Former PM doesnt understand that excited activists are trying to frighten the elites who failed them in the past So Tony Blair is puzzled about the rise of Jeremy Sanders and Bernie Corbyn as fiery leftwing candidates for tall office. Excellent. The former centre-left prime minister isn’t puzzled enough,in my experience. Puzzlement might achieve him good; even immediate him to wonder if his own behaviour since leaving office has contributed in any way to voter disenchantment.
I say this more in hope than expectation, more in sorrow than in madden, and as an admirer of Blair. A skilled and successful leader of a Britain more prosperous and content than now for a decade,he would not have got us into several of the troubles the country currently faces – in Europe and Scotland for example, though he managed one or two of his own. Related: Tony Blair’s ‘pragmatism failed. No wonder Corbyn and Sanders appeal | Deborah Orr Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com