What was British Capitalism's interest in 'allowing' the New Labour reforms? Why trust any flavour of leftist thinking above the surety of any conservative policy?
Blairism is not Leftist and never will be. It guarenteed after the discontent by workers of Thatchers brutal regime and it's imminent demise, a safe Second 11 for Big Business. He was lauded by the very same reactionary billionaire owned press, as Starmer has been recently, why you may ask?
Perhaps starting with The Guardian reporting at the time that, “Tony Blair helped Murdoch overcome an official investigation which was jeopardising one of his big investments...Blair, while Prime Minister, immediately ordered his top officials to help the tycoon.” Remember Blair having a splendid time on Murdoch's yacht and the gutter scabby Sun ,The Times, the Sunday Times and the News of the World (all owned by Murdoch's News International) exalting their readers to vote for Blair's Labour in1979. Jesus.
Not lifting a finger to reverse Thatchers anti Trade Union legislation. Music to Big Business.
Initiating privatisation within the NHS, music to the ears of Big Business again.
Initiating PFI, more music for Big Business,
PFI debt for the British taxpayer is more than £300bn for infrastructure projects, with a value of £54.7bn.This means hospitals will have paid £80 billion by 2050for infrastructure worth £13 billion.
Blair gutted the Labour Party of internal democracy, subordinated it to US imperialism and prostituted Labour to the City of London.
Documents that were released as part of the Chilcot Report . Showed Tony Blair's government had taken on this disgrace big time, to make sure British companies benefited from the potential riches involved in Iraq’s postwar reconstruction, and plaudits from Britain's armament industry. Fuck sake 500,000 civilian deaths worth it Tony?
How that fucker ever got free rein in the MSM along with, Campbell, Lord Mandelson who not unsurprisingly joined George Osborne on a yacht belonging to Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, as a guest of financier Nathaniel Rothschild. Both daily attacked Corbyn in the Tory free newspaper with a massive circulation in London,The Evening Standard edited by Osbourne and owned by Russian Oligarch
Alexander Lebedev. Whats with it with these right wing Labour apologists and yachts and billionaires .
If you want more amigo, as I have said the list of my criticisms is as long as my arm.
Most Nats on here could express their criticisms of anything Nat on the back of a postage stamp.
Several Nat pals on here over the years very much the minority have had the balls to critisise SNP/ Government policies/actions. I salute you. To the vast majority who have not . Grow a pair. My critisism of things I disagree with in the Labour Party has not been ephemeral but constructive and over 50 years of membership. Definately not to the liking of the Party establishment over the years.
For those Nat Hibee amigos I know , who do not have constructive criticism of your own Party, you do no justice to yourselves and will not further the Scottish Independence cause in a progressive direction in my opinion.
BIG G