Originally Posted by Lone Drinker:
“Blair might have been Tory lite, but he's the only leader of the Labour party to win a General Election in over 40 years.
The public have had the chance to vote in Kinnock, Brown and Miliband none of whom could be described as right wing but politely declined. Please carry on the delusion that what Labour activists want in any way chimes with the public as a whole.”
If I was paid to keep on repeating the following I would have made a few quid by now. Blair didn't win, labour won and they won because the public had enough of the Tories being in power. The Tories had been in for 4 consecutive terms and lasted 18 years!
The only reason why the Tories won 79 in the first place and stayed in power was primarily because of the bribe offered by Thatcher to Labour voters that they could buy their council houses very cheaply. Had it not been for that, I doubt she would have won or been re-lected even if the Tories won as the largest party in a hung parliament.
Other bribes helped keep them in too like cutting the top rate of income tax by at least 40% and selling nationalised companies for next to nothing too while still giving them subsidies too!
Labour instead of sticking to their true values/policies seem to have panicked after the 83 loss and deciided to start matching some Tory poliices which is probably why the likes of Corbyn have voted against Lab leaders 500 times in the past 33 years because they were passing Tory type policies.
The key is not to cave into your opponents but stick to your policies and keep on selling/campaigning on them and wait your turn to get back in as power comes around on a cyclical level. The Tories waited to get back in without changing much and where they did change, they soon resorted back to true form but with Labour? Oh noooo, they "MUST" be Tory lite all the time and Real Labour people are fed up with a tiny kabal (spelling?) on trying to force labour into that backed up by the Tory supporting press.