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The former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair was a disaster for Britain. Under his period as Premier, the public sector declined in quality despite massive amounts of money being thrown at it. During the Blair period the middle class Left, which often hates working class Britons and is distinctly anti-nation, took control of vast swathes of public life from government departments, Quangos and charities. Under Blair we got the free speech killing legislation that protected troublesome ideologies from public criticism and he presided over a massive rise in unnecessary and unwanted immigration. Then there is the matter of Blair’s Wars, that did little to keep stable inherently unstable places like the Middle East.

However on one issue on which Blair has spoken recently, he seems to have got one thing correct and that is the electoral prospects of the Labour Party. He believes that the Labour Party is now in such an awful state that in order to unseat the Conservatives, Sir Keir Starmer’s failing party would need an electoral swing greater than that which propelled Labour to power in 1997.

To achieve such a swing would be a Herculean if not impossible task for Sir Keir. The task of winning back support is made even more difficult by the abandonment of Labour by Britain’s working classes who too often now see Labour as the party of the aggressive minority, the immigrant, the Islamic religious extremist and the snobbish and divorced from reality middle class Left.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, Blair believes that in order to be electable again then Labour need to reconnect with voters and a large part of that should be the party distancing itself from ‘wokeism’.

The Mail said:

Tony Blair has urged Labour to ’emphatically reject’ wokeism and push the party’s hard-Left factions ‘to the margins’ if it is to win power again.

The former prime minister urged Sir Keir Starmer to continue to bring Labour back to the middle ground.

That’s a fair point as we saw from the 2019 General Election where a Labour Party dominated by the far Left and by Jeremy Corbyn lost by its worst margin since 1935.

The Mail added:

Mr Blair argued the party has a ‘culture problem with many working-class voters’ and a ‘credibility problem’ with those in the centre of the political spectrum.

Setting out a four-point plan for how Labour can return to government, Mr Blair – who was in Downing Street for a decade – said leader Sir Keir should ‘continue to push the far-Left back to the margins’ of the party.

He also argued that so-called ‘woke’ views should be rejected.

‘We should openly embrace liberal, tolerant but commonsensical positions on the ‘culture’ issues, and emphatically reject the ‘wokeism’ of a small, though vocal, minority,’ said Mr Blair.

He said any future policy agenda should be centred on ‘an understanding of how the world is changing’, suggesting that the ‘technology revolution should be at the heart of it’.

Again it’s difficult to disagree with Blair’s prescription of rejecting Wokeism and side-lining the far Left as well as championing technology. Becoming the party that it once was, a party that was very much pro-working class and which existed to give the working class a voice in Parliament, is the sensible way to go.

But the big questions for me are: Will Sir Keir Starmer take this route? Is it possible that the Labour Party is now too far gone for policies like this to be put into place that will make Labour a credible party of government again? Also we must not discount the possibility that even if Labour make such changes, will the electorate believe that they have changed or will they see it as just more dishonest electioneering?

The Labour Party is no doubt in very deep trouble that is obvious. Whether they can climb out of the rancid political pit that they’ve dropped themselves into is quite another matter.