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Blair Is On Sky News
Bemoaning why Labour lost last Thursday, he speaks very staccato, why doesn’t he just slither away , he’s a has been who should stand trial at The Hague for war crimes, the bloke makes my teeth itch!
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"ich: "Although it is worth pointing out that the result shows how divided the UK as a whole is" - err they just gave one side a thumping majority ich. Face it Brexit is getting done. "
That comment illustrates why I made my half-serious remark about "one-nation" Conservatism a la Johnson meaning "England"
The issue isn't about whether "Brexit gets done" but how does the PM manage the fact that Scotland and N Ireland have nonetheless gone very different directions at the recent election.
That comment illustrates why I made my half-serious remark about "one-nation" Conservatism a la Johnson meaning "England"
The issue isn't about whether "Brexit gets done" but how does the PM manage the fact that Scotland and N Ireland have nonetheless gone very different directions at the recent election.
I have always condemned Tony Blair as yesterday's man with blood on his hands, which he will always be but …
On this occasion he as the right to air his views, as the last Labour Prime Minister - and he is absolutely right in his damning of Corbyn and his policies.
Rarely have I listened to Mr Blair, certainly since he left office, and found him anything less that patronising and self-serving, but his speech absolutely nailed the reason why Labour lost, and why they will lose again and again.
The new candidates are shaping up to replace Corbyn, and to a person, they have been strangely silent in their condemnation of Corbyn.
Why?
Simple - the electorate think Corbyn is an extremist idiot, which he is, but the Labour Party thought, and still thinks, he is wonderful, and his policies were correct.
And who will elect the new Leader?
Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss, as Pete Townsend once said.
On this occasion he as the right to air his views, as the last Labour Prime Minister - and he is absolutely right in his damning of Corbyn and his policies.
Rarely have I listened to Mr Blair, certainly since he left office, and found him anything less that patronising and self-serving, but his speech absolutely nailed the reason why Labour lost, and why they will lose again and again.
The new candidates are shaping up to replace Corbyn, and to a person, they have been strangely silent in their condemnation of Corbyn.
Why?
Simple - the electorate think Corbyn is an extremist idiot, which he is, but the Labour Party thought, and still thinks, he is wonderful, and his policies were correct.
And who will elect the new Leader?
Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss, as Pete Townsend once said.
I believe - as others have stated - that Labour's problems like with the powers that be, and their willingness to pursue a concept of what they think Labour ought to be, as evidenced in their manifesto, rather than what might get Labour elected, which is a very long way from that manifesto.
The Party, which elected and fully supports Jeremy Corbyn, and his version of the reasons for their loss, is obviously intent on electing someone who thinks the same way.
This willful need to ignore what the electorate has actually said, and why they have voted the way it has, speaks to the tunnel-visioned stubbornness of the elite, who seem more occupied with increasing the scope of their vision of socialism, and the need to offer policies which will attract enough voters to form a government, seems not to be an issue of any import at all.
As it stands, Labour are condemned to decades of irrelevance in British politics - it may take the retirement and demise of the current elite to occur before any new minds can actually engage with the notion of Parliament and genuine Opposition, and in the further future, Government, rather than sticking to their peculiarly cerebral notions of aims, which bear absolutely no relation to the real world in which their former supporters live.
The Party, which elected and fully supports Jeremy Corbyn, and his version of the reasons for their loss, is obviously intent on electing someone who thinks the same way.
This willful need to ignore what the electorate has actually said, and why they have voted the way it has, speaks to the tunnel-visioned stubbornness of the elite, who seem more occupied with increasing the scope of their vision of socialism, and the need to offer policies which will attract enough voters to form a government, seems not to be an issue of any import at all.
As it stands, Labour are condemned to decades of irrelevance in British politics - it may take the retirement and demise of the current elite to occur before any new minds can actually engage with the notion of Parliament and genuine Opposition, and in the further future, Government, rather than sticking to their peculiarly cerebral notions of aims, which bear absolutely no relation to the real world in which their former supporters live.
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