As Jeremy Corbyn's estate race begins, after Labor's historic election defeat, former Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair strangled on Wednesday "Quasi-revolutionary socialism" of the British Labor opposition leader.
The Labor Party lost 59 seats in the December 12 elections and now has only 203 elected members of the House of Commons. The Conservative Party won 365 seats, an increase of 47 seats compared to the legislative elections of 2017, with 43.6% of the vote against 32.2% in Labor.
The only Labor leader to have led his party to victory in the past forty-five years, Tony Blair, a staunch social democrat activist, warned that the survival of Labor as a great formation was now threatened.
"The takeover of Labor by the far left transformed the party into an idealized, cult-like protest movement, completely incapable of forming a credible government"said Tony Blair, winner of three elections and Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007.
Lack of clarity
On the key issue of Brexit, Tony Blair denounced the failure of the party to "Take a clear stand and stick to it". Direct criticism of the line of Jeremy Corbyn, who cultivated an ambiguous position on the exit from the European Union. According to Tony Blair, Labor should have accepted the result of the 2016 referendum – where 52% of Britons decided to leave the EU -, criticize the government's Brexit agreement and defend the fact more firmly than the "Final decision had to be made by the people".
And "Politically", Jeremy Corbyn, he said, was seen "As fundamentally opposed to what the UK and western countries stand for", he embodied a "Quasi-revolutionary socialism" unable to seduce the Labor electorate.
At a Labor meeting on Tuesday evening, Jeremy Corbyn faced the fury of his camp, to which he apologized for the election results, while accusing Brexit and the media. The party is due to meet in January to define the timetable for the departure of the leader in his seventies and the election of his replacement.
A change of line is unlikely, because the militant base is now very on the left, especially among the young people attracted by Mr. Corbyn. Given as one of the favorites, Keir Starmer, 57, in charge of Brexit in the "Ghost government" Labor, "Think seriously" to run for the estate of Jeremy Corbyn. He believed that the party had failed to counter the "Let's make Brexit" by Boris Johnson.
Also among the favorites is Rebecca Long-Bailey, a 40-year-old member known to be close to Jeremy Corbyn. She has not appeared in the media since the election.
