{"id":246499,"date":"2016-05-28T14:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blair-not-corbyn-was-dangerous-experiment\/"},"modified":"2016-05-28T14:51:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T14:51:46","slug":"blair-not-corbyn-was-dangerous-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blair-not-corbyn-was-dangerous-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair, not Corbyn, was Dangerous Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"78.713966979027\">\n<p>By God, how Tony Blair and his ilk have degraded the public discourse. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/may\/28\/tony-blair-corbyn-government-dangerous-experiment\" target=\"_blank\">warns<\/a> that a Jeremy Corbyn government would be \u201ca very dangerous experiment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it would not be an experiment at all. Ideologically, it would look a lot like the government of, say, Clement Attlee in 1945, which brought us such \u201cdangerous\u201d experiments as the National Health Service. And that, of course, was exactly how the welfare state was portrayed\u00a0by the Conservatives of the time.<\/p>\n<p>The real experiment was the series of Thatcherite governments the UK has endured since Margaret Thatcher\u2019s election in 1979, including the 10 years under Blair and his \u201cNew Labour\u201d party.<\/p>\n<p>This dangerous experiment in neoliberalism dug us deep into an economic hole, and made us incapable of showing the solidarity necessary to begin the fight to reverse climate change. In fact, that experiment is looking increasingly likely to prove lethal for the human species.<\/p>\n<p>A Corbyn government wouldn\u2019t be experimental. It would be a return to the kind of compassion-based politics that once made sense to large swathes of the public \u2013 before neoliberalism worked so hard to persuade us that we live\u00a0in\u00a0a jungle in which only the fittest should survive.<\/p>\n<p>It is a mark of the growing disgust with neoliberalism and its outcomes \u2013 massive inequality, socialism for the rich, political croneyism, compulsive consumption and accelerated climate change \u2013 that people, especially young people, are turning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/05\/blair-not-corbyn-was-dangerous-experiment\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By God, how Tony Blair and his ilk have degraded the public discourse. He warns that a Jeremy Corbyn government would be \u201ca very dangerous experiment\u201d. In fact, it would not be an experiment at all. Ideologically, it would look a lot like the government of, say, Clement Attlee in 1945, which brought us such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}