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Posted on 05/28/2026 6:34:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Tony Blair has accused Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting of putting Labour’s future at risk by abandoning the centre ground, warning that the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” means it is likely to lose the next election.
In a scathing 5,700-word attack on the prime minister and his would-be successors published on Tuesday night, Blair argued for the government to crack down on welfare spending, abandon restrictions on oil and gas and smooth relations with Donald Trump.
His essay, a highly unusual intervention for a past Labour prime minister, is likely to draw a furious response from across the party, where Blair’s legacy remains highly contentious. On Tuesday, one senior source accused him of abandoning social democratic values to embrace an agenda that had “no answers”.
But Blair also suggested it was a mistake for others in the party to seek to remove Starmer as prime minister, saying: “The Labour party is playing with fire; or, more accurately with its future, and that of the country. Whether there is a leadership change or not is irrelevant if it doesn’t start with a policy debate.
“Trying to force the prime minister out, before we know what policy direction we’re bringing in, is not a serious way of conducting ourselves.”
Blair attacked Burnham and his fellow leadership contender Wes Streeting – who has often been cast as a Blairite but rejects the label – for ideas on tax and spending that he said had been rejected by serious governments. He said it was a “perennial delusion” that the party should move left while losing seats to the right, saying it was “dangerous to do it in government”.
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Tony Blair shows some good political sense. When is the last time that happened?!
It will never happen.
Labor will forever move farther left.
Sense, my derriere.
Their Deep State is retrenching.
Too late, at least for Starmer. The only folks still listening to Starmer are in agreement with him politically, except they don’t think he’s done quite enough for the ‘poor’ refugees yet. He will need to be forced to do what’s right.
In America, there is a real estate guy from NYC who is better at politics than all of our professional politicians. I think it may be like that in the UK as well. The thing Starmer should focus on is just to suck less. And I don’t think he would agree with my assessment. Starmer will continue to do stupid stuff, and do it proudly. That’s where his political instincts take him.
Tony was an Epstein Island visitor if I remember correctly.
Net Zero is the dumbest thing ever
You can just *feel* the gritted teeth of the author and editorial staff.
Let them fight. It is good for Islam.
Blair is the reason Britain is in this mess in the first place.
Globalist Blair knows ‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’
He learned his ‘Third Way’ triangulation at the feet of his mentor and fellow Epstein pal Bill Clinton.
He understands the WEF globalists need to pretend move closer to President Trump and the USA and get whatever advantaged positions they can today, while waiting until President Trump is gone.
They will remain on track for their anti-Christ Agenda 2030.
Blair is such a pariah in the Labour Party that I’m not even sure he is defacto a member of the party anymore. So he has the freedom to let loose and slam Starmer. The irony is that it was one of Blair’s cornerstone policies - open borders immigration - that set up the mess that Britain is in now. So Blair can’t really point fingers.
Then he became Bush’s Step-n-Fetchit.
At this point, Tony Blair is more of a Tory.
And Tories advocated open borders immigration.
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