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Why is Labour so intent on demonising the only political and electoral success it's had over the last 50 years?
Blair's vote was propped up by a voter demographic that is now abandoning the party. Blairism did not "win" the traditional labour vote, it exploited it (and we are still paying for that).
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Back to Blairism.
Why is Labour so intent on demonising the only political and electoral success it's had over the last 50 years? Being emotionally anchored to a perceived failure of the last time it was in power, seems to me, to be fundamentally holding Labour back for the future.
If the narrative could be more like, "yeah the Iraq war was a fuck-up but when we were in power we did x, y, z and improved the lives of British people by a, b, c and these are core Labour values, we are the party of the people not the elite". Wouldn't this be a more sensible way to demonstrate our worth?