Yet another source of Mr Blair's self-confidence is a feeling that Britain could play a pivotal role in Europe's complex structure of cross-border defence relationships.
So whatever emerges from Southern Cross's crisis must surely be a business whose basic structure is far more robust, where there is no doubt about it's ability to cope in bad times as well as good.
Using cross links within the foam's particle arrangement, regardless of how much the structure is compressed, it'll spring back to the predesigned shape.