Because globalism is good for corporations, and corporations are people, my friend! Therefore Globalism is good for people, and since you're a person, it's good for YOU!

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Yes, there is a large amount of snark here.

was in her way. Blair saw the opportunity to sell out the working class Labour base and move the party into the traditional Tory space vacated by the Thatcherites who went all in for the pretend economics embodied by the U of Chicago goons.

Too bad he's still around. He'll be a good foil for Corbyn though, so it's not all negative.

They can never retire, must always go for another round of reinvention that may require a different speechwriter.

Best comeback might be: 'Tony Blair? I thought he died'.

Nah, whenever I hear the name Tony Blair I just want to spit.

few western politicians have more expertise than Tony Blair in the undermining of people's belief in democracy

he was the poodle of Bush the Lesser:

In 1991, the Reverend Jesse Jackson called the DLC “Democrats for the Leisure Class,” and in 2003, former Democratic National Committee Chair and Vermont Governor Howard Dean sharply criticized From and the DLC as the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.[14][15]

From played a prominent role in the 1992 election of President Bill Clinton – and served as Domestic Policy Advisor to the Clinton Transition – prompting USA Today to write: "The ideas at the crux of the Clinton candidacy were largely drafted by the DLC."[16]

Today, many of the ideas that comprise the core of the Democratic Party's agenda come from work done under From's leadership at the DLC. National service, an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, welfare reform, charter schools, community policing, expanded trade and re-inventing government were all championed by scholars and analysts at the DLC before becoming public policy.[17]

In 1998, with First Lady Hillary Clinton, From began a dialogue with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other world leaders, and the DLC brand – known as The Third Way – became a model for resurgent liberal governments around the globe.[18]

In April 1999, he hosted an historic Third Way forum in Washington with President Clinton, Prime Minister Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Prime Ministers Wim Kok of the Netherlands and Massimo D'Alema of Italy.[19]

And, like From and the Clintons, Blair is cynical, disingenuous and dishonest. No gaping hole exists in the middle of politics, where both corporatist neoliberals/neocons live. There is also no gaping hole on the right, where more corporatists live. The gaping hole in politics is where politics for most people, not just for multi-millionaires and billionaires, should be, but nothing is there.

Most people cannot afford to pay to play, as can big business and the wealthy. Hence no corrupt politicians bother with them; and the corrupt politicians, along with corporate media, freeze out honest politicians. One of the few things President Stopped Clock got right is that politics is rigged against everybody but plutocrats.

governance by members of The Big Club to those aspiring to membership in The Big Club. Blair and others of his ilk provide intros and references to get into the fraternity of the I Got Mine Club. You gotta know someone who knows someone in other words. (Just my opinion of course)