{"id":1309,"date":"2026-05-28T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/05\/28\/tony-blair-emerges-a-fake-savior-of-uks-labour-party\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:39:53","slug":"tony-blair-emerges-a-fake-savior-of-uks-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair emerges a fake \u2018savior\u2019 of UK\u2019s Labour Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the party implodes under inept leadership, the former PM has come up with his own ten commandments \u2013 which will only poison it further<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This week, as UK Labour\u2019s destructive leadership contest intensified, former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair staged a remarkable intervention in which he single-handedly sought to save the party from political oblivion.<\/p>\n

Blair\u2019s dramatic intrusion into Labour politics took the form of a 5,600 word essay \u2013 in which he denounced Keir Starmer, criticized leadership contenders Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting, and, more importantly, set out a radical political manifesto that he believes the Labour Party must adopt if it wishes to remain a viable force in UK politics.<\/p>\n

The fact that Blair felt the need to act in this unprecedented manner \u2013 since resigning as Prime Minister in 2007 he has rarely intervened in UK politics \u2013 is, in itself, indicative of the severity of the existential crisis that has recently engulfed the Labour Party.<\/p>\n

In his essay, Blair accuses the party of having lacked a credible policy program for decades \u2013 and he is especially critical of the Labour left, referring pointedly to \u201cthe infinite capacity of the Labour Party for self-delusion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Blair rightly claims that Starmer has \u201cno coherent plan for the country\u201d<\/em> and describes Burnham as a good junior minister when he served in Blair\u2019s own cabinet \u2013 faint praise indeed \u2013 but is brutally dismissive of his Corbynite economic agenda. Blair is also critical of Streeting for lacking policy coherence and for wanting to re-join the European Union. These criticisms are perfectly valid, and Blair is correct to refuse to endorse any of the talentless contenders for the Labour leadership.<\/p>\n

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But Blair has a more fundamental and telling criticism to make of Labour \u2013 namely that, unless the Party moves beyond political squabbling about changing leaders, and adopts a radically new coherent policy agenda, the Party is doomed to extinction. According to Blair \u201cif you can\u2019t agree on your policy direction, then there is no point in changing your leader\u201d<\/em>. \u00a0This criticism is also valid.<\/p>\n

Blair, who has never suffered from false modesty, then proceeds to set out his personal agenda for Labour\u2019s political salvation \u2013 which he grandiosely terms his \u201cten-point plan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It appears that Blair, who believes that God has guided his political maneuverings in the past, has this week cast himself in the role of Labour\u2019s savior \u2013 with his ten-point plan apparently being a secular version the ten commandments, that will lead Labour into the promised land where electoral success awaits it.<\/p>\n

Blair\u2019s plan is a remarkable political manifesto for a former Labour Prime Minister to have drafted \u2013 although it is fully in keeping with Blair\u2019s own globalist prejudices and elitist world-view.<\/p>\n

Blair describes his plan as a \u201cradical centrist\u201d<\/em> political agenda, and he urges Labour to:<\/p>\n