left-winger<\/a> just won* the race to be the leader of the Labour Party. And the losing side, which calls itself “New” Labour is whining about things like “returning to the past,” “delusions,” and “failed policies.”<\/p>\nReality check time: Blair is no longer PM, and hasn’t been for some time now. So far as “delusions” go, how about the one that Dubya was telling the truth about Iraq being a threat worth going to war for? And for “failed policies,” how about the resulting war there which paved the way for ISIS, a group that manages to make Saddam Hussein look OK in comparison?<\/p>\n
And of course the ultimate irony is the term “New” Labour. It’s the past, it’s dying, and good riddance.<\/p>\n
* Won it quite handily, in fact, on the first round of voting, with the largest margin ever for such a victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, isn’t this one precious. A left-winger just won* the race to be the leader of the Labour Party. And the losing side, which calls itself “New” Labour is whining about things like “returning to the past,” “delusions,” and “failed policies.” Reality check time: Blair is no longer PM, and hasn’t been for some time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}