Comments on: Bring Back Blair!

By: All Must Have Spiders

All Must Have Spiders — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:03:27 +0000

For the umpteenth time, I never wanted Brown as leader. He is classic no.2 material…

Oh, I agree. (You’re saying he’s a turd, right?) Yep, complete and utter no.2 material. Thank God him and his wretched party are finished.

By: David Lindsay

David Lindsay — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:02:01 +0000

XofTheX, quite so. If the BNP is a party of the Left, then why did it and the Tories (and Harry’s Place) run a joint candidate for Mayor of London?

Vanishing Point, good to hear from the deniers, if only to remind the rest of us that you are there. Again, you are much of a piece with the BNP.

By: XofTheX

XofTheX — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:27:54 +0000

The BNP is left wing because of its programme? Since when has the left espoused ‘blood and soil’ nationalism and white supremacy? Its economic programme, if it can be dignified by the term, is a hodge podge cynically adopted to appeal to disgruntled Labour voters.

Agree with you about UKIP, though. I’ve got to know quite a few UKIPers through my opposition to ID Cards and they are not Nazis!

By: Mark2

Mark2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:28:55 +0000

Labour could certainly do worse than bringing back Blair. Trouble is, is there a seat left safe enough to parachute him into. Passe Gordon Brown, we couldn’t have a PM in the Lords too now could we!?

By: Michael Booth

Michael Booth — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:49:07 +0000

I think it is totally unfair and way off the mark to lump UKIP as an extreme nationalist party in the same breath as the BNP – which in any case is a party of the extreme Left if you look at its programme. Blair laid the foundations upon which Brown stands, shuffles and gurnies – bringing him back is a laughable idea.

By: Brownie

Brownie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:11:56 +0000

Hector,

Yeah, but Blair still had credibility even amongst his opponents. He was considered a genuine parliamentary heavyweight and a formidable political foe who had achieved for the Labour party in general elections what no previous party leader had come close to achieving.

A straight fight between even a stale Blair and Cameron at a general election is not something the Tory party would have been relishing, whatever bluster you might get from them now.

BTW, in the last Euro elections before Labour were swept to power they polled 44% of the vote, a mere 16% more than the Tories managed this time around.

By: Hector

Hector — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:58:49 +0000

“Blair was forced out because his support had fallen to Michael Foot levels??”

According to the polls, yes. Blair wanted to stay until the end of the term. He was forced out because the polls in early 2007 showed Labour doing worse than it had under Foot. And also the 22% Labour got in the European election under Blair in 2004 was well below what Labour got in 1983.

By: XofTheX

XofTheX — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:42:22 +0000

The ludicrous thing about this squabble between Brownites and Blairites is that there is no substantive difference between them on ideology or policy. The Labour party is truly brain dead if it allows itself to be destroyed over so little.

By: Monty

Monty — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:42:22 +0000

The PLP are clinging to their leader after all. They are also clinging to their pay, and their severance money when they finally get voted out. By far the most lucrative option.

But this seedy self-interested dog and pony show is going to damage the party in the future. The damage down the line, will be inflicted on folk who aren’t labour MPs yet, and possibly never will be.

By: XofTheX

XofTheX — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:42:22 +0000

The ludicrous thing about this squabble between Brownites and Blairites is that there is no substantive difference between them on ideology or policy. The Labour party is brain dead. That is why it deserves to be destroyed.