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18. Blair's internal party reforms have also played their part

Reply to blackspade (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:38 AM

Jul 2015

Under Blair the Labour leadership became known for top down control freakery from their central office, then in Millbank Tower. The party grassroots were routinely ignored and the people who have risen in the party since Blair became leader have tended to be bland careerists.

This has left Labour out of touch with voters, lacking the necessary grassroots support to help them connect with voters, and the grassroots supporters that are left pretty annoyed with the way the party is being run. And Blair's control freakery has left the party unable to reform itself and move forward.

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