Things Can Only Get Better

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YIKES!

This morning.

At Druid’s Glen Hotel in Co Wicklow.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke at a meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP), of which Fine Gael is a member, on the issue of Brexit.

It’s like a bad D:Ream.

D:Ream.

Suit yourselves.

Blair says hard border after Brexit would be a ‘disaster’ (RTE)

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

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33 thoughts on “Things Can Only Get Better

  1. Skeptical O'Hare

    Hardly surprising. New Labour were always a centre right party and provided the template for the current Irish Labour Party – a small collection of nasty spoofers masquerading as a centre left party, addicted to the term ‘populist’ and secretly in love with blueshitism.

    Here’s the leftover [r].

    1. Sheik Yahbouti

      Utterly disgraceful that the destroyer of the Labour Party, and a war criminal to boot, should be feted and listened to in this country. I keep hoping for better, but seem doomed to disappointment.

      1. classter

        If you put his Iraqi activities aside, he was an excellent PM.

        I fell into the New-Labour-are-no-different-than-the-Tories trap for a while but they:
        pumped money into Education & Health – massively improving standards in both
        brought in the minimum wage
        brought in the Human Rights Act
        brought in FOI in the UK
        supported the EU
        helped achieve peace in NI

        He definitely was far from perfect but the constant gibe of ‘war criminal’ is rather glib. He did much more positive things for the people of the UK (and for us) than Cameron or May have done. And more than Corbyn will ever do since he won’t be elected.

        1. Rob_G

          I agree with your assessment of his legacy as PM; still, “was a bit of a war criminal” is a pretty big “except for…”

        2. Sheik Yahbouti

          Disagree. The “massive improvements” in health and education intoduced the infamous PPP and so called ‘health trusts’ and we know where they led. The other items mentioned were the fulfilment of obligations under EU membership.

  2. Mourinho

    Blair looking to get back to the table. Try salvage a bit of reputation.

    I wish the irrelevant sun damaged lizard would piss off.

    I also wish I could vote for Corbyn but I’m in the wrong country.

    1. bisted

      …you should consult with Dan Boyle…he seems to vote in the UK even though he’s not resident there…you’d think there would be a law against that…

  3. Louis.lefronde

    Labour before Blair = unelectable.
    Labour after Blair = unelectable

    The Labour Party = Pointless exercise since the Tories recognised long ago that working people want opportunity, money and mobility not socialism!

    1. MoyestWithExcitement

      All they’re getting from the Tories is chaos, 19th century social organising and right wing fantasy economics. Social democracy brings the opportunity and mobility they want. Conservatives and neoliberal economics bring ineptitude and failure. Right wing economics has failed every single time.

      1. Mary Jane

        Social Democracy screwed the Middle Class through disproportionate tax redistribution used to buy the votes of white van man. All the while the really rich who can afford tax lawyers….were laughing.

        Biggest con job ever

      2. classter

        ‘All they’re getting from the Tories is chaos,’

        I agree, however, so poor are their opponents that the hard-right of the Tories are getting their way,

        1. MoyestWithExcitement

          I saw a collection of Daily Mail comments and govt poll results yesterday. A lot of Daily Mail readers liked the ideas on that Labour manifesto. That’s worth noting. There’s an issue of perception. Those govt polls asked 4 questions asking people if they agreed with some of the proposals in that document. It was 70 odd percent agreeing with nationalising energy and over 80% agreeing with the other two. Then the 4th question asked which party would make the best govt and it was over 50% Tory and 30% Labour. I saw a graph a few weeks ago showing the percentage of British people thought the EU was an important issue in their lives. The line was under 5% I think it was and then shot up by something like 10 to 15% in the two weeks after Cameron announced the referendum. We’re more susceptible to manipulation through the media than we mostly care to admit I think.

          1. Rob_G

            A lot of that is probably down to Corbyn – if Labour got rid of him, a lot more people would consider voting for them.

    2. scottser

      ironically, it was thatcher who gave the british public one of the central tenets of socialism – that the workers should own and control the means of production – just not in common. under thatcher, more people became self-employed and entrepreneurs than at any time in history. she also knew that once a worker owns the means of production they become rampant capitalists.

      1. classter

        ‘under thatcher, more people became self-employed and entrepreneurs than at any time in history’

        Have you a source for this? Doesn’t sound right to me but I guess it depends how you define ‘self-employed and entrepreneurs’

    3. Sheik Yahbouti

      Wrong. The untimely death of John Smith, a statesmanlike man of ability and integrity, started the disaster which befell the Labour party. Secondly, people of your political view consistently (or deliberately) fail to understand that socialism merely seeks equality of opportunity and egalitarian treatment for all. Equality of outcome can never occur because of variable factors like intelligence, ability, drive and sometimes luck. This fact should not, however, dissuade us from striving for equality of opportunity.

  4. Friscondo

    This guy is the epitome of the banality of evil. The human suffering he helped unleash in the Middle East is horrific. He should be arrested, tried and jailed.

  5. Mourinho

    Interesting commentator on the radio the other day.

    Mentioned that Blair started out okay, then intervened in Kosovo, with great success, and that is when the power, self belief, messianic tendencies, all when to his head. Figured he could go around fixing the world with his army after that.

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