Blairism is once again at the heart of Labour

Corbyn’s party is not ‘the people’s party’. It’s a bogus mix of centrists and Lefties who resent democracy

Aspectre is haunting Brexit and its name is Tony Blair. Not merely the man himself – though, my, how stirringly his anti-brexit diatribes this week have embodied the desolate passion and antisceptic piety of the arch-remainer cause. But also the cunning and ruthless Europhile Establishment that the former Labour leader bequeathed to Britain and has declared total war on No10. Sadly, Leave voters must now brace themselves for the most unscrupulous orchestrated attempt in modern British history to undermine a democratic vote.

In a generation, Blairism – a globalist, post-modernist strain of authoritarianism, cleverly adapted to the pretences and exigencies of the modern Western world – has utterly colonised the minds of the British ruling class. The anti-intellectual dustbowl of an ideology – which stands for vaporous concepts like “compromise” and “the centre ground” – has bewitched the

most bungalow-minded of today’s Tories, from those possessed by the dullard’s disdain for big ideas, like Philip Hammond, to vain mediocrities who would rather plunge the country into a Corbyn abyss than fade gracefully into oblivion, like John Bercow.

But perhaps more astounding is how Blairite anti-brexit forces have, in recent months, reclaimed Labour by stealth. The party’s centrist ruling caste, which comprises not only snob yobs like Emily Thornberry but also not-so-banished alumni like Alastair Campbell and Blair himself, have effectively neutralised the movement’s Eurosceptic Left. They have achieved this by preying partly on Mr Corbyn’s intellectual sluggishness but mainly on Marxism’s acute appetite for power at any cost.

Tony Blair is openly coaching his successor; Labour’s move to block the PM’S vote for a general election yesterday followed his suggestion. Corbyn is also strategising straight out of the New Labour rulebook. Absurd as it sounds, his overriding aim now is to depict Boris Johnson as Britain’s most dangerous extremist. By blocking a general election until no deal is off the table, the Opposition leader is trying to sabotage the Tories’ electoral message; Corbyn aims to peddle Labour as the only force that can stop legally-enshrined protection against a “disastrous” no deal from being ripped up by a fundamentalist Tory cult in an October election - or perhaps even deny the PM a national vote before Halloween altogether, in the hope it will drive him into a humiliating EU extension.

Appalling as it is to see the so-called party of the people block not only the democratic vote for Brexit, but a general election to boot, it comes as little surprise. Labour is a bogus “party of the people”. In the early 20th century, it infiltrated and smothered the individualistic free-trade populism that was organically emerging across the country. Today, the party’s hard Left is a whingeing, despotic claque, gripped by bourgeois control-freakery and a vain messiah complex.

Over the past century, its full-fat socialists and watery centrists have sought both to crush the concept of freedom within the bosom of socialist compassion, and to tranquillise the potential of the masses via soothing fairy-tales of victimhood. Moreover, its followers deeply resent democracy, which, after countless embarrassing election routs, it believes to be systemically incapable of delivering “the right result”. Labour’s outrageous move to block Brexit is thus merely the logical culmination of its piteous and imperious 119-year history. And, crucially, Blairism and Corbynism are two sides of the same coin. Both feed off the top-down impulses of urban intelligentsia. The Trotskyists are also willing to embrace synthetic Blairite soundbites, if it offer a path to power.

Disturbingly, the metropolitan establishment that dominates British big business and 24-hour media seems only too happy to help Labour in its quest to stop Brexit. Analysts at Citibank and Deutsche Bank have declared that a high-tax Corbyn government would cause less harm than no deal. Meanwhile, the BBC, brainwashed by the Blairite concept of a neutral and sensible political centre ground, now habitually depicts a World Trade Organization (WTO) exit as extreme.

As we enter the Brexit endgame, Project Remain will put up a blistering fight. From triangulating narratives, to convoluted positioning which deliberately attempts to render the most deplorable anti-democratic tactics barely comprehensible, in the coming weeks the forces of the status quo will forensically draw on the techniques that have kept the political elite in power for decades. But for all its political skills, the establishment – which now, hysterically, has a Marxist as its main mouthpiece – is vulnerable. The public is not fooled by the post-modernist information chaos spewed out by the political elite. Voters cannot be bullied into believing that wanting to leave the EU is a radical view.

A moment of reckoning is coming, and when Britain finally goes to the polls, granted Labour will pick up support in leafy Remainia, but across its heartlands the counterfeit party will be permanently obliterated.