EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

you mean the same Blair under whom the income gap widened to its highest level since thatcher? ok man, if you say so.

And the same Blair who stood for election in 1997 committed to five key pledges: to tackle crime, improve public services, maintain the top rate of tax and reduce youth unemployment. When assessed by C4 News in 2007 these pledges were found to have been largely achieved.

Polly Toynbee and David Walker came to the same conclusion in their book.

Blair also restored trust in politics in the wake of Tory sleaze. As measured by Ipsos MORI, trust in politicians rose from 15% in 1997 to 23% two years later.

There were substantial falls in pensioner and child poverty were largely driven by very significant additional spending on benefits and tax credits, and yes, inequality increased. But the Institute for Fiscal studies says that there is evidence to suggest that these reforms prevented a larger rise in inequality than actually occurred under Labour.

Oh and the minimum wage, low unemployment, well-funded public services, the Good Friday Agreement... do I need to go on?

But yeah, the tiresome assertion that New Labour and Blair were evil because inequality and Iraq.

Anyone with any perspective can look at the facts and see that objectively Blair and New Labour achieved many positive things.

at the time they stood out as one of the few times I've experienced positive politics and its effects in this country.

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There hasn't been a better government since the earlier years of New Labour. OK, that's not saying much given how terrible many subsequent governments have been, but still...