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“We’re on our way up” – What Blair told Ed Miliband last night

July 12, 2012 9:47 am

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At Labour’s big fundraiser last night, Tony Blair told guests:

“There is a rulebook in politics that goes something like this: Labour governs. Labour loses. Tories take over. Labour goes crazy. Tories carry on governing.

Time to re-write that script.

Actually it is being re-written by them and by us. They’re on their way down. We’re on our way up.”

(h/t George Eaton)

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  • treborc

    I wonder who wrote that lot Campbell, or some other spin Meister.

    • Daniel Speight

      Don’t worry, Campbell will claim it anyway.

      • treborc

         We will  know doubt find out in a new serial of his newer Book, how I brought Blair back.

        • Chilbaldi

          It kills you, staring electoral success in the face.

          • John Dore

            Not sure he knows what electoral success is. Kinnock and Foot weren’t a roaring success. 

            Dinosaur on a keyboard.

          • treborc

            We will see

          • treborc

             We will see

          • Holly

            Here’s hoping eh?
            Not sure ‘success’ is the right word, I prefer comeuppance.
            You see, once in government, Miliband & Balls will have to  come up with the goods.

            I reckon Balls will try to copy what Brown did, and stick to Tory (Osborne’s) budget plans, but being cocky & even more inept, Balls will borrow & spend in all the wrong places.
            Looking forward to their ‘success’ to be honest.

    • Holly

      Who cares.
      With the Olympics doing the rounds I needed cheering up…And believe me the thought of Miliband & Balls, the two Blair-haters, now having to ‘get his advice’ to try get into government makes me laugh.

  • Redshift

    Sooo, Blair is about a year behind the rest of the party is realising what’s going on…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1557475545 Jack Bonner

    Conclusion: we can be quietly confident that 2015 will not be a disastrous repeat of 1983 ;)

    • treborc

       Three years away the Tories will now work their cotton socks off, you can bet now things will change and it could easily be another so called 1983.

      The problem for labour is the lack of anything, when the Tories said about means testing pensioners benefits labour replay silence, labour has to find a reason for being, otherwise people will start thinking it has no idea no morals and the only thing that matters is power for power sake.

      At this time we are seeing this Tory government  in the same light as major, but we do not have a John Smith, for Blair to hang onto.

      • Holly

        Some may be seeing this Tory government in the same light as Major, but we also know that many of the problems originate from years back, under Labour. Remember, if this Tory government can fix some of the problems by working harder, instead of chucking bucket loads of borrowed money around, with better outcomes for the country, they will be seen in a completely different light come 2015.

        The problem for Labour is, that if this government do that, why would we ever vote Labour?

        All Labour are doing is trying to discredit everybody and anybody in the belief it makes them appear good…..Pity we had to go through thirteen years of lies, deceit, cover-ups, corruption and fraud.

        The latest Olympic contract mess is yet another case of Labour failing to protect our tax revenue, failing to check what they were signing us up for and one less for the current government to try and fix…
        So far we have had Fred Goodwin, PFI and now this….All agreed under Labour and all have cost us, and our children far too much money….Just think how much we could have invested in future education or healthcare if only Labour had paid more attention.
        John Major was a Churchill in comparison to Miliband & Co.

  • hp

    I hope T.Blair paid to attend, not the other way around.

  • David Pavett

    Sounds like the anodyne rubbish that Blair uses to hide his noxious brand of politics.

  • treborc

    Of course it very easy when your a political party to be on the slide, to day we are hearing about three hospitals close to  to going bust, one is paying £61 million on interest payment to PFI put in place by New labour and Blair, Blair is back.

    It does not take much for people to think back and end up saying ah yes this was labours problem. In Wales we are hearing about a child with half a heart, they have said the child will need a heart and lung operation in the very near future, they have just lost £450 a month in benefits, the mother has been told she must work.. This is not the Tories this is down to Purnell and and New labour.

    I suspect in the end come election time people will think hard which party to vote for and then sit at home again, I know I will.

  • Mike Homfray

    Historically that is actually quite accurate – and I am glad it hasn’t happened this time

  • James

    You’d think that Blair was a Labour Party supporter if you didn’t know any better.

  • Losange

    Well at least he didn’t mention “hard-working families”, “something for something society”, “hand up not a hand out”, “third way”, “tough love”, “Middle England”, “Mondeo man”… blah, blah, blah… so I’ll give him a point for cutting down on the meaningless clichés.

  • Holly

    I absolutely hope so!
    I pray everyday that Miliband & Balls will be given a chance to show us just how good they are at covering stuff up…I mean running the country/economy.
    The 5-point plan..YAY!
    No more cuts, and the cuts already implemented reversed..YAY!!
    A stop to the raid on public sector pensions/reforms..YAY!!!
    VAT reduced, and not a murmur from the markets..YAY!!!!
    We’ll be on our backs…I mean feet, in no time.
    I relish the thought of all that extra ‘investment’, like PFI/Olympic games contracts, knowing future generations will be paying for the resulting ‘growth’, and we can get back to the good old days of spending money we don’t have.
    YAY!

    Maybe I am wrong, and Miliband WILL act responsibly…..IF Balls lets him that is.

    • ThePurpleBooker

      Although things look dire for Cameron I feel it’s too soon to be so sure Miliband will have a big working majority post the 2015 general election.

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