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.
21 Responses to “Video: Tony Blair smacks down a ranting Nigel Farage”
Alex Lunk
Farage came across way better than Blair — the latter had the entire room behind him and still just managed to squeeze out some platitudes. Farage may be a dangerous idiot but half-assed unprincipled vaguness like Blair’s isn’t the answer. And by the way, why are we celebrating a war criminal?