The Labour Party has once again criticized Sir Tony Blair for his views on the government's lack of a coherent plan and the impact of policies on business. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused Blair of not understanding modern politics, while Blair himself wrote an essay criticizing the government's approach to modern politics and the need for interventionism in the economy.
The Labour Party turned on Sir Tony Blair once again this week for committing the cardinal sin of stating the bleeding obvious. Despite the fact that Tony Blair is the most successful Labour Prime Minister this country has ever known, or is ever likely to know, Andy Burnham , the mayor of Greater Manchester and the man most likely to be our next PM, had the gall to accuse him of a failure to understand modern politics .
He followed that up with an essay of his own in which he said that economic success in Manchester had been achieved through a ‘very interventionist’ approach and the lesson was that ‘you can’t just leave it to the market’. None of this comes as much of a surprise to those of us who have paid the price of giving our lives to a party which now rejects almost everything we believe in.
The public is not lying awake fretting about Mosul in 2003, or marginal tax rates in the 1980s, or the Common Agricultural Policy. They are worrying about the impact of mass legal and illegal migration, their spiralling energy bills, the growing scourge of welfare dependency, public services that always seem to cost more and deliver less, and whether their children will be better off than they are
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