Tony Blair on the Labour Party crisis - UNCUT INTERVIEW - BBC Newsnight
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In this extended uncut interview, former Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to Newsnight about Labour's worst election result since 1935 , why he still opposes a second Scottish independence referendum and how he feels more politically motivated than ever.
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STOP INTERRUPTING!!! I'm sick of the modern way of interviewing, it's more of an interrogation. Let. The. Interviewee. Speak.
That's how journalism works: the interviewer has an agenda to push and manoeuvres you into saying what she/he wants you to say. It's up to interviewee to recognize this and outmanoeuvre the journalist.
@@allenmontrasio8962 what do you think her agenda is here?
Doesn't really matter, I was speaking generally, but - to the point: defend Corbyn's catastrofic defeat and make Blair look like a dick.
That’s called scrutiny. 👍
@@allenmontrasio8962 but why? Being critical isn't the same as being cynical. Not everything is subversion.
"It's my right to speak and it's your right to refuse to listen, but dont tell me I cant speak and I wont tell you, you've got to listen"
Truth
Lol no. He's a war criminal. He should be in jail not on prime time tv
Yep. His logic is hard to argue against, which is why the vast majority of criticism refuses to engage with anything he says and resorts to personal attacks.
@@dreamer2260 While you are right, he should also still be in jail.
Has Wright Ignorant moron
lol... truth, without evidence? lol
Say what you want about Blair, he understands political strategy. Far more than most in current Labour at the moment. The interviewer seems a little slow though.
Finally someone in the commentary who looks beyond the obvious. You are of a rare and admirable breed. Most others just love to nourish their grudge against him and stopped listening the moment he opened his mouth, even when wisdom was coming out.
Agreed and agreed
@Wilbur Wafer I know, the mess in the Middle East is partly (!) because Blair trusted US 'intel' and Colin Powell, who - let's agree on that - was a man of standing before the shit came down in Iraq in 2003. Let's just say I'm either just a naive turd or just an idiot, but somehow I think Blair acted in good faith. After all, what was there for Britain or Blair personally to be gained? Besides that, apart from the casus belli - the fictionalized WMD - there were plenty of good reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein at the time as he was a very ennoying thorn in the side of all countries involved in the ME. One can blame Blair for being overly naive though about US intentions (to get their greedy fingers on Iriaqi oil), the lack of a strategy (other than Rumsfeld's 'schock and awe') and the lack of any interest in possible worst case scenarios after Hussein was disposed of. But we're talking 2003 here, just 2 years after 9/11 and clear signs that Al Qaeda was spreadig its wings in Mesopotamia as well (which proved to be a correct assessment by intelligence). I find the term "mass murderer" a stretch too far, but I agree that with the luxury of hindsight, this wasn't Blair's finest moment.
He understands political strategy and how to get power , but he has no political beliefs. He did nothing to reverse Thatcherite policies and he introduced PFIs to the NHS leaving it saddled with a gigantic £80 Billion debt.
@@lewisner Not certain about that. I think Blair knows all too well, that one cannot have a sustainable Labour government if that reverses every single Thatcherite measure. Don't forget: ultimately the swing vote (pretty conservative middle class voters mainly) determines the outcome of elections, not the steadfast supporters. Look at how Corbyn faired: a man of principle to the very last but with very little popular support. That's the problem in all of politics in a democracy, one has to be able to make a lot of compromises if one is to realize only a fraction of his beliefs. That is sad enough in itself, but I can't remember any politician winning an election on persuasive arguments and facts. It's all about (broad) appeal I'm afraid. Something Blair had (and rightfully lost) and now Johnson seems to have.
I agree, his policies were far from ideal and he might have done a better job. But keeping all frogs in one basket is easier said than done, unfortunately. One has to be quite the pragmatic manager beside being an idealist to make things work. That is the honest truth and one few are willing to hear about or acknowledge.
I'm not a Blairite, but sometimes I feel the need to put some perspective between the justifid outrage. I know, I'm a bit of a wanker ;)
Kirsty is really pissing me off taking her glasses off and putting them back on!!!!
She is a horror.
If u wore specs.....then u wud understand.....
@@neerajbenjamin9264 I do wear specs, ask questions before you make assumptions.
@@MrTonycoughlan wotever
I do wish political interviews would interview, instead of just searching for the headline.
This. Soooo this!
Never thought about it that way... so true
Feed up with up the feminist
Did this cretin ever have anything to add to the world? I see deaths that it created, certainly never saw any depth to the meglomaniac gibberish that came out of it's mouth.
Going into Iraq was a terrible mistake.
On the other hand it gave Iraqis a chance to rid themselves of Saddam's terrible, disgusting, obscene regime. A regime that carried out torture, rape, murder and gassing of its own people. We didn't have to live under that obscene regime - they did.
Marty, I'm an iraqi born man. You are right the regime was not good. But what came after is 100+ Saddam's ruling our government. You have no idea what the war did to my country and people. It destroyed its social fabric and took it back 100 years. It created a vaccume for ISIS, and Iran control over a sovereign country. This is WORST than any dictatorship. The true terrorists were all those involved in the Iraq war. I love the UK and the people and 9 voted conservative but I will never forgive what the governments did to my home country.
@@martydav9475, might I ask if your views are similar on Gaddafi ?
Treckorz,
I've met some very interesting and chilled people from your place of birth, in U.K. & Aus.
You mention the u.k. and the vote.
By now you've seen the lies that took the allied nations over there, who told the lies and just what the
"western nations" people's and service people's know & feel..?
Anyways, thanks for sharing your words and perspective.
People need to know 😉
smallpicture a lie
Love him or loathe him, but he’s spot on about the crisis facing the Labour Party.
@Darth Pepe I lived in the north and they've very short memories of how they were treated by Tories .... And most northern towns don't even have a big Immigration issue. In North Yorkshire/Co Durham/ Northumberland etc there're barely any, never mind what people think, I lived there and saw first hand just how little immigration there was. Blair isn't true labour he's a purple Tory - who was edging ever further to centre right!
That's how he won 3 elections because the right-wing press accepted him!
He's always had the gift of the gab, I'll say that for him
@@johnpaton6869 Labour can identify as Socialists all they want but it dosent make it so, these people are not Socialists because they treat the working class like garbage, just lab rats for there spiteful and devisive social engineering.
@Darth Pepe you're chatting complete rubbish! The bankers put this country in a mess through complete greed!! Not by Blair funding the NHS and other public services 🙄
@Darth Pepe born and raised in Liverpool myself. You don't represent many people who live here- quite the opposite actually
“Labour last pm” Gordon brown would like a word
Who?
@@stephenmurray2851 He was one of the worst PM in history.
@@jasonkingshott2971 All labour PMs normally are
@@stephenmurray2851 ...or criminals don't forget!
@wakenbaker-uk ...and people listen and are still listening to this clown!
The reason that Labour got such a kicking was because they’re went against Brexit and ignored the wishes of hard core labour voters
Corbyn also played a significant role
Correct
@@samcad-ho3ze incorrect
Plus people rejected Corbyn & communism, until that stops, they will be in the wilderness
As much as I hate Blair, he is right here
Tru Say Mi Bredrin...
He sounds more stressed now than he ever did as PM.
He is suffering the torment for what happened in Iraq and it will haunt him for the rest of his days.
The man who built the New Labour is also the one who destroyed it.
Robin Jackson He won’t be sorry. He is stressed because of Brexit more like
he's stressed because he's power hungry and a megalomaniac but he has no way of influencing events. He should enjoy the massive wealth he has accumulated since leaving office and go quietly, he's no longer relevant or respected.
Perhaps because the country is in a far worse state now than it was during his premiership.
You know it's real bad when Tony fucking Blair starts to talk sense.
Yeah I know
to be fair, he is a very good speaker.
He's a liar. RIP Dr David Kelly.
@@solargold9213 He's extremely intelligent and perceptive. I'm much further left than him, but imo he's well worth listening to.
Also, he is the last Labour leader to win. And the only one to win in my lifetime (5 conservative leaders have won in my life). So he has some idea at how to make Labour electable
Blair started the whole immigration mess.
ROBERT POLATAJKO 30 Jun 2019 7:36PM
Labour are liars. No one should vote Labour because of it's appalling record from 1997 to 2010. Now Corbyn is descending into outright Marxism.
Here is the Labour legacy
- Iraq and Afghanistan
- Rotherham grooming and abuse scandal, Mid Staffs NHS scandal, Birmingham schools Islamic fundamentalism Trojan horse.
- Continued anti Semitism and support for terrorists.
- Increased political correctness, particularly in the education system to brainwash children.
- Policy run by the Unions
- Started HS2, stuffed us with NHS PFI
- Sowed the seeds of the destruction of the Union with lopsided devolution, ignoring England.
- Destroyed the final salary pension system
- Gave away our EU rebate
- Sucked up to the bankers creating horrendous consequences for britain in the global recession taking a generation to fix
- Gave away sovereignty through Lisbon and the Human Rights Act
- Abused state finances with 0.7% overseas aid pledge
- Halved manufacturing from 22% to 11% of gdp
- Abolished Primary Purpose Rule and allowed immediate A8 accession allowing 7 million immigrants into Britain 1997 to 2010 in a deliberate attempt to build its voting base.
- Sucked up to crony public sector Unions by inflating pay and pensions of an unreformed public sector
- Did nothing to invest in our infrastructure.
- Imposed postal voting extension open to political corruption.
- Spent so much money on Labour cronies that we had a 5% structural deficit at the height of the boom.
- Impoverished millions with the Climate Change Act of alternative energy zealotry.
- Created the conditions in which thousands died unnecessarily in the NHS
- Created the catastrophe of multicultural extremism.
- Allowed failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants to stay in Britain.
- Sent our military to wars under equipped
- Failed to secure our borders.
- Sold off our gold at rock bottom prices
- Created hundreds of quangoes to carry out Labour ideology and stuffed them with socialist placemen.
- Created welfare as a lifestyle, with the totally dysfunctional tax credit system, and the catastrophe of excessive housing benefit
I am sure there is much more incompetence, self interest and cronyism but who would vote for Labour Based on that record ?
And then there's all the orchestrated lies and accusations of paedophilia and murder spread by Tom Watson against innocent men. Watson (knowing Carl Beech as he undoubtedly did) knew it was lies. And yet Labour hierarchy and grandees like Harriet Harman and her husband Jack Dromey actively supported, and advocated for known paedophiles in the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
Labour and its socialist following are utterly disgusting.
I think it was Julius Caesar and William The Conqueror actually. Oh... and the Vikings, and the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
@@mit6635 I don't know how you look at mass immigration and see it as a positive, as constructive. Especially with the state of the NHS
@MrQuidestveritas tell that to Rotherham
@MrQuidestveritas They're all certainly factors, but there is no getting away from the fact that drastically increasing the population puts pressure on society at all levels.
I’m actually reevaluating my thoughts on new labour.
He understands the British people more than Corbyn does. Most don’t want radical left or radical right. They just want things to work, to be affordable, to have good public services and be able to put some money aside for a rainy day.
Corbyn is the problem. He is like the problem child of Justin Trudeau totalitarianism and Anthony Fauci deception. Labor are comiting political suicide. On the other hand. Blair biggest problem was his foreign policy acting as Bush's lacky.
@@masnwrdl0511 no they aren’t.
85% of the population is white.
Gammon.
@@masnwrdl0511 Calm Down Mein Furher
Yeh Blair really looked after this country well didn’t he?! 🤪. Evil
Time has shown you to be right. Corbynism has alienated Labour voters from their party.
Of all the UK political parties, Labour is, I am convinced, the most difficult to lead.
Ironically so. tories should be the hardest yet any bumbling idiot can lead them to a majority election
Leading the long march of progress will always be harder than the defence of the status quo. Look at any progressive movement in history and it has been lead by progressives and resisted by conservatives. Anti-slavery, woman’s suffrage, the NHS, gay rights, workers rights, anti-war movements. In every single case, before they’re enacted and accepted on the back of a progressive movement, they’re revisited and attacked by a conservative establishment.
@@chrispeacock1257 gay rights? you mean gay marriage? Progressives have also destroyed the meaning of biological sex, nuclear family and undermined the nation-state by embracing global migration.
@@chrispeacock1257 “Progressives” are so headstrong about “‘moving forward”, they don’t bother to look beneath their feet. They’d step off a cliff and claim it was progressive.
Society needs conservatives. Left to its own devices, the left would have society implode.
difficult leading a bunch of morons
Still a war criminal who should be in jail
true; but he's right on this and you know it; painful!
Which of the Geneva convention (the complete set of war crimes) are you referring to when you label him a war criminal?
Where I get hazy is the UN resolution saying Hussein needed to be removed if he continued to eject inspectors.
So, the whole war criminal thing, that’s codshit isn’t it?
Look he was wrong on the war as Bush was but Tony Blair is right the Labour Party they went too far left as some in the Democrat Party have here in the US.The far left promise way too much with no way too pay for it like free college for all I don't want too pay for someone too go to college and fuckoff and get drunk they flunk out,then have the far right loons who want too force their religion on everyone and want to cut Medicare and Medicaid and food stamps the poor depend on.
Ian... are you stoned? Are you that full of bitter, twisted vitriol about removing an actual dictator who murdered tens of thousands with poison gas that you would have the state reinstate capital punishment to execute blair?
I am deeply morbidly curious as to your logic. Please enthral us with your thoughts as to why it would be justified.
@@memphismemphis462 in my country there is free college ...and thank god becuse i have no money ...
This is a reasoned response to what happened to his party. The sad thing for him is that many in his own party believe that they weren’t extreme enough.
You mean like left wing values the party was founded on ?
@@slipperywinston4076 There's left wing values, and then there's Corbynism which is FAR FAR LEFT.
As much as I dislike Blair and as much as I like Corbyn as a person, Labour are finished unless they elect a centre left leader. You cannot win an election on a hard left platform.
Seems centre left these days is viewed as being to the right of thatcher.
@@jgmediting7770 Yikes. So what does that make Johnson and the current Tory mob?!
Mr Red - given far right parties are backing Johnson and telling their members to join the Tory party, and old tories like major and others were telling people not to vote Tory, take a guess.
Though ultimately, the tories are what they’ve always been, the party whose core objective is looking after the interests of the rich elite at everyone else’s expense, and they’ll move wherever they need to be to get enough votes to achieve power so they can carry out that objective. Achieving power and carrying out that objective is their only guiding principle.
The fact the business propaganda system has moved the Overton window a long way to the right over the past 40 years explains why the so called centre ground has moved right of thatcher and the old centre left is now described as far left. The 50s/60s Tory government’s would be described as left wing today, and would have been attacked constantly if up against Johnson’s party in this election. That’s how far right the general public have been manipulated by decades of business propaganda. Labour’s policies were centre left at this election. Middle of the road social democratic, like numerous other European countries.
JGM Editing Wow. Congrats on totally misreading the general political landscape. 🙄
JGM Editing you talk rubbish,torys support business,which are the wealth creators,labour want to destroy capitalism and make everyone poor .
Not a fan of Blair, but this interviewer is terrible in the way she punctuates his responses with statements and questions which interrupt the flow of the exchange.
Retrosta a really good point, I was thinking the same about her interruptions.
Yes, it wasn't as if Blair was prevaricating or avoiding. Probably they have their prompt sheets with the expected answers laid out and then the supplementaries they use. So if it's not going in one of the production team's proscribed directions, the interviewer has to try and get it back on track.
he's like a whiny preacher who is just bothered about power and not ideology.
@@davedogge2280 If you don't know when to compromise and when to push for your ideals you won't end up with the power to apply them. Blair ended up drastically over compromising (to put it mildly) and Corbyn ended up drastically under compromising. Blair may be many things, but at least he's pragmatic enough to realise the gap between where Labour and the electorate are in terms of ideology.
@@davedogge2280 : to some people the ideological struggle might seem purer in opposition, he might say. It's certainly just turned out nice for them.
He was so on the ball over Brexit and how in time people would see how disastrous it was
Tony Blair: "7:17 You can't win on Brexit" Boris Johnson: "Hold my beer..."
I think he was saying Labour specifically couldn't win on Brexit, specifically because the base was split 60/40 on it anyway, so allowing the entire election to revolve around Brexit and the will of the people, Labour ceded the strategic advantage very early on.
@Derreck Jones But in 2019, if Labour had promess to uphold the result, MANY people would have voted Liberal Democrat. In 2017, the Lib Dem also promessed to uphold the result, which was always a joke. In any case, nobody voted for them. But just before Labour finally revealed their brexit policy, they were polling at 19 %, VERY CLOSE to Labour, because they actually said clearly that a vote for the Lib Dem was a vote to cancel Brexit.
I don't think Labour had really any chance to win this election.
He was talking from a left-wing/Labour perspective.
The fire in his belly is back!
She doesn't give him a chance to speak, to open up. He has nothing to defend here. Why do political interviewers take this "gotcha" approach rather than wait to hear what their subject says?
Its annoying
streetlegalone .... balls, she lets him finish every point before asking the next question.
It's what Kirsty Wark does to all Labour heads,her and Laura are timid around the Tories!
It’s a female style because they’re not good at logical deduction
I can't help but respect his intelligence, history of electoral success and his political instincts. Labour could do far worse than listen to some of his strategy advice.
No they shouldn't. This man single handedly ruin Britain. Destroyed our international perception. Help with the rise of China. Destabilised a whole region and with millions of deaths by his hands. All the while making him self rich and becoming an ambassador to the area he helped destroy. Feckless shape of a man. Inform your self
@@muglypunt968 Haha singlehandedly ruined Britain? If anyone did, it was Thatcher; we’re still living in her blasted, ruined political and social wasteland of a legacy. Helper with the rise of China? Oh my, you are sadly deluded if you think anything anyone in the UK did had any effect of note on China’s growth. Their economy grew by around 10% a year for thirty years, and still going at around 5/6%. And that started well before Blair’s tenure. Blair made a terrible error in following Bush into Iraq, but also bear in mind that the Americans were there too. It wasn’t just us; in fact our force barely scratched what the Americans sent.
But in any case this is about whether Blair ruined Britain. Blair’s domestic agenda wasn’t perfect, but it was good. It resulted in significant improvements in the performance and service of the NHS, investments in education and public services, significant reductions in poverty. Was forward looking about climate change and the opportunities in new industries and technologies around that. The Tory hegemony since has simply been an effort to reverse all those gains and re-cement the power and wealth of those at the top, whilst retaining a fucking stupid, blinkered, short termism that’s seen us lag behind on climate change and the shift to new technologies when we could (and would have been under Labour) have been leading the world. Really as simple as that.
@@dreamer2260 he opened the door to millions of immigrants that have gutted the working class, as well as creating deep cultural divides that will only worsen. Sold us hook line and sinker to EU tied economy. He would have given away the pound but it was luckily held on to. Created a war that threw us further in to a unpayable debt and made us look like America's lap dogs on a world stage. Yeah yeah Thatcher..... The left has been killing this country for decades and normal people have woken up to that fact. Either the Labour party waked up or it gets destroyed. They have no connection to normal people and the conservatives are going to keep crushing them until they get off their suicide path of self mutilation. Which I personal find hilarious but here we go
@@dreamer2260 also the NHS has become untenable, education has only gotten worse since Blair and the government handouts are at an all time high. This is not sustainable and the Tory's have had to counter this with every spell in charge they have had. I'm no Tory but labour are evil. Using good intentions to cripple us financially, spirituality and socially. You can thank them when everything collapses. How can we support an ever growing social system without massive tax hikes? Why should normal people be forced to pay for others that don't care?
@@muglypunt968 you do realise open immigration is a right wing idea, right? Freedom of movement is a fundamentally capitalist idea, as freedom of workers to move around the globe is ideal for corporations. Also, many EU immigrants (poles) have a net surplus in how much they contribute to the economy, essentially they put more in than out.
Blair: we needed a second referendum
Blair: unions say they listen to the working class then ignore them
That makes no sense. You do realise that a referendum involves giving people a vote? Leavers would have been just as entitled to vote in it as anyone else
@@barry1369 He certainly isn’t a career politicians. Even the Old Labour heads who disliked him didn’t consider him a career politicians and denounced such claims. Come on, who would have wanted a career with Labour during Foot?
He means we needed to give him whatever he wanted. He is a sick b*stard! He was caught cottaging boys when he was younger.
@@manaih5652 I think that’s precisely why he joined the Labour Party, as a destitute organisation it was much easier to take over and mould in his image.
The Unions have always ignored the working man or woman
Blair is a war criminal, whose hands are full of blood of Iraqi children, yet he smiles always, shame on you!
"I wanted to do everything I could to stop Brexit"
Says all you need to know...
Exactly
and so it does and rightly too.
@@elwynjones763 you thought he should have stopped Brexit?
If he was smart, he would have campaigned for Brexit. That would've helped remain far more.
@@gwmcd no one would have believed him and he'd have to admit working against the country to sign us away in the first place after a promised referendum he'd reneged on, not to mention he's nationally despised, we see through that shite
You can see why he was a leader.
He looks and sounds professional.
Yep.
Professional multi-millionaire liar.
@@thedukeofswellington1827 yes, but one who also kills thousands of innocent people.
@@user-pk4sd9dd2w yawnnnnnn
Matthew Hendy RIP Dr David Kelly.
Well, I like him and think he’s a brilliant thinker and communicator. His analysis is spot-on.
Completely agree. Ignore the rabid haters. Most of them have had their hate drilled into them by the Tory press.
He rightly Cained Clown Corbyn
I don't like Blair but he talks a lot of sense here
He always talks a lot of sense. and he knows how to win elections. For all his failings - he is/was a very good politician
Until he goes on about denying a democratic vote
@@philread7668 Yep, exactly.
"Labour's last prime minister"... Gordon Brown is forgotten
Who???
@@johnmac1960 Justifiably so.
@@johnmac1960 Gordon Brown
Hmm.....The Scot...who lost Five Billion Of Gold Bullion in a bad, bad deal........Brown....Prime Minister But Not by Public Vote at Election Time!
Gordon Brown didnt win an election. Tony Blair is last elected labour PM
I love the way Tony Blair takes no credit for Brexit
Blair should take a lot of credit for Brexit, with all his and his cronies pro EU preaching, as a result, most of the great British public did the opposite, thanks Tone, and sorry about your future EU income.
He's not responsible, the Conservatives, particularly the ERG ARE!"!!
@@bryangeake5826 The Great British public are democratically responsible for leaving the racket called the EU.
Blair was just one conduit in their decision making process. After all these years, he still doesn't get it but, thanks tone.
@@jasonkingshott2971 Racket?? For every £1 we put into the EU the UK economy benefits via the customs union and free trade areas status with a £16-17 Trillion economy on our doorstep to the ratio of £6. Through better prices, better investment opportunities, improved access to capitol and flexible labour supply!! If thats a racket, more please!!
@@jasonkingshott2971 The ENGLISH public. The parts of the English public with an inflated sense of English exceptionalism.
BEST PM EVER!! LOVE U TONY!!
Is that why so many people hate him and would like to see him executed?
I like how the Labour party gets the idea that it would be nice to hire a woman but the most important thing is they need to be the right person for the job. But only when they're talking about picking their own leader.
The British electorate refused to hire a communist government. After four losses, the last loss being a route, maybe it might be a great idea to shift back to the middle and give up your communist dreams of utopia...
The Labour party also thinks that if their next leader has a northern accent, everything will be fine!
@@stevetattersall5933 ............Or God forbid, a Birmingham one !
wildebest - it’s human nature to be drawn to charismatic people..
@wildebest Boris is honest?... Wow, I wouldn't say any politicians are honest
He talks a lot of sense. There is no longer a cohesive working class based on occupation as there was in the ‘70s. Labour has to appeal to a new constituency
The working class is generally defined by its social conservatism Johnson did well to appeal to that labour has rejected that with crazy virtue signal liberalism
BOB Supple Exactly. This is why the labour MP’s had been trying to get Corbyn out for years prior- they knew attracting the young urbanites with their SJW liberal tendencies would alienate their base. Lo and behold.
On the contrary, the cohesive working class in the North voted solidly for Brexit and felt abandoned and betrayed by the 'middle class Londoners' running Labour. Tony Blair wanted a stronger REMAIN stance and was part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Sauron Merciful it could take 5-10 year as long as it happens. Thats the mane thing.
The only hope for Labour now is to elect a leader with deep trade union roots
Then maybe they can win a election again...
Its lucifer himself
Law T it’s strange, bcuz that’s EXACTLY what the tories are all about, yet labour did it!?
Law T wdym? I hate both tories and labour dw, I’m more of a Nigel farage guy
I know it’s the trendy thing to call him a war criminal, but can we try and remember what he did right? If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have a minimum wage, we’d still have to pay for state education, the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland may not have been signed for another ten years, most of the people of Kosovo would have been slaughtered by a war criminal, Saddam Hussein (another war criminal) would have killed even more innocent people and he also allowed LGBT people to be in legal civil partnerships. The deaths in Iraq wasn’t a good idea I’ll admit but I’ve seen too many people here completely forget about the other things he did. Not to mention, he knows how to get things done (He won three elections and allowed the Labour Party to enjoy success it hadn’t seen since it was ran by Harold Wilson in the 60s and 70s). It’s an unpopular opinion and may garner some hate but I think he’d be doing a far better job than Boris is currently doing. Blair is actually smart and understands politics and gives educated, coherent answers even on issues like Brexit compared to the bumbling, scripted rants and blurts of the sexist, racist and inept pig in office now who I’d wager can’t even tie his shoe laces by himself (he can barely sort his hair out or string a sentence together). I’d personally be happy to see him return to power.
Bloody well said. I'd vote for him in an instant. Sadly it's extremely unlikely. But yes he's always interesting to listen to.
Devolution was a very bad mistake for this country and also so many going to University and indoctrinated. The Labour are not for working class anymore
"I don't care if someone disagrees with me"
Yes, we noticed, Tony.
@@joebloggs3551 He was extremely good at befriending Rupert Murdoch.
@@joebloggs3551 1) Of course people still read newspapers, especially the over 50s (who decide elections). It's also not just newspapers he owns, he has an entire media empire repeating the same messages and dictating the national conversation. Why do you think advertising is so effective? Because it works. Politics/News is no different. Rupert Murdoch's media empire has backed every election winning party since the 70's, including the Brexit referendum.
2) That stuff about education is right wing conspiracy theory BS which there is literally no evidence for.
@@joebloggs3551 Yeah it is actually, it's a great argument. Why? because it's based on fact. People have studied this shit. It's a fact that every side he's backed since the 70s has won, you can go and look it up and everything.
So your idea is that what, Labour bribe teachers with public sector spending so that they'll teach left wing ideas to kids? Given that Labour has been out of power for 10 years, I'm not sure you've thought that through.
Could it not just be that Labour wants to increase education spending so that your children receive a better education and more opportunities in life? Or so that teachers can afford to live properly while they teach your kids?
@@joebloggs3551 Right, and how long ago was that?
@@joebloggs3551 Love how you've just dropped all the "Labour are bribing teachers to brainwash kids" bollocks on the slightest bit of questioning
I'm still a Labour voter, even though I voted Conservative this election. The far left policies have to go! Who wants Communism in 2019? Its terrifying to think we haven't learnt from history!
Ok Jake what policies would bring you back to Labour?
I would have gone Green or something rather than Blue if I wanted to protest. There will be a lot of nasty right wing stuff the Tories will do claiming they have a mandate for it.
Is Denmark a communist country ? Is Finland? You bought Conservative Newspapers narrative hook, line and sinker.
@@alexmood6407 I disagree - I am left wing, but could not vote for Corbyn - character issues aside , such as the endless deselections of his own MPs - Labour has no actual government experience anymore. A centre left, progressive platform would have seemed achievable and appealed. 'Free everything & only the rich will pay' is fantasyland stuff
spoken like a person who has no idea what communism is, embarrassing. I'm Russian, trust me I know. Jeremy Corbyn is no communist. And what we're heading towards now is Putin's Russia instead, buckle up.
Blair should be given as a peace offering to Iraq.
@historypoliticsbb Anyone that looks after their own people and Corbyn is only interested in anyone that is not native English. None of them are but Corbyn is an active racist.
@historypoliticsbb Every molecule in my body tells me not to vote Labour and I have been about long enough to know why.
Conservatives give most of my money to their mates and Labour would give the lot to every lost cause so long as it ain't English.
@historypoliticsbb Take your pick all obsolete. You could put some money into the English Democrats and pray.
Most certainly a criminal....
Roll on the Day of the Rope...
I’ve seen worse than him.
nightbreed REECE In general. I can name four criminals off the top of my head:
Hitler, Stalin, Harvey Weinstein and Saddam Hussein
Also, Blair was a ROCK to us in NI, yes a rock; he did his part in securing peace and suffered many hardships. If he is to be judged, then let him be so in equal measure at the least, let’s try to salvage some good out of his premiership as well, hmmm?
Which law, out of interest?
nightbreed REECE “war crimes” isn’t a law though, is it? It’s like saying the “business broke employment law” (ok which one?)
Which specific war crime is it? Which Geneva convention was broken? Genocide? Practising Perfidy? Child soldiers? Allowing Torture? Taking of Hostages?
If you’re demanding to send someone to jail, at least be a bit specific
Did anyone else notice his hair parts CENTRE LEFT?
And
Great. He is centre left.
@wildebest that's the most Tory comment ever.
@wildebest
1. Tony Blair's hair is parted left of centre.
2. The Chief Rabbi proscribed the Labour Party as being anti-Semitic. That is fact that we are proscribed, and we can't do anything about it.
@wildebest tl;dr
Speak to the Hague because the hand is not hearing
Hahahahahhahaa
Belter haha
Blair never fails to appear as a ventriloquist's dummy
Terrible interviewer but nevertheless Blair displays his formidable insight into British politics and the Labour Party. We’ve not had a leader like him since.
0:00 She calls him 'Tony BEAR!" 🐻 😂
wow so funny
Not as funny as Victoria Derbyshire's version of Jeremy Hunt! 🤣🤣🤣
Lol
"Boris was locked in a box and we handed him the key to get out of the box"
You locked the country in a box, not just Boris.
Bran the Broker he’s not in government or parliament. How did he do any locking?
I’m very excited to hear how he managed to do that having been out of government for the last 14 years?
Why is he still not in prison his action in middle east have led to millions of deaths and the destabilising of the world?
He's spitting straight facts
I love interviews like this one where the interviewer is trying to trap them but they refuse to fall into those traps.
Lol. Tony Blair is a corrupt dumb fuck. Literally a non-serious propagandist.
LOL...he fell into every trap .... he exposed labours hypocrisy !
You should inform your self quickly. There are evil people pretending to be good and with your help they get power. Tony Blair is a monster. Labour have been for a very long time.
Tony Blair, the war monster was just a right-wing planted into labour.
The interviewer is absolutely infuriating. So unprofessional
Dunno why the opinions of this war criminal is still taken seriously.
Oh get real! Iraq may not have been his finest hour but let's not throw out the baby with the bath water! This is a man who won three elections in a row and was the last Lab leader actually to win a general election .... He presided over a moderate, progressive, social democratic government that wasn't infused with the hatred of patriotism, anti-semitism and jaw-dropping economic illiteracy that was Corbyn's toxic prescription. Come back Blair....your country needs you!
seerjc123 he accelerated the selling off of the NHS and put it into debt. He's vile. Jeremy is not anti Semitic not matter how hard you try to will him to be. 🤦🏻♀️ what a bunch of gullible subjects. And his manifesto is being revered around the world as exemplary. Keep reading the Sun 😂
May be because he won 3 general elections 🤔.
The 'illegal war' was not purely Blair's fault, Blair only decided to intervene in middle Eastern affairs over the false information he and bush received, this was his only downfall trusting information that was not true in the hopes of protecting world affairs. In reality he changed Britain's view of the left with him arguably swinging right and reformed the Labour party from neoliberal Thatcherism. If you want to dwell on a war started by false information and the need of protection for the British people, then your not ept for politics.
@@marcibelle4462 Jeremy is a member of the tribe, they're just reading from a script handed to them by the bankers, they know the vast majority of people dont want a communist world government and hate Labour for sh1tting on the working class in favour of MASS immigration and social "justice" AKA cu1tura1 marx1sm.
We're supposed to believe that the reason for all this hate is that Labour "pretend" to criticise the supremacist religion of the bankers. They're just trying to stem the growing awareness amongst the overwhelmingly nationalist populace, that the religion of the bankers is behind all of our woes whether we consider ourselves left or right !
it goes something like You hate Corbyn right, well he hates )ews so that means us )ews are on your side, and you should make "antisemitism" your number one weapon against him, the wellbeing of the self proclaimed "ch0sen people" is more important than EVERYTHING else ! Only it hasn't worked because the vast majority couldn't give two sh1ts about the bankers being criticised, they're more concerned with fulfilling Brexit and stopping mass immigration !
Tony Blair is all about power, he represents EU interests over UK people every time.
George Laird , nothing wrong with the argument , he laid out here .
And Bojo represents US interests over UK people every time, too. Lets face it, does anyone give a fuck about us anymore?
Blair and the bbc, its what nightmares,are are made of, were is Owen, Soubry, Miller, and Grieve ?? The bbc ''Where truth and integrity go to die''
Like CNN here in the states worthless and liars
Wow, Kirsty all over the place on this one
I’m not impressed with her at all, seen a few flaky interviews lately
@wildebestagree all GOTCHA bs they use
@@curiositypiqued6573 He needs got, he's a prize tosser.
@@scottw3780 Bollocks. Every question she asks is worthy. Maybe too uncomfortable for your leftist sensibilities. Tough.
@MetaPat She's anything but "over the place". What an idiotic comment to make.
Only in the great, great nation of England. Free airtime for war criminals.
Conjecture. No proof.
@@steffanhoffmann8937 Uh huh. We all know all those dead people in that far away sovereign country came suddenly falling out off the sky just when the Brits flew uninvitedly over.
Moron.
Erik Wouda You are the moron if you think Saddam Hussein had sovereignty over the people he systematically tortured and murdered.
@@EVSmith-by9no You are the moron if you think Blair's cure was better than Saddam. Just look at the >1 to 2,4 million deaths in the aftermath of this illegal war.
Got friends in Irak that reached out to me when IS was just 25 km from their homes. All that would never have happened if Blair (and Bush) hadn't had their hubris.Just before Blair and Bush invasion they stated to me: "Saddam is a dick, but the US is pure evil".
It is a family that once had to flee Irak for Saddam, mind you. They very well know what they are talking about.
In other words the majority will of the British people was locked in a box and we let it out.
So, war criminal, liar - and hypocrite!
He actually believes what he is saying
what hes saying is totally correct (for a change)... thankfully it doesn`t matter anymore and he and corbyn are now totally irrelevant
He’s 100% right on this! Regardless of what you think of him post Iraq, the man won 3 elections (including post Iraq) - he’s a master political strategist. He knows what does or doesn’t win elections.
@@JoelWende Maybe he's just another political psychopath who doesn't mind what damage he does along the way.
@@None-zc5vg That may or may not be true. None of that stops him being correct in what he's saying here!
Long live momentum, keeping labour out of power for years to come.
Yes, I'm hoping they will lunge even more to the left. That's what they did with Miliband and the Tories got a majority. So what's their answer? Go more left and thy get a Tory landslide. Maybe, one day, the Lib Dems will be HM's official opposition. You never know.
@@ivorbiggun710 maybe, if they go further left or the same left policies, I think a lot of labour mps will break away set something more moderate up
this man is a natural and instinctive politician.
Yep. People of his talent come very rarely, especially on the left, sadly. We desperately need someone else of his calibre again, but I don't see anyone rising through the ranks.
He's far from perfect but speaks SO much sense. Where did these politicians go?
Yep. The decline in leadership quality since his day is so depressing. Went off a cliff really. Though in fairness Blair always was a remarkable political talent, and something of an outlier himself.
@@dreamer2260Apart from Clown Corbyn, and a few of his closest goons & Momentum, they're no where near as bad as the Tories.
@@user-sf7kl9uh7k Oh I totally agree on that don’t get me wrong. I think Labour’s long stretch now out of power also hasn’t offered huge incentives for talent to get involved with the party. Hopefully that will change now with our prospects looking up.
@@dreamer2260 Yup, just got to keep those sneaky self serving 'socialists' at bay. They're actually nothing of the sort, and are deeply unpleasant and divisive people.
*THIS IS WHY I DON'T PAY ME TV LICENCE*
I've built a lovely thick pile of threatening letters from TV licencing. I love reading through them from time to time and laughing.
@@yamabushi170 😂
same.. same..
*My you northern commoner.
What is wrong with this interview??
T.b lost his job in the eu ha ha
If true very funny
@Nigel 61 none of the brexiteeres give a fuck about the uk, they just see how they can make more money.
Cared so little they'd have lived through a depression for their Freedom and their own Nation.
With the Heart to Know, they'd not fail, and that stability would increase.
If that's greed, wait till ngo "influence" gets raized and all Nations gain their own sovereignty via self actioned charity and grace....
Greed, know thyself 😉✌️
he was banking on a top job in EU....ha ha....not now...!
he should be in jail for war crimes....
@@mrwideboy yes we do.....that is the point.....we fought for the very foundation of our democracy.....
So what yo are saying is, to coin a phrase, Labour have neither the people or the policies to be re-elected any time soon.
In a single word, yes ...
I am -- sadly -- old enough to remember both Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, and the battles they had with the 'looney left', as personified, in particular, by Derek Hatton. The result was the 1987 GE, which, effectively, locked Labour out for the next decade, despite even the best efforts of John Smith, arguably the Labour Party's best leader since Clement Attlee. Had he not tragically died in 1994, from a massive heart attack, there was a chance he may have been PM in 1997 ...
But to return to the original question, it looks like the latter day version of the 'Militant Tendency' has taken over almost the entire Labour Party. Those MPs, on the right of the party, were, and still are, dismissed as 'traitors' of, and to, Jeremy Corbyn, despite their repeated warnings that he was a severe liability, not least due to him calling Hamas and Hezbollah as 'friends'; those of a certain age, recalling Gerald Kaufmann's infamous 'longest suicide note in history' probably felt the same, again, about the last party manifesto.
So no doubt many in the PLP expected to lose. But not by as much; what has been oh so neatly brushed under the rug is that a longstanding MP, whom had held his seat for 49 years, and would have been named Father of the House, by dint of being the longest serving MP, lost his seat by a considerable majority. Ousting a MP who has represented his constituency for 49 straight nears was no easy thing, and a utter shock to me.
But, now the dust has settled, it was symptomatic of the utter distrust that even traditional, working class (read: Labour voting) constituencies had for the current leadership. And as loathed as I am to say this, the only way Labour will ever win another election, is if another moderate, like either a John Smith, or, -- gag -- Tony Blair is elected Leader.
In this, Tony Blair is, regrettably, correct: if Momentum/Far Left, stays in charge of the Labour Party, although people will still vote for them, the share of that the Party current has, will mostly likely crash, given enough time. I doubt it will drop as low as where the Lib Dems current are, at about 11-12%, but who knows ... since no one saw Dennis Skinner losing his seat, all bets are off ...
Don’t be sad! So am I - old enough to remember what you remember that is. It seems the Labour Party we knew is no more and perhaps that is because the needs/aspirations of the majority of working people have changed.
In fact the current Labour Party seem intent on fighting a 1950s style class war, which is daft given the standard if living that most working people have now. Income inequality becomes less of a problem when people feel deprived if they don’t own an iPhone. Which of course is not to say that poverty does not exist, only that real not relative poverty is small and a political movement will not gain enough momentum (sorry) if it relies on votes from such a small percentage of society.
I understand that it is tempting to hanker after times when societies problems seemed simpler - the wicked bosses and the downtrodden workers represented by the forthright and honest trades unions, who actually were not and are not so forthright and honest ( Do you remember the film ‘I’m All Right Jack’ staring Peter Sellers?)
Anyway my point is that we need an opposition, a relevant opposition that represents the interests of working people. The trick will be to identify and articulate exactly what those interests are or at least provides a more socially cohesive vision of how our society could be run.
Without a massive blunder by the Tories I see little chance of a Labour Govt for at least 10 years which gives plenty of time for policy development and good people to rise through the ranks replacing the ‘absolute shower’ (Terry Thomas quote from ‘I’m All Right Jack’) that are in place now.
You will have notice that I have not suggested any role for Tony Blair. Personally, I think he made good and bad decisions as PM, was deceived by G W Bush, felt he couldn’t admit to error and then sold out to globalist interests. He is just not likeable, is absolutely toxic to many voters and would be the kiss of death to Labour.
As a Brexiteer I can still respect Blair's sincerity and integrity - at least he hasn't turned into a bitter curmudgeon like Alistair Campbell
seems to be allusions to past wrongs in criticisms of mr blair ..... and i simply have no knowledge of it ..... but on the face of it, surely his views are at least worth airing
Sincerity and integrity!? He votes labour while disagreeing with the policies!!
It’s weird since I’m a remainer and I think the complete opposite of him. Anyway well done on winning the ref 👏👏
His description of Corbyn as “anti-Western” is... telling
john m well said
Jeremy Corbyn had less charisma than a stale baguette.
Absolutely
Which he was...and Corbyn will never beat Boris Johnson
@@davidraley3054Corbyn's a odious, divisive, and deeply unpleasant man
It really shows the dire state of politics when Tony Blair comes across as 'direct'... Like him or loathe him, he is a much more talented politician than this current crop put together.
Mike Hargreaves he has been direct, intelligent and thoughtful his entire career. Simply, now people can see past “war criminal” this “should be tried” that and actually listen to what this man has to say. He has always spoken sense, he’s an incredibly gifted and pragmatic politician and had to make decisions we couldn’t make as he was leading the whole country. It’s really beyond me why people reject Blairism (if that’s a word) and him as a prime minister - this country was fantastic when he was in power. Hopefully labour supporters will at least consider labour moving towards the centre again on certain policies.
@@ryanfreda9671 I think it was a case of live and die by the sword... Labour would have unlikely gained power without the support of the likes of Murdoch, however when the UK press turned against him, the public displayed how fickle they can be. It never ceases to amaze me how the public blames the Iraq war more on Blair than Bush, yet the Americans were responsible for nearly all the 'heavy lifting'. The danger of the persecution of Blair over Iraq means subsequent politicians will always avoid conflict even when the implications of taking no action are worse. Society's current nature of cynicism rather than scepticism worries me...
Mike Hargreaves couldn’t agree more
@@ryanfreda9671 Absolutely spot on.
This guy was the most successful labour leader Britain has ever had , 3 terms in power , a centre left position , not radical politics. and did not want to redistribute wealth. a winning formula .
Lol and your the kind of person who doesn't look deeper at what's really happening. This man crippled a whole region, ultimately leading to Europe's destabilisation. Gutted the working class by opening the doors to unchecked immigration. Selling out to big business and making himself extremely wealthy. All the while concreting the future to make sure labour never gets elected again till they finally get rid of the nonsense they utter and the moron they elect as leaders. Quite frankly I'd be happier if the Labour party get beaten so badly they get destroyed. They have ruined Britain domestically and internationally. Thanks to people like you who voted for them....
And a disgusting war criminal
"Centre left position". You didn't pay attention, did you? His Cabinet was full of hardcore Communists, and he was President of the Fabian Society. Blair had one agenda and that was to become the Life President of the EU. We scuppered that for him when we left that corrupt organisation.
Why isn’t he in jail?
He should be being interviewed in The Hague...not on the BBC.
So what he's taken from this that the British people shouldn't have been allowed a say on the matter, how predictable!
@Andrew Battersby see, what you guys haven't been told in the UK is that there's EU elections taking place every few years. You elected fucking FARAGE to the EU Parliament instead of sensible politicians who would push for policies to benefit your country
Because it was not on the agenda, only the Conservative party agenda. DC never thought he would lose, that’s why he resigned. Coward.
@@laurencelong In 1973 I voted for a TRADE Agreement ONLY with 6 AFFluent Countrues.
NOT to be part of some bureaucratic European Project...
@@laurencelong Time will tell Laurence....:)
1:00 "Don't give Boris a Brexit general elections". Sometimes it seems Blair hates democracy.
Brexit is anti-democratic and anti-European and anti-liberal.
Hardly. He didn't want a general election to resolve Brexit. He wanted a referendum exclusive to the matter of Brexit.
@@sebastianeastment4553 I am sure he did. Those funny EU guys always want another referendum if the first one doesn't go their way. Doesn't make him much of a democrat.
@@fleetstreet11 How brexit is anti-allofthat?
@@batner I think the Brexit referendum highlighted how silly it was to put the issue to to a straight in-out referendum. The issue was that "OUT" meant different things to different people. Many people who wanted to leave for instance probably wanted to remain in the Customs Union, while others would've wanted a hard Brexit - neither has got what they wanted. It's also become abundantly clear that a good chunk of the arguments Brexiteers employed during the referendum campaign have been proven entirely false, so there's a good case to host another referendum based on more accurate information available to the voters. Nevertheless, Labour stupidly allowed for the general election and thus Boris Johnson has won a democratic mandate to pass his Brexit deal. Coming from an international perspective I think that's a huge mistake for the UK and/or a rather destructive action globally, but it's what the English have voted for.
He's such an insincere person, you can see it in his eyes and body language. A total fraud.
I suspect the thing that Blair is most angry about is that his dream of one day becoming President of the EU will now never come true.
I think that's why most of the politicians don't want to leave the EU. They know that when the UK voters get sick of them they will find a nice, cosy sinecure there, with a fat salary, private jet and a pension. The EU was OK when it was just a free trade association. It went wrong when it became a political alliance as well. There are too many different national identities for it to work. I suspect that once we go others will follow.
@@mscott3918 once you go we'll laugh and laugh looking at your country breaking down to pieces and the people angrily asking to be let back in 😉
@Andrew Battersby except you're not even going to keep what comes before that deficit if Boris gets his loved hard brexit. See you're running a deficit in trade but 45% of your export (291bn) is going to be lost. Good fucking luck
@Qwfwq66 Not just but LOT & LOTS think like that......Hungary, Poland, Italy, Spain, along with US anti EU trade tariffs as well as Brexit.....keep up.
@Qwfwq66 Thanks Cpt Obvious that is what he posted. There is no fooling you!
Iran iraq afganistan tuition fees wow how can u tie them together sad
I have always admired Blair's hypermetropia minus the Iraq War.
He has an impeccable mind and understands that socialists need to move to the centre-right to win votes.
Centre-left. But yes, otherwise I agree, and cheers for teaching me a new word.
@@dreamer2260 THANKS
Socialists must go to the right politically they have abandoned the working class for Wokism and globalism.
A recent poll conducted with Labour Party members showed unbelievably that they considered Corbyn the best ever leader of the Labour Party . Not Blair , who won 3 elections or Wilson who won 2.or even Attlee the founder of the Welfare State , who won 1 .
Labour are doomed to self destruction if that's the case , picking Corbyn in a skirt to lead the party forward is the next step in that process
And the fact both those monsters are talked about positively shows why the Labour party is doomed to eradication. They are unfit for purpose and will probably die. Most people in Britain know Tony Blair is a monster and Corbyn is a communist.
Your comment is dated Flash forward 8 months and the Corbynist faction in the party has been muted, the Shadow front bench is mostly left of centre and Labour is ahead in the polls Would you like to review it?
@@jonnobloggs1139 No , not yet . The polls are meaningless at this point in time , the real poll, the next GE is far away . I see Sir Keith is trying to reposition Labour as a patriotic party , good move and not before time , but he is getting resistance from even his shadow cabinet . Pity he can’t bring himself to state a medical fact ,that only women have a cervix , in order not to upset the Trans community and the lefties .
This nonsense will never pass the pub test . Patriotism, policies that appeal to the aspirational working class and straightforward and honest communication with the people is what is needed to have a chance of getting into power again - even with the incompetence of the present Tory leadership .
Keir already has a cunning plan for your problem. At the weekend he will call himself Rebecca Long Starmer!!!
Labour; "self indulgence, misguided ideology and utter incompetence. The hand maiden of Brexit." Yep, says it all.
He wants to come back so badly.
odious treacherous creature will he ever go away .?
Just imagine if he was labour leader - we’d walk next election
He's a war criminal and should be on trial in The Hague for the war in Iraq.
GroomsdayBook.com Goes to show how detached you are. No Brit in their right mind would vote him. All he is known for is the Iraq war and mass immigration.
GroomsdayBook.com Wow! Seriously? He's probably the most hated man in Britain. I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember his Government?
GroomsdayBook.com Bliar is utterly discredited.
GroomsdayBook.com Great sarcasm 😂🤣
Like him or hate him, he successfully won 3 elections. 3 for Blair, 0 for Corbyn.
I despise him but yeah, he's an effective political operator for sure
She was awful, trying to create a headline rather than allowing him to express himself. Say what you like about Blair but for me he is right, Labour need a shift back to the centre left.
True.
Flat Eric I’m in the beers here so bear with me, but I just felt she was trying to get him to say he agreed with Johnson, that a pointless angle to take and irrelevant. But I hear she’s very well respected.
GORT I’m not sure the Iraq/war crimes is as black and white as that. I do think Blair is a good politician but I do wonder why we align ourselves with America’s foreign policy. Bill Clinton said that the UK was put in a very bad situation by the U.S.
We do not want left I have been travelling around Europe left 5 euros minimum wage in Cyprus
Funny how Clement Attlee who stood for similar ideals as Jeremy Corbyn was Britains most successful prime minister and yet Blair talks down on policies such as nationalisation and a bigger state. Attlee succeeded in his endeavours and Blair failed.
One of the world's most blind leaders of all time.
Very true
This man's handling of Iraq ultimately screwed labour. He's never admitted it.
Awesome interview. I didn't want to hear the former PM articulate his views on the recent election and the far-left takeover of the Labour Party. I wanted to watch Blair cut off every five seconds by an arrogant interviewer hell bent on tossing out nothing but gotcha questions. Very satisfying not having to watch ideas thoroughly examined and opinions completely fleshed out.
Hey it's Newsnight - what were you expecting?!😂
Sure would be nice if the interviewer would stop interrupting Mr. Blair and let him speak without her interjecting. We came to hear him, not hear you interject. It is not about you, Ms. Interviewer.
johnlybg nobody wants to hear tony Blair’s corpse speak. he needs to fuck the hell off
Our last good Prime Minister.
The only reason Labour won under Blair was because his policies were Centre ground and slightly to the right!
Whilst Labour stick to having a far left leadership and a position of socialism, then they will never win future elections!
Most voters in this country are middle ground supporters and that is the current position of the Conservatives.
The BNP are far to the right and don’t have many supporters and the socialist leadership of the Labour Party are far to the left and also a minority!
And those who think the Conservatives are far right, racist and facist should look up the definition of those words in a dictionary!
Those words have been banded around so often by the left that they no longer hold the same level of gravitas that they once did!
The Labour Party wouldn’t be in their current predicament if their leadership wasn’t so far to the left and they weren’t so aligned to the momentum movement!
i know why he didn't want to say he wants to be leader. cause they would never win under his name.
Do you realise the irony of your comment?
Are you a clai?revoyant
How did we get this weasel as our PM for 10 years ?
Because his one of the few in Labour that understands political strategy. 😕
karlosh because the people voted for him. Simple, now ask why Corbyn didn’t get in?
@@jinkertsun Yeah, unfortunately I was taken by his "waffle". So he got two votes out of me 97 and 2001 . Not 3 votes , i.e. 2005.
@@tranquilitybase8100 No, it was because the Tories so thoroughly destroyed themselves in 1997.
@@karlosh9286He is always right Blair what an egotistical person
His arrogance and lack of self awareness is stunning, in fact I would definitely say that this man is a sociopath or worse.
Hey Tone, say hello to the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of Iraqis and Afghanis you sentenced to a life worse than death.
This guy should be in the international docks defending himself against war crimes.
Why the BBC soft balls him like this implies complicity on their behalf.
Arrest that war criminal !
Tony Blair still around and still on tv, bring up the Iraq war again because we still don't know why we went to war and killed thousands.
Doing the dirty work for the elite n create greater Israel. Egypt next.
Now this is a politician not a protester masquerading as a politician. He knows what it takes to win and Labour with momentum pulling the strings are a million miles off .
Waffle about Iraq all you want but this man is a cut above anything we’ve got today and the best PM since the 40’s
The Turd has spoken.
The Labour leadership should hang their heads in shame for delivering a Tory Government
@Christopher Poole Like the devil, truth with lies.
@Christopher Poole A WAR CRIMINAL giving advices
He still doesn’t get that the majority of people want to leave the EU. The election proved that if there was a second referendum, leave would still win. The real problem with Labour is people like himself who continue to undermine the vote to leave and insist people voted Brexit for other reasons. People have had enough of undemocratic EU laws and open door immigration, it’s as simple as that.
By 'undemocratic EU laws', are you reffering to the laws which our democratically elected ministers and MEPs decide, vote, and ratify? The laws which we have voted 'no' for just 2% of EU legislation? Are you sure you're not mistaking it for the laws made in the UK which must pass through the House of Lords which welcomes hundreds of unelected peers... and fucking hereditary peers??
And by 'open door immigration', are you referring to its strictly controlled requirements of having a job, have sufficient resources for themselves and their family, not being a burden on the social assstance system, and have comprehensive sickness insurance cover in the country. ^[Article 7 of the Official Journal of the EU]. If you don't think it's been enforced well enough, it's on our government. Or have people 'had enough of the open door immigration' whereby EU citizens make up just 5% of our population but 10% of our doctors?
Brainwashed by the rags...
Brexit made this unwinnable for Labour and I believe that was the plan. It really isn't actually about Brexit at all - to the tories - it's about dividing opposition to maintain control no matter what. I would not be surprised if they are for Brexit, but prolonging the actual happening, while saying that they're ready to go whenever, gives them an incredible lead of power.
Guy who won 3 elections on a progressive platform having to explain himself to the ‘Corbynisters’ is a juxtaposition of the highest order.
Tony Blair is very clever and matches perfectly to my views. He's sensible.
He spends his life pleading for apologies. He has ruined this country.
He is indeed an intelligent man, and generally reasonable and humane.
Good guy but bad politician