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I struggle with that definition of the Blair era.
Less support for public services? Funding and quality increased throughout that government. Seems weird to me to describe it as if it was austerity.
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More support for the marketisation and competition, and a decreasing role of the state in the public sector, then, which I would describe as less support, and others* may describe as moving "beyond left and right" to a position in the "radical centre" where capitalism is viewed much less critically.
tbc
I haven't met any Corbyn-only supporters, but I do know some people who became much more politically involved when Corbyn started to do more to return Labour to pre-Blairite ideas of supporting public services and opposing expensive defence spending and foreign wars.
I'm definitely part of the camp that would see Blair as the lesser of two evils, and Corbyn as a stubborn and limited leader who was out of his depth.