Blair Is On Sky News

[Bobbisox1]

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!

[hereIam]

Can't stand him, but fear he's full of his own self importance.

[davebro]

Well at least his gov's economic policies weren't too outlandish & unacceptable. Problem was Blair concentrated on foreign policy & Brown on the economy. They might have done a better job if it had been the other way round!

[Bobbisox1]

He is and he did irreparable damage to this country with his open border policy ,he and his barrister wife who represents illegals at the tax payers expense , money is their God above all else

[Bobbisox1]

Didn’t like Brown either Dave

[ToraToraTora]

St Tony: //Mr Blair told an audience he was not criticising Mr Corbyn "as a person", but said the Labour leader's political ethos - which he described as "quasi-revolutionary socialism" - has "never appealed to traditional Labour voters" and "never will appeal".// - bang on, say what you like about his Tonyness he knew how to make Labour electable.

[Sqad]

For me, Blair will go down as one of the Labour's greatest politicians, as TTT said he moved the party to the centre and put them in a strong political situation.

The UK does not want left wing politics and even less left wing extreme politics and i feel that Labour will make the same mistake again in electing an extreme left wing leader and even worse....a woman.
Labour just does not have a Margaret Thatcher....plenty of Theresa Mays, but no Margaret Thatcher.

What price for a Tony Blair in the Labour Party now?

[Bobbisox1]

As long as it’s not him Sqad ;0/

[ToraToraTora]

yes sqad, I just don't think they get it. Even after getting thrashed several Labour MPs said they thought their policies were still popular! Jeez they cannot see that is a delusion. Their April was royally tanned and they still think their policies are popular!

[Old_Geezer]

No left wing party needs members who have mistaken them for a right wing party.

That aside, best not give him publicity here.

[naomi24]

I dislike him intensely, but at least he appears to understand why Labour was so thoroughly rejected, which is more than Corbyn and his motley crew do.

[ichkeria]

Tora is right (as is TB):why not listen to what the man is saying rather than the endless and rather daft Blairoplexies :-)
It can’t be good for your health!
A little more thought and a little less sounding off from all of us and I’m sure this could be a more interesting forum.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm finding AB very enjoyable at the moment.

[Bobbisox1]

Me too 3Ts, me too

[ichkeria]

Surely what has happened in British politics just now is that in the absence of a proper Labour Party the Tories have tried to become it! How often has Boris Johnson disowned the previous Tory government. He even seems to have changed the name! A bit like the way Labour in recent years has disowned the Blair version of the party: tho in each case for very different reasons.

[ichkeria]

Yes “interesting” was the wrong word

[Old_Geezer]

Surely you aren't claiming that this is Nu Tory ?

[ichkeria]

I think I am OG.
Of course it may not actually turn out like that: we need to see the Queens Speech. And see what happens after Brexit.

[Ellipsis]

It's now the One Nation Tory Party. Funny, if you say one nation Tory, I think Ken Clarke, Michael Heseltine, David Cameron, Oliver Letwin, Rory Stewart ...

[ichkeria]

“One nation” means “England” :-)
Well and Wales but that hardly counts as a nation

[ludwig]

I honestly don't believe that the people running Labour at the moment care that it is unelectable. They are obsessed by maintaining the purity of it's socialist ideology at all costs.

They believe that the party was essentially stolen from them by Tories in disguise during the Blair 'New Labour' years, and now they've got it back, they will hang on to it with grim determination.

There are of course many MPs and party members that do want to win an election, and this civil war will continue to play out over the next five years.