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Britain

Tony Blair blames 'revolutionary socialism' for Labour defeat

2019-12-19

[Dhaka Tribune] Former British prime minister Tony Blair urged his Labour party on Wednesday to abandon "quasi-revolutionary socialism" as it seeks a new leader after its worst election defeat since the 1930s.

Britannia's shellshocked left entered a period of soul-searching and mourning in the wake of last Thursday's drubbing at the polls.

The electorate handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
's Conservative party a clear mandate after he promised to take Britannia out of the Europe

...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union on January 31.

But it also redrew the political map of England as swathes of its working-class north voted Conservative for the first time.

Labour's socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn - a 70-year-old who campaign on a radical platform of state spending and re-nationalization - has since promised to step down.

The formal campaign to replace him is not set to begin until next month.

Yet several prominent Labour figures have already signalled their intention to enter a leadership contest.

Blair castigated Corbyn for "almost comic indecision" about which position to take on Britannia's near half-century membership in the EU.

"The absence of leadership on what was obviously the biggest issue facing the country reinforced all the other doubts about Jeremy Corbyn," Blair said in a speech in London.

"Politically, people saw him as fundamentally opposing what Britannia and Western countries stand for.

"He personified politically an idea, a brand of quasi-revolutionary socialism, mixing far-left economic policy with deep hostility to Western foreign policy, which never has appealed to traditional Labour voters."

Posted by:Fred

#2 Alternative headline "Tony Blair: that's not how you boil a frog"

Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2019-12-19 17:29

#1 No, Tony, you just haven't gone hard Left enough. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-19 08:46

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