Tony Blair ‘planning major intervention’ over Labour’s future
Sir Tony Blair’s think tank is said to be pulling together a policy plan to “save the Labour party” amid frustrations over Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.
The former prime minister is reportedly looking carefully at a number of candidates for leadership campaigns as reports in The Times suggest he is dissatisfied by the direction of Sir Keir’s government.
Sources said November’s Budget had “killed any idea this is a Blairite or New Labour-like government”, adding Sir Tony had all but “given up” on attempting to influence Starmer over recent months.
So Tony Blair expects to have his clammy hand on the Labour tiller but Starmer isn't responding. Not a huge surprise, but it is interesting if Blair has all but “given up” on attempting to influence Starmer over recent months. It reinforces something we've seen for quite a while - Starmer is absurdly intransigent.
Also interesting is that Blair has chosen to point out what sane folk have always known, the supposed basis of Ed Miliband's energy policy is "riven with irrationality". It's worse than that, but it's a start.
Sir Tony said in a TBI report: “People know that the current state of debate over climate change is riven with irrationality … any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail.”
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Times are desperate when I find that Blair is talking sense.
On the other hand any Tony Blair medicine sounds worse than the sickness it supposed to fix. A short term reduction of pain followed by longer term organ damage perhaps?
Woodsy - it's taken him a long time though.
Anon - yes it's grim if he's one of the rescuers.
Riven with irrationality ... fine expression, AKH.
James - it is, pity it's Blair's but he's right.
How weird. How strange. A week or so ago the grate Bill Gates came out and said that Global Warming / Climate Change is not the most serious problem any more.
And, lo, Sir Charles Anthony Lynton Blair ( Why are press so disrespectful. They give his title, but not his proper nsme, Miranda.) comes out and says more or less the same thing.
Why did Surkier not get the message - About Turn, reverse the ferret. WEF has changed its priorities.
So now Tone has come, armed with all the evidence, copies only, to make an offer that Suckier cannot refuse. I wonder if Suckear owns a horse.
And on the subject of lost causes -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wSPokPXRcEY-
Doonhamer - ha ha, it's good to watch the scam slowly crumble. We know Starmer isn't smart because he still hasn't dumped Ed Miliband in spite of unmissable hints from Gates and Blair that the game is over and it's time to climb aboard another bandwagon.
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