Tony Blair on the UK's relegation battle

[@halcyon8280]

Fantastic interview. Well done Rory and Alastair. Great to hear from Tony again.

[@seanl6628]

I was always a Blair fan but listening to him now he does sound like he is expounding platitudes and word salad. Having said that he is still far more intelligent and articulate than any in the government today.

[@trevorbarre5616]

A low bar indeed, and about to get even lower.

[@sevgadagenty9229]

Tony is the best prime minister of the last 40 years. But that is not a high bar.

[@Gizo02]

I think that the first half or so of his time as PM were very successful with a lot of positive achievements, before things clearly unravelled during the second half. Saying that he himself would probably consider the second half to be more successful, as he was ‘bolder’.

[@garyambrosini1427]

The least worst is probably a more accurate description

[@pluckypanda9937]

Tony was a great PM, Britian was so much better under the last labour gov, scary how quickly things go south under the torys

[@mcmackmuckm8180]

I'm not defending the Tory's, but didn't Labour leave the note at the treasury saying "I'm afraid we have run out of money"? We have to pick the least self-serving party to fleece us every 4-5 years. Media spin makes it difficult to make an objective judgement.

[@orangutanfan3179]

@@mcmackmuckm8180 Labour did an awful lot wrong and yet an obvious joke in a letter is your criticism? Really?

[@addazarmy6826]

​@@mcmackmuckm8180 That was a long running joke when a change of government occurred, it happened in the 60s when Wilson came in for example

[@harveymadelin7938]

@@mcmackmuckm8180 You're obviously uneducated. the debt has quadrupled in the last 13 years and the deficit is almost at 2010 levels so nice try.

[@antmanandthecod6073]

I don’t know if it’s the hard left or the Tory’s But they do a good job of basically saying any credible Labour candidate ie Blair or starmer is “basically a Tory” and then people fall into the trap of all politicians are the same. That’s something Labour need to overcome

[@jackwaterman6727]

Yes, they can do that by stop being Tory lol! If Corbyn was the problem, why did Starmer drop the entire manifesto and lie about keeping it to the members during the election! Keir Starmer is a liar and so are the Tories! Spin equals lies.

[@antmanandthecod6073]

@@jackwaterman6727 say what you want but go and look at everything Tony Blair did for the nhs, police and schooling vs the tories since 2010 it’s night and day. People like JC are a pipe dream the electorate don’t want a far left politician. That’s a fact look at the last two GEs

[@joewjones14]

They are all the same. People say politicians are all the same because they are. They wear different rosettes but they all serve exactly the same interests. The job of politicians is to lie to the public, to pretend they serve them, all the while truly serving the super rich and media barons. Corbyn was different, and look what happened to him.

[@ChrisGamble]

The simpleton misinformation & logical fallacy troll world is more of a problem than realised and there appears to be nothing to slow it

[@edenmurphy4295]

There isn’t really a contest between who the best PM of modern times is and frankly every day we continue with this conservative government just emphasises that even further.

[@erickeane4560]

As long as we agree that it's Thatcher. Blair's job was to merely implement Thatcherism in Labour. Also Thatcher went to war to defend British territory while Blair went to war to defend a lie. I assume we are both in agreement.

[@trevorbarre5616]

One of several elephants in this room is Labour's getting into bed with the private sector (the public/private initiative).

[@TheSackblabbath]

Can never forgive him for Iraq.

[@lakedistrict9450]

The peak of NHS performance in terms of meeting meaningful targets was under Brown. The problem for NHS staff is endless top down reorganisations…way too much time spent on adapting to political bright ideas at the expense of fine tuning practice within the system. Stop top down reforms and sort out social care. Every party has failed on that.

[@redrev674]

What these guys are missing is that we are seeing great tectonic changes in the world - the rise of China, global migration, technology advances, geopolitical security challenges, religious extremism, energy security - and the old paradigms of policy responses that could be previously classified as left, right and Centre are challenged.

[@hkpr-ro6ui]

Note Campbell's unrivalled talent for talking over everyone whilst Tony and Rory listen when anyone else is talking.

[@trevorbarre5616]

What rubbish.

[@hkpr-ro6ui]

@@trevorbarre5616 It's a fact. Perhaps you didn't listen to the recording. It's obvious to anyone who listens.

[@trevorbarre5616]

@@hkpr-ro6ui ????

[@jmasl7]

interesting the theme of fighting Relegation ... did Burnley fan Alastair Campbell come up with that?

[@yasminanjum3310]

Odd.. 1st there was no sound but when I retried it for the 3rd time it's now working...😁

[@JC-KeepSmiling]

I've never voted conservative but I always felt terribly let down by Tony Blair. Adding huge debt to our young students and bowing down to Rupert Murdoch.

[@Frankbezema]

I love how Blair says; “this is why we organised the conference”. Who of the listeners had an invite or the (financial) opportunity to go to the conference?

[@jacquelinemahoney621]

I would disagree on the issue of social care this needs investment separately. Social Care is not a by product or servant of health care 😡 it's a massive task to put onto ICBs!

[@bertiescunsbutch9323]

Remember Dr David Kelly R.I.P. Campbell and you lot went after him.

[@rohitballal5654]

You have no evidence

[@bertiescunsbutch9323]

@@rohitballal5654 Dr David Kelly's own family sent a submission to the Hutton inquiry, that Campbell's own diary suggested that he wanted to expose the the source, perhaps you were not around at the time.

[@mrsamuelwatson12]

Just feel like Blair is still banging the same ideas as 20 years ago. Centralism isn’t always the answer. If this government is centre-right then the antidote needs to be left wing

[@pluckypanda9937]

It's not center right

[@ravilockyer1266]

Blair = genius politician

[@redrev674]

This is old thinking. The centre ground has moved. What was considered Centre before is no longer the centre.

[@foehammer5047]

13:13 Alastair refers to Tony Blair, the war criminal, as a "god".

[@rohitballal5654]

He is

[@Coolsomeone234]

38:00 property tax

[@Coolsomeone234]

38:47 HE SAID THE THING

[@petermanley7525]

Blair is abhorrent.

[@rohitballal5654]

No you are.

[@orangutanfan3179]

@@rohitballal5654 No U

[@merrickbrazzell711]

p͓̽r͓̽o͓̽m͓̽o͓̽s͓̽m͓̽ 🤭

[@001nufcnufc]

55 minutes of delusional...