Great LTTEs in the Independent UK about Tony Blair's return to the UK political scene

[Mutiny In Heaven]

13. Yep...

"I have no tolerance for Blair, whom I blame not only for Iraq but for economic policies that continued to favour financial and banking services; a failure to encourage a revival of manufacturing; continuing and often increasing the partial privatization of public services; and an exaggerated management culture - Americans on the board may try and imagine NCLB applied not only to schools but to just about everything! But Cameron's policies are worse. And I would say that the real rot set in under Thatcher."

That is all true. Unfortunately, the current lot gave steroids to all of the worst aspects of Blair-ism and pulled the rug from those struggling.

Taking people under 10k out of income tax is a laughable, insulting sop when the changes to benefits and tax credits etc are factored in. My blood boils when I hear Clegg tout this as some kind of levelling of the playing field. I know that I'll have SOMETHING to comfort me at the next election, because whoever wins, the Lib Dems are getting decimated.

I hope they fold entirely and are replaced by a party which positions itself to the left not only on social issues, but economically too. We could do with one of them.