Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Blair’s spin doctor supreme and guardian of the New Labour ideal of sofa government and establishment cocktails, is very unhappy about Corbyn and has been saying nasty things about the party under his leadership.

The problem however is that during the New Labour era, the working class were turned off by the pink Thatcherism it promoted. When Blair won in in 1997 he pulled 13.5 million votes. The total fell in 2001, 2005 and by 2010 it was at 8.6 million. That is 5 million votes lost by a party which had turned its back on the very people whose interests the whole Labour Movement had been founded to defend. Under Milliband the rot stopped in 2015 and a slight leftward lean gave back 700 thousand votes. But in 2017 Labour, under Corbyn,  pulled a whopping 12.8 million votes and with it May’s majority.

So Campbell’s rant is eloquent but wrong. Twenty-First century Labour is better off without him. He would be ideal for the Lib Dems. Or Boris even.

Sir Richard Henriques does not mince his words in his article in today’s Daily Mail. If there is one thing which must strike a chill to the bone of a free democratic society, it is a police force whose integrity is open to question. At any level and in any circumstances. His detailed account not only casts doubt upon the Met’s objectivity and candour, this distinguished retired judge asserts the law has been broken. Moreover the conflicting exoneration of the processes and officers involved in the dreadful saga of operation Midland casts doubt on the investigative competence of the IOPC. There is a nagging suspicion of a whitewash. All worrying stuff.