Arrogant Blair will make people want Brexit more
TRULY breath-taking is Tony Blair’s call to arms for the anti-Brexit cause. The lack of selfawareness and hypocrisy in his speech in the City of London yesterday would make one burst out laughing but for his incendiary demand that people “rise up in defence of what we believe”.
Does the former Prime Minister really want to see the streets filled with angry crowds waving banners, surging towards police cordons? A bit like the million strong anti-war protests in 2003 that, oh yes, Blair provoked by his ill-advised invasion of Iraq.
Again, something like the “imperfect knowledge” that he now blames for us poor voters misunderstanding the full impact of Brexit. Only Blair could have the colossal self-delusion to ignore his own past faults and re-cast himself as an EU saviour.
As he strides around his mansion at a bit of a loose end, seeing his legacy unravel, it appears Blair’s mates are encouraging him to re-enter the fray. Not only to reinvigorate the pro-EU cause but also to save the Labour Party from destruction.
Last year, he ditched his controversial money-spinning activities to focus on worthy not-for-profit work. Some people saw this as preparing the way for his return to mainstream politics.
AS HE sees Labour under Jeremy Corbyn sink lower and lower in the polls, Blair can only hark back to the days when he made the party an election-winning machine. But he seems totally devoid of the wit to see that it was his very attitude of ignoring the legitimate concerns of a huge number of his core voters that caused the present implosion of the Labour Party.
Theresa May’s Conservative Party is now more in tune with many working-class people than he will ever be.
If Blair’s speech is anything to go by, he would be very ill-advised to think he can step back into politics — either riding to the rescue of the Labour Party he helped destroy or heading a new centre-Left party. He professes to share the pain of communities around the country that thanks to uncontrolled immigration face