100% wrong tees, voting Blair as leader set the party back decades
Blair was a Tory like his father - His policy was Tory - He infiltrated Labour and became their leader just in time to be the party of the establishment when everyone was completely and utterly sick ot death of the Tories and they'd have elected a Donkey wearing a Red Rosette - People voted Labour for change, they'd have enough, the UK desperately needed change, they didn't get change though did they, they got Tory Blair's New Fucking Labour
THAT ^^^ Is what entirely fucked the UK and the Labour Party
Go and check practically every single seats majority over each of Blair's terms, the once massive majorities were massively diminished term on term over Blair's time in office, because people voted for change and got more of the same with incredibly damaging and divisive Tory policy under the guise of Labour
His failure to represent the workers and 'level up' as each party always promises but never does and his politics created and compounded the belief that "It doesn't matter who you vote for, they're all the same" it gave the SNP far FAR more traction and votes and is the reason Labour can no longer rely on 40 plus seats in Scotland
It left a void and a mass of unrepresented working people and working class people and generations left behind for Farage, UKIP and far right groups to rock up and say THEY would represent them, the emergence of such parties and their agendas and politics filling the void Blair left is of course and undeniably THE single biggest cause of Brexit and of the vote splitting between Labour and such parties we've seen across so many Labour seats, Corbyn didn't do any of that Tees, Blair did all of that
There are SO many more layers to the damage that Blair did, but I write enough essays here
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