Self Decapitation
Tony Blair has been the most successful leader in the history of the Labour Party. He wins elections, he trounces Tories, he makes people feel good about Britain; in short, he is a political genius. The Labour parties’ pathetic and disloyal campaign against him will go down as one of the most shameful moments in that party's history. Labour no longer deserves to win another term in office – they have rejected a leader chosen by the public three times in a row with record majorities callously and for selfish, short term reasons.
Blair has been a first rate Prime Minister. He deserves to be ranked alongside the Churchills, Gladstones and the Thatchers (yes, you read me correctly – Thatcher) on the top tier of British Prime Ministers. He has entrenched a progressive consensus in Britain (if you want proof of this simply take at look at the election of David Cameron as Tory leader– undoubtedly the most progressive leader the Conservatives have ever had with the possible exception of Ted Heath) and convinced the British public of the merits of market capitalism combined with reformed and efficient public services.
Gordon Brown has been a competent Chancellor of the Exchequer and, in my view, has earned a shot at the top job. But not as the leader of the Labour Party – an organisation which has become as reactionary and self obsessed as the Tory party of the Major years. Labour will not win the next election and it will not deserve to. The Labour governments of the past 10 years were not Labour governments – they were Blair governments. Blair had to forced the Labour party into the modern age and led from the front; fighting and winning important battles on Welfare reform, economic competence and a progressive foreign policy. Labours black soul would turn the clock back if it could.
The Democrats took Clinton’s charisma and tenegenic talent for granted after he left. They has become so used to his talents that they expected Al Gore to be able to pull off the same tricks. Blair, like Clinton, is a master in the art of modern political rhetoric. Gordon Brown cannot ever hope to compete with Blair in this respect and as a result he will suffer in the polls against David Cameron- a man who is also the beneficiary of the ‘X factor’ possessed by those modern masters.
Labour has just decapitated itself. Those silly tossers at the Labour party conference have no idea of the damage they have caused by stabbing their leader in the back.
-posted by Adam
Tony Blair is not a socialist.
'He has entrenched a progressive consensus in Britain'
Thats right, before Blair every single British voter was a right-wing Daily Mail reader/Tory.
'They has become so used to his talents that they expected Al Gore to be able to pull off the same tricks'.
Al Gore won the 2000 election.
'yes, you read me correctly – Thatcher'
A supporter of the Apartheid regime and General Pinochet, and a tyrannical bitch who closed down the mines and put millions out of work. Have you no shame?
'Gordon Brown cannot ever hope to compete with Blair in this respect and as a result he will suffer in the polls against David Cameron- a man who is also the beneficiary of the ‘X factor’ possessed by those modern masters'.
So personality and charisma are more admirable qualities than policies or principles? I think not.
'Labours black soul'
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What a completly irrelevent and pointless comment.
''Thats right, before Blair every single British voter was a right-wing Daily Mail reader/Tory.''
Before Blair the Tories won 4 general elections in a row.
''Al Gore won the 2000 election.''
Once again, a pointless comment. What I was saying was that the Dems expected Al Gore to steamroller Bush in the way Clinton had dispatched the Republicans in the 90's. He couldn't, because he did not have Clinton's gift for modern political communication.
''A supporter of the Apartheid regime and General Pinochet, and a tyrannical bitch who closed down the mines and put millions out of work. Have you no shame?''
Did I say I agreed with everything Thatcher did? No, I didn't. I do however recognise her acheivements and acknowledge them and celebrate them.
''So personality and charisma are more admirable qualities than policies or principles? I think not.''
Once again, you misread my writing. I was not commenting on whether personality and charisma is more important than style, merely remarking that in modern politics style has trumped policy in many respects.
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