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Also, in spite of declaring that Blairism won't work, what you describe in terms of severing the ties with the unions, diminishing member democracy, talking about meritocracy, crime and antisocial behaviour is absolutely straight out of the Blairite textbook!
It is. And the commitment to social justice is straight out of Corbyn's. Zero tolerance for antisemitism (which I didn't put in but feel strongly about) would be out of Starmer's. There's zero point going backwards, any future Labour party is going to need to take elements of previous successful administrations and some original ideas to create something new.
Mandleson's point (that our last ten elections went lose lose lose lose blair blair blair lose lose lose) is crude but effective. Labour cannot win by going backwards but we'd be stupid to ignore history altogether.
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Also, in spite of declaring that Blairism won't work, what you describe in terms of severing the ties with the unions, diminishing member democracy, talking about meritocracy, crime and antisocial behaviour is absolutely straight out of the Blairite textbook!