Blair joins the Labour right's attack on "woke": am writing a reply to this - it's required reading: a case study in how political obsessions (in this case with creating a globalist centrism) become irrelevant. Thread 1/... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
2/ Blair's main attack is on the Labour centre for being wimps in the face of wokeness. There's the usual blather about technological change and an attack on Starmer - plus a call for some kind of Lib-Lab movement... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
3/ Blair understands that the radical left has set the agenda. He thinks you can create some kind of Macron-style party or movement that can subsume Labour into liberalism as a response... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
4/ The payload is delivered by Mandelson - expel the left, break with the left union leaders - but what then. You're left with a rerun of the TIG - which failed because its front-people were useless and it had no base in reality... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
5/ Nevertheless, it's important to engage with Blair/Mandelson because they have a far clearer idea than many on the active Labour right about what the alternative to Corbynism is... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
6/ If they succeed, Labour will be out of power until 2029 and what comes after will be Macron style authoritarian liberalism. Freebies for the elite, riot cops against strikers, attacks on welfare, repression for migrants... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
7/ How Starmer/Rayner - it's now looking like a joint leadership thanks to the weekend debacle - react to this will be important. They should engage, methodically, and reject Blair's strategy... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
8/ We, the radical left, need to at least chalk this up: the grand master of neoliberalism admits we are setting the agenda and that traditional Labourism is bereft of answers... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
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