What Blair gets wrong 1/ The social use of digital tech is not given by the technology itself: it has no use for a big state because it is wedded to monopolies and tax evasion...like the early factory system: we can change this... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
2/ The deep social divisions, poverty, precarity and insecurity are all products of the economic system Blair helped embed: neoliberal globalisation. The answer is not more of it... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
3/ The project of a Liberal led, Macron style party, which Labour dissolves into, is a non-starter in Britain. The TIG failed because there is no social base for it... and the Greens pose a real challenge to Labour from the left... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
4/ His attack on "woke" is just a dog-whistle for the Labour right to ditch the party's commitments to defend migrants, ethnic minorities and trans rights ... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
5/ But he's right on one thing: the radical left has set the agenda here, just as in the USA - in a way not possible during the Blair/Goldilocks Era - but he never stops to ask why. The answer is: because capitalism is in decline... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
6/ For all the media-grabbing by Blair/Mandelson/Campbell in the last 24 hours, their project is played out ... it failed with the TIG and the Jess Phillips campaign... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
7/ Labour needs to be an alliance - of left and right, Wigan and Camden. There's an anti-Tory majority in Britain, and Labour has to construct an offer that puts that majority into power... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
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