Whatever your opinion of the former prime minister, he certainly knows how to take the argument to Nigel Farage.
Whatever your opinion of the former prime minister, he certainly knows how to take the argument to Nigel Farage
Almost everyone has an opinion as to what the left needs to do in response to the electoral rise of UKIP. Everyone up to and including the former prime minister Tony Blair (who everyone also has an opinion of).
But whatever your opinion of Labour’s last elected PM – and we that know many progressives will never forgive him for his role in the Iraq war – he certainly knows how to take the argument to Nigel Farage on the issue of Europe.
This video, from way back in 2005 (interestingly, a year after UKIP had done well in the 2004 European elections) offers an invaluable lesson to today’s progressive, pro-European politicians in how it’s done – regardless of your opinion of Blair.
Watch and learn, and never apologise for being in favour of a united Europe.
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21 Responses to “Video: Tony Blair smacks down a ranting Nigel Farage”
Foullaini
We get open door immigration driving down the wages of British workers.
TRAV1S
Blair used the word reactionaries to describe those who did like the EU. “Reactionaries” is exactly the same word Stalin used to describe people who disagreed with him, just before he had them shot in the back of the neck.
Liam Fairley
Comparing Blair to Stalin…really? It’s said those who make comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis have lost the argument; I think the same can be said in this case.
Zool
I agree, whatever you want say about Stalin or Hitler they were never traitors like Blair.
Liam Fairley
I really don’t know why you bothered with this article, Mr Bloodworth. It will be dismissed instantly with the accompanying ‘Warmonger’, ‘Neo-con’, BLIAR’ tags.