Blair Says New Labour’s Transformation Now Complete
By Lolo Laroche
Tony Blair yesterday hinted that his resignation could be sooner rather than later when he told the press that his transformation of the UK Labour party is now complete.
Considered unelectable by many before Tony Blair’s appearance, the UK labour party was a bastion of left wing ideals, largely controlled by the unions and running a high tax welfare state economy.
Tony Blair is the man largely credited with the transformation of the party from an unelectable mess to the modern image conscious party of the nineties. Many however have been surprised by just how far Blair has gone in moving the party to the right. So much has the UK labour party changed that many claim that it is now situated slightly to the right of the country’s anti-European Conservative party.
Over the last week, Blair who has often denied being a secret right-winger, has given up any pretence of differentiation between himself and the Iron Lady, requesting a new generation of nuclear power stations, a 12 billion pound update of Britain’s nuclear weaponry, and pushing for welfare cuts to Britain’s poorest population, (the unemployed disabled) to pay for it all.
Many political commentators believe that his appearance outside downing street yesterday wearing Margaret Thatcher’s trademark blue twin set and one of her favourite blonde wigs, was proof, if of nothing else, that he has completely lost the plot.
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