately (what with the Tory resurgence, which promises much for Britain - alas, little for him - for 2010). 

All I ask is that Brown manages to achieve the following ten goals in 2008 - not hundreds of measures as some would ask for - just these ten measures which, long and short term, will likely make Britain a much safer place:

(*NB where I refer to Islamists and Islamism I am talking about the Muslim Brotherhood variety which so afflicts not just Britain but, alas, much of the planet - I am not referring to true, decent Muslims who happen to get involved in political activities)

1.      Stop talking to the Islamists

There are still in existence small, male-only groups, such as the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) which your ministers' departments deal with on a day-to-day basis, Mr Brown. These groups - full of men who are united in their goal - who masquerade as being "representative" of British Muslims and snipe at Britain wherever they can. They are not representative of British Muslims - they are part of an implacable Islamist enemy which seeks to subvert and infiltrate British life so that their tainted view of Islam eventually dominates amongst Muslims in Britain, and then dominates Britain.

Look again at ploughing £70 million into fighting extremism at a local level. Look into a recent £500,000 payment into a Birmingham mosque. Taxpayers' money is not the solution to ending extremism in Britain - getting rid of the so-called "representative" Muslim leadership is one hell of a start. Cut off their voice and begin to hear the voices of the peace-loving Sufis and the majority of Muslim women and you build a platform on which integration can begin. Right now you are simply blowing wind into the cultural Islamists' sails - read The Project (Muslim Brotherhood) every night so that each day a related decision needs to be taken your mind is fresh with their scheming and their lies reveal themselves as such to you.

2. Replace the "representative Muslim groups" with Muslim women

The MCB's response to Benazir Bhutto's death says it all: "the MCB utterly condemns the bombing which has killed a number of ordinary people as well as Ms. Bhutto". They just couldn't stand seeing a woman running the show.

Muslim extremism - run by men - treats women like chattel.

Not only does this run against British principles of equality between the sexes (for which great women strove for many years), there are a growing number of Muslim women in Britain who are not permitted to go out to work, are told not to integrate and many who suffer at the hands of the male-dominated ghettos they cannot escape. Please, I urge you, speak to activists like Gina Khan. There is plenty of revolution in the air at the grass-roots level, which needs both nurturing and a window to shine through as an example to the rest of the world. Britain can be first here in emancipating these exploited women - but they need a helping hand and you must get to them away from their men folk.

Be ground-breaking. Muslim women in Britain have been oppressed too long. It is time they were made the leaders and representatives of all British Muslims - male and female - and given a voice.

Cut off contact with the MCB and the MAB - as well as all the other manifestations of male-driven extreme Islamism in Britain - and back and appoint women to advise on Muslim matters. Tackle WAMY. Back these twenty-first century suffragettes and watch their men folk quiver and crumble, as their perverted, sexist ideologies get trampled and blocked out forever in your free Britain.

Give Bari's place on Remembrance Day to Gina Khan - out of respect for all the spent lives of those British Muslim soldiers who, like her, cared for freedom and for Britain first - not to Bari and the free-world-stabbing dinosaurs he represents.

Ask yourself against the background of the sound traditions you were brought up with - have you become so tolerant that you tolerate the intolerant?

3. Launch an investigation into abuse of local government

Certain councils - in the Midlands, North of England and in certain London Boroughs - are beholden to Islamists and, in some cases, friends of terrorists. Their corruption extends to some shocking abuses of their mandate - this includes facilitating proscribed entities, abuse of planning laws and corrupt placement of a variety of contracts.

Local Government has been targeted -particularly by Islamists - as a means of promoting Islamism. It is seen as a soft option - as you well know, Prime Minister, local politics are not the most popularly engaging pastime these days and most Britons can't be bothered with what goes on at the local level. Local government has been exploited. This marks the beginning of a dangerous trend and must be exposed now.

Where councils are shown to be corrupt, officials should be suspended until tried.

Infiltration by "cultural" Islamists (as opposed to Islamist terrorists) of British institutions has already occurred (yes, I am sure you were grateful for our exposing Abu Javaid at the Home Office a year ago). If you have the funds available, employ the investigators of local government to then investigate the police, the NHS, Charity Commission, airport security, the Post Office, House of Lords and specific areas of the BBC.

4.  Alongside MINAB (Mosques and Imams National Advisory Body)...

Adopt the French tactics with regard to mosques - as spelt out by Alain Marsaud. Alas, many of those linked to MINAB are the very same Islamists referred to in point 1 and cannot be trusted.

5. Ban Hizb ut Tahrir

Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain - marked recently by high profile defections - is imploding. Its leaders, by comparison, make David Ike seem plausible. There are those that say it doesn't need banning because superior, liberal, Western ideologies are ripping it apart anyway. These people are missing the point.

Hizb ut Tahrir Britain is the hub of a vile Islamist party with its tentacles in many countries. Britain represents the organisational, fundraising and virtual base for promoting its nonsensical, unrealistic Islamist caliphate all round the world.

The government has warned there is no point banning Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain without being sure of the evidence as the party may overturn the banning in British or European courts and this may put egg all over the face of the government.

The government's current view, Mr Brown, is a flawed one. While I appreciate the police have better things to do, an investigation into HT members' criminal activities in South London is all that is actually required to close the group down. The groups' private teaching on selling drugs to unbelievers, its leaflets and the recent uttering of some of its leaders constitute enough evidence to proceed with a ban.

Hizb ut Tahrir has been planning for an expected ban for a while now. In fact, one source revealed the party is focused in Britain on cultivating local power bases to help build party activities abroad rather than in Britain - that the party leadership sees its role in Britain now as a distraction while Islamists cause a lot more damage silently behind the scenes, for example through abuse of local government.

Ban Hizb ut Tahrir, Mr Brown, and keep an Islamist state abroad as a mere goal of these madcap Britain-haters.

6. Britain's Universities

There are students planted by Islamist groups in Britain's universities who never show up at courses - they are there merely to recruit. Universities - ask Professor Anthony Glees - are a hotbed of Islamist extremism in Britain.

Start fining universities who do not comply with government initiatives to stamp out radical Islamism on campus. Offer rewards to impoverished students to inform authorities about radical Islamist groups operating on campus. Credits for turning in suspicious individuals and professors sympathetic to Islamist extremism. After your government's introduction of student fees, it is not as if students don't need the money.

7. New courts for terrorists

Some, like the civil libertarians, have become so liberal that they stomach the fanatical Islamists. Even the best of them have shared platforms with the likes of Asim Qureshi - the Jekyll & Hyde who runs Stop Political Terror yet stands on a London street a year before 7/7 calling for jihad. Tragically, their tolerance - well meaning that these people generally are - has become our gaping weakness.

It would make sense to take terrorism cases out of the criminal law altogether, creating a special system of courts instead which have different rules of evidence and different standards of proof. Similar to the "Diplock Courts" which were used for more than two decades in Northern Ireland.

Operating a legal system in Britain calculated to acquit a large number of guilty defendants - as is the case across much of the free world - in order to make sure the number of innocent people convicted is minimised, makes much less sense when the costs of letting the guilty go free are terrorist outrages which kill hundreds.

The greatest peril of trying to amend criminal law (take the 90 days argument) is that it inevitably ends up changing law, not just as it applies to suspected terrorists, but as it applies to everyone. Isolating terror cases into a singular category of law would stop that happening and protect our freedoms.

This would not, as some claim, drive more Muslims into the arms of the extremists. There exists no evidence at all that mainstream, moderate Muslims come to believe that they should start plotting mass murder because of changes to the rules of evidence or the court procedure. Those who are dedicated to terrorism already are not going to be persuaded out of it because of a change in The Law.

8. Asylum & Islamist hotspots

Halt acceptance by Britain of asylum seekers from Islamist hotspots. Yes, Britain should be a safe haven for those genuinely seeking asylum, and, historically, Britain has played an admirable role in settling those who at the time really needed us.

Unfortunately, our generosity has gone too far on more than one occasion.

As you well know, on 21st July 2005, two weeks after the 7/7 Al Qaeda attacks on London, four young men attempted to blow themselves up on London's transport network but failed due to the poor consistency of their explosives. Muktar Said Ibrahim was the 'emir' - the leader of the 21/7 terror cell. He tried to attack the country that had given him refuge through asylum as a teenager from Eritrea. Ibrahim didn't fall into this - he been trained for jihad in Sudan and, at the end of 2004, in Pakistan.

Unlike the 7/7 bombers who were second generation immigrants, the 21/7 bombers largely came to the UK claiming asylum as children from the war zones of the Horn of Africa. Ibrahim's co-conspirator Osman falsely claimed asylum. He illegally got permission to stay in the UK by saying he was from Somalia. Ibrahim got British citizenship in 2004 after arriving from Eritrea as a child refugee. He got this even though he had convictions for indecent assault and robbery. Yassin Omar and Ramzi Mohammed, both from Somalia, had been given indefinite leave to remain in Britain - Mohammad was given permission to stay just three months before he tried to bomb London Underground.

We should stop accepting asylum seekers from states with Islamist insurgencies or Islamist governments. The Islamists are using the system as a means of entry. While our asylum system is still unfit for purpose, after decades of bureaucratic failure (and some corruption), the risk is just too great.

9. Other terrorists

Groups like the Tamil Tigers are getting away almost scot-free (no pun intended) with extortion rackets, with other criminality for fundraising and with causing an awful lot of pain to law-abiding British residents - because the police are, rightly, focused on the Islamist threat.

Terrorists mix with terrorists. That's how it's always been and that's how it will be in the future. They share training, procurement and other facilities together. The Tamil Tigers procuring Norwegian passports for Al Qaeda is an example you should pay heed to - but I'm sure this situation is already high up your list of things to do for 08.

Stamp out the other terrorists and the Islamist terror networks lose bed-partners - and will make more mistakes.

10. An invitation

Come with me and get fitted out in a burkha (you'll be recognised otherwise - no inference meant). Walk with me and my good friends in Ward End and other areas where street by street, block by block, Islamists are taking over. Hear some of the local preachers talk and listen to the kids' thoughts on Al Qaeda and the future. Look at the business directories the Islamists restrict whole areas to. Look at the building sites and speak to the recently arrived immigrants who live in the caravans on these sites, waiting to build mosques and Islamic centres for their extremist bosses.

Do not dismiss tackling these areas as merely kicking the political footballs of extremist parties like the BNP and the National Front. This is mainstream politics, Mr Brown, and you must see it with your own eyes and hear the voices of those within these areas (brave Muslims and non-Muslims) who know what is wrong (and all have plans on how to fix the problems when they are free to talk in private). Meet pub owners who are told to sell up or else - by gangs affiliated with mosques. Speak to the police who walk the streets and feel helpless. Have an adviser on benefit claimants show you the claimant peaks - which, put frankly, are shocking.

Integration is anathema in these parts. But integration is one of the pillars of Britain's success. Extreme Islamist ghettos in Britain? There's more to you than that, Prime Minister.

Happy New Year, Mr Brown.

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