<b></b><p></p><p><b><b>Robert Jones argues that Tony Blair will need to take great care in the war against planning inefficiencies if he is not to face a somewhat crushing defeat</b></b><br><b>As I write this in mid-November, Birmingham International Conference Centre is full of the sounds of war as the Confederation of British Industry meets. The enemy, clearly identified by the CBI itself and by visiting ministers, is the planning system, characterised as slow, arbitrary and one of the remaining forces of darkness in New Labour&amp;’s remorseless push for modernisation. </b><br><b>The troops are being marshalled by General Lord Falconer fresh from the killing fields of the Dome. Make no mistake though, this putsch is being lead unmistakably by our Prime Minister himself who, gung-ho from bombing the Afghans into submission, has turned his fire on civic planners.</b><br><b><b>A history lesson</b></b><br> Before the sounds of war transmute little by little into the mournful sounds of an army retreating step by step, I hope both the Prime Minister and Lord Falconer will allow me to give them a little history lesson. The subject is the little known Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside, an American civil war general. Burnside fancied himself a master tactician and with a massive …