Does Tony Blair realize how deeply unpopular Trump’s and Bibi”s war is in the western world?
HaP0tato on
I mean he is an expert in starting unpopular middle eastern wars and befriending pedophile presidents so maybe he’s got a point.
Papa_Palpatine99 on
I feel like abandoning net zero could work if we aggressively pursued nuclear energy through planning permission eases, less environmental reviews for them, and embraced massive public transport and density focused housing projects in urban areas, which would help achieve the principals of net zero without the public dislike of the branding “Net Zero”. Fuck Trump though.
Aurailious on
Tony Blair should resign.
ZweigDidion on
What is up with Blair? First the Gaza/Board of Peace bullshit and now this?
SheHerDeepState on
The British political class needs to touch grass. Holy shit.
BarkDrandon on
I’m so tired of these cowards.
When has appeasing Trump ever worked? He doesn’t reward his friends, he shits on them and forgets about them as soon as they’re dead.
The only thing Trump appreciates is charisma. He wants to be around stars, not lackeys.
>1. The private sector will go through a process of adaptation to this new AI world and, therefore, business and entrepreneurs need to know government is on their side, removing obstacles to business growth – not creating them as they go through this massive process of adjustment. So, all those measures I described above which hold business back should be corrected or mitigated.
>2. We need a transformative programme for planning reform and deregulation. The planning system in Britain is an abomination. The government has taken significant steps, but well short of a truly radical reform.
>3. We must prioritise cheaper energy and electrification over net zero and use what is left of our North Sea oil and gas resources. This is essential for our competitiveness and for taking advantage of AI.
>4. We should create a major new partnership with the private and voluntary sectors for apprenticeships and training – not just for the young and unemployed, but for the existing workforce whose jobs will be affected by AI and who need to learn AI adoption. Build on and not dilute the education reforms for schools started under New Labour and continued under the Conservatives. And keep our universities strong because they’re critical to the technology economy. This is the key to extending opportunity and wealth, even more than it was in 1997.
>5. ‘Reindustrialising’ the north of the country can be encouraged by government giving incentives and help but most of all it will come through first-class infrastructure, education, freedom from bureaucracy, and government working in partnership with the private sector and with the forward-facing part of the trade-union movement. And with a broad definition of ‘industry’ if we want to create jobs because much of future manufacturing will likely be done by robots, though there will be also major opportunities in areas requiring a high degree of traditional skills.
>6. A plan for fundamental reform, over time, of welfare. By the end of this decade, we could be spending more on incapacity and disability benefits than on defence. No serious country can do that. Mental-health spending has exploded over the past five or six years. The system at points incentivises people not to work. The triple lock is unaffordable long term. All of this is horribly hard, but the British people know, deep down, the necessity of doing it. If the Conservative Party repeats its offer of working together on welfare, Labour should accept the offer.
>7. The NHS needs not NHS reform but whole-system health-care reform. Moving from cure to prevention. Mixing private and public provision in a fundamental realignment of the two. Reorganising the delivery of health care, for example making weight-loss drugs and other preventative products widely available. Getting rid of all the old shibboleths which have turned the NHS into a point of theological principle rather than a modern service where the transformative power of technology alters its foundations.
>8. Take effective – i.e. ‘whatever it takes’ – action to solve the illegal immigration issue. The home secretary is right in believing that solving this issue is critical and has completely changed in nature since 2007. Solving it is pre-conditional to getting the British people to listen to bigger arguments about the future. We should deal by whatever means with small boats but recognise the necessity of targeted immigration in certain sectors for economic growth and be unashamed to advocate it.
>9. Most important of all, reorganising the whole of government around the harnessing of the 21st-century technological revolution. All governments for the foreseeable future will govern in the age of AI. Those which understand it will see their countries prosper; those which don’t, won’t. This is literally the challenge across all sectors including welfare and health (digital ID is just one, though vital, part of it). It will define the future of the British economy which, ironically, has a powerful position in technology but one we’re in danger of squandering.
>10. Our aim, for the long term, should be a Reimagined State in which taxes and spending can be lower, productivity higher and government seen as enabling not directing, with political consensus behind such a radical restructuring of the state.
>Alongside this policy agenda would come a wholesale reconfiguration of government. Not civil-service retraining, but a new cadre of workforce, with the specialist technical skills necessary to do systemic change. Departments effectively run by ministers not exclusively from the ranks of Parliament if they have the necessary experience and capability in change management, with special provision for them to be accountable.
>Without an agenda of this nature, radical but sensible, Britain will continue its long slide towards relegation from the Premier League of nations. It is not inevitable we decline. Britain still has huge strengths, a highly talented people and a residual respect in the world. But we must show we understand how that world is changing and what our place in it should be. That requires, in turn, a fundamental change in our current politics.
>We have done it before and can do it again. But will we?
“Hey Kier, make the same exact mistake I did but even dumber, that’ll save us next election”
Blair can’t have always been this stupid.
No-Section-1092 on
Maybe Blair is playing the role of Malcolm Tucker by recommending Starmer do a list of things that are so stupid or polarizing in order to hasten his resignation.
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Does Tony Blair realize how deeply unpopular Trump’s and Bibi”s war is in the western world?
I mean he is an expert in starting unpopular middle eastern wars and befriending pedophile presidents so maybe he’s got a point.
I feel like abandoning net zero could work if we aggressively pursued nuclear energy through planning permission eases, less environmental reviews for them, and embraced massive public transport and density focused housing projects in urban areas, which would help achieve the principals of net zero without the public dislike of the branding “Net Zero”. Fuck Trump though.
Tony Blair should resign.
What is up with Blair? First the Gaza/Board of Peace bullshit and now this?
The British political class needs to touch grass. Holy shit.
I’m so tired of these cowards.
When has appeasing Trump ever worked? He doesn’t reward his friends, he shits on them and forgets about them as soon as they’re dead.
The only thing Trump appreciates is charisma. He wants to be around stars, not lackeys.
[You can read what Blair wrote here.](https://institute.global/insights/politics-and-governance/the-labour-party-is-playing-with-fire-over-its-future-and-the-future-of-the-country) Personally, I agree with most of what he’s saying, at least in regards to domestic policy. Here’s an agenda list suggested at the end of the essay:
>1. The private sector will go through a process of adaptation to this new AI world and, therefore, business and entrepreneurs need to know government is on their side, removing obstacles to business growth – not creating them as they go through this massive process of adjustment. So, all those measures I described above which hold business back should be corrected or mitigated.
>2. We need a transformative programme for planning reform and deregulation. The planning system in Britain is an abomination. The government has taken significant steps, but well short of a truly radical reform.
>3. We must prioritise cheaper energy and electrification over net zero and use what is left of our North Sea oil and gas resources. This is essential for our competitiveness and for taking advantage of AI.
>4. We should create a major new partnership with the private and voluntary sectors for apprenticeships and training – not just for the young and unemployed, but for the existing workforce whose jobs will be affected by AI and who need to learn AI adoption. Build on and not dilute the education reforms for schools started under New Labour and continued under the Conservatives. And keep our universities strong because they’re critical to the technology economy. This is the key to extending opportunity and wealth, even more than it was in 1997.
>5. ‘Reindustrialising’ the north of the country can be encouraged by government giving incentives and help but most of all it will come through first-class infrastructure, education, freedom from bureaucracy, and government working in partnership with the private sector and with the forward-facing part of the trade-union movement. And with a broad definition of ‘industry’ if we want to create jobs because much of future manufacturing will likely be done by robots, though there will be also major opportunities in areas requiring a high degree of traditional skills.
>6. A plan for fundamental reform, over time, of welfare. By the end of this decade, we could be spending more on incapacity and disability benefits than on defence. No serious country can do that. Mental-health spending has exploded over the past five or six years. The system at points incentivises people not to work. The triple lock is unaffordable long term. All of this is horribly hard, but the British people know, deep down, the necessity of doing it. If the Conservative Party repeats its offer of working together on welfare, Labour should accept the offer.
>7. The NHS needs not NHS reform but whole-system health-care reform. Moving from cure to prevention. Mixing private and public provision in a fundamental realignment of the two. Reorganising the delivery of health care, for example making weight-loss drugs and other preventative products widely available. Getting rid of all the old shibboleths which have turned the NHS into a point of theological principle rather than a modern service where the transformative power of technology alters its foundations.
>8. Take effective – i.e. ‘whatever it takes’ – action to solve the illegal immigration issue. The home secretary is right in believing that solving this issue is critical and has completely changed in nature since 2007. Solving it is pre-conditional to getting the British people to listen to bigger arguments about the future. We should deal by whatever means with small boats but recognise the necessity of targeted immigration in certain sectors for economic growth and be unashamed to advocate it.
>9. Most important of all, reorganising the whole of government around the harnessing of the 21st-century technological revolution. All governments for the foreseeable future will govern in the age of AI. Those which understand it will see their countries prosper; those which don’t, won’t. This is literally the challenge across all sectors including welfare and health (digital ID is just one, though vital, part of it). It will define the future of the British economy which, ironically, has a powerful position in technology but one we’re in danger of squandering.
>10. Our aim, for the long term, should be a Reimagined State in which taxes and spending can be lower, productivity higher and government seen as enabling not directing, with political consensus behind such a radical restructuring of the state.
>Alongside this policy agenda would come a wholesale reconfiguration of government. Not civil-service retraining, but a new cadre of workforce, with the specialist technical skills necessary to do systemic change. Departments effectively run by ministers not exclusively from the ranks of Parliament if they have the necessary experience and capability in change management, with special provision for them to be accountable.
>Without an agenda of this nature, radical but sensible, Britain will continue its long slide towards relegation from the Premier League of nations. It is not inevitable we decline. Britain still has huge strengths, a highly talented people and a residual respect in the world. But we must show we understand how that world is changing and what our place in it should be. That requires, in turn, a fundamental change in our current politics.
>We have done it before and can do it again. But will we?
The US under Trump has done nothing but degrade the UK don’t forget Trump flatout said British troops in Afghanistan “[stayed a little off the frontlines](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/25/if-you-havent-served-respect-those-who-have-nato-soldiers-on-trumps-slurs)” despite the fact 457 British troops died in that conflict. It’s down right insulting Blair would say this after Trump’s comment spitting on the graves of British soldiers.
“Hey Kier, make the same exact mistake I did but even dumber, that’ll save us next election”
Blair can’t have always been this stupid.
Maybe Blair is playing the role of Malcolm Tucker by recommending Starmer do a list of things that are so stupid or polarizing in order to hasten his resignation.