Shortly after he became prime minister Tony Blair gave a speech to plutocrats in New York in which he said that it was his ambition to make Labour 'the natural party of business'.
Blair's latest outburst has all the hallmarks of that orientation. Both Streeting and Burnham have pointed out that he fails to mention inequality once in his diatribe. Of course, he has made a fortune through his global advice services, often provided to leaders who fall below the highest standards of probity. And he is in the pocket of President Trump. If he was still prime minister we would be fighting alongside the Americans in Iran. Thanks for Iraq, Tony.
'Radical centrism' is in fact a right wing set of policies based on all power to the technocrats. Screwing the public sector was a key aim. A headmistress of a successful primary school was shocked to be told by a uni friend who was a Blair adviser 'we are coming after you people.'
In 1997 I voted for the yogic flyers rather than vote for Tony whom I thought was a slippery customer.
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