Tony Blair has decided to take on the task of reversing last year’s Brexit vote… has he gone stark, raving mad?
IF you had to find the most deluded egomaniac in the world to lead a campaign to reverse last year’s Brexit vote, I suppose you would inevitably end up with Tony Blair.
IF you had to find the most deluded egomaniac in the world to lead a campaign to reverse last year’s Brexit vote, I suppose you would inevitably end up with Tony Blair.
Apparently, he was hoping someone held in slightly higher public esteem would take up this poisoned chalice.
But in the absence of someone bent on political suicide, this former Labour snake-oil salesman has decided to take on the task himself.
Nobody is better qualified for this Darwin Award bid for total self- destruction, except perhaps his faithful disciple George Osborne.
It is hard to know where to start with this latest insult from the man who abandoned the working classes and left Labour to rot while he turned greed into a way of life.
It is Blair, more than any other post-war politician — including Tory Ted Heath — who is responsible for the tidal wave of anger towards Brussels which led Britain to vote Out on June 23.
It was HIS Labour government that opened the floodgates to mass immigration which has blighted the continent of Europe.
It was Blair who despicably smeared as “racist” all those decent folk with misgivings about the millions who promptly poured across our borders.
It was Blair who, at the height of his powers, came close to shackling Britain to the misbegotten euro, which would have caused mass unemployment and Greek-style economic meltdown.And it is Blair who today can be blamed — or thanked, if you feel especially generous — for giving more than 17million Brits the strength of purpose to vote Out.
Now this vainglorious political pariah — the man who crusaded for the war in Iraq and all the dire consequences of his misguided policy of “moral intervention” — who has vowed to get us back In.
He wants us to “rethink” our decision to smash the shackles to Brussels and rejoin the disastrous political union which was already beginning to fall apart even before our decision to leave.
“I accept right now there is no widespread appetite to rethink,” Blair admits with mind-boggling under-statement.
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“But the people voted without knowledge of the true terms of Brexit.
“As these terms become clear, it is their right to change their mind.
“Our mission is to persuade them to do so.”
This is demented tosh. Arguments for and against Brexit were argued to destruction.
It is an insult to voters to portray them as knuckle-dragging Neanderthals without a clue about the consequences.
We knew what we were doing — and we rightly ignored Osborne’s rabid warnings of economic disaster if we dared to defy the pro-European elite.
How on earth does Blair think we could possibly reverse Brexit now? How could he imagine us shamefully pleading for a way back into the mess that is the European Union?
How could we ignore the extra- ordinarily favourable economic consequences of voting Out?
Or the slow-motion implosion of the EU, with or without us?
Not for the first time, it is fair to ask: Is this man stark, raving mad?