With the
Labour Party in turmoil following the loss of the Hartlepool by-election and the subsequent botched shadow cabinet reshuffle, questions are being asked about the leadership of Keir Starmer.
Does the former Director of Public Prosecutions have the charisma to match Boris Johnson? Could anyone realistically do better against a government spending lots of money and successfully vaccinating its population against a deadly pandemic?
As many wrestle these questions and more, one man has an answer: Time for Blair. The Tories now have a 15 point leadTime for Blair— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) May 14, 2021That’s the simple solution proposed by Andrew Adonis, the former Labour Cabinet minister in the 2000s who now sits in the House of Lords.
The proposition on its surface is pretty simple: bring back the man who steered Labour to a hat-trick of general
elections, a man with a proven track record of success.
And he boiled it down to just three words. And used it again.Time for Blair https://t.co/3qMhXaaFRc— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) May 14, 2021
And again.
Time for Blair, as I say here https://t.co/uFDK4X8vJj— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) May 14, 2021
And again.
Just in case you’ve missed it -Time for Blair— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) May 14, 2021
The polls, however, don’t quite see it that way, with Andy Burnham and
Jeremy Corbyn regarded as better placed than TB.
Would [X] do a better or worse
Job of leading the Labour party than Keir Starmer?According to 2019 Labour voters:Andy Burnham - ✅47% / ❌7%Jeremy Corbyn - ✅35% / ❌43%Tony Blair - ✅27% / ❌36%Rebecca Long Bailey - ✅16% / ❌21%https://t.co/tXRHN7ikKrpic.twitter.com/RYIbQ30R2j— YouGov (@YouGov) May 14, 2021
But the argument seemed lost on most who engaged with the idea on
Twitter, and there seemed to be three directions to take it.
The most popular was to reference Blair’s foreign policy, and implicit in all of them was the war in Iraq.
Time for Blair? I quite agree. Ten years in Belmarsh should do it.— Count Binface (@CountBinface) May 14, 2021Actually, it's time for Blair to stand trial for his war crimes. Nothing else.— Northern Independence Party 🟨🟥 (@FreeNorthNow) May 14, 2021Time for Blair? Agree. Somewhere between 25 years and life would cover it.— The Great Keithulhu (@joejglenton) May 14, 2021Long past time for Blair to go to
prison for his crimes against the people of
Iraq and Palestine -- and Britain, for that matter.— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) May 14, 2021Time for Blair pic.twitter.com/F7aOD8HwIg— Michael East (@MichaelEast1983) May 14, 2021I'm not above enjoying the fact that #TimeForBlair has turned into 'how many years in the clink'.— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) May 14, 2021
A second was to apply the maxim to the more trivial moments in life.
Out of milkTime for Blair. https://t.co/0b24s2DdtW— Dr Dan Waterfield (@danwaterfield) May 14, 2021Might start saying "time for Blair" before sex— Rob Palk (@robpalkwriter) May 14, 2021me: ‘you can’t just respond to all of life’s problems with Tony Blair’lord adonis: *stubs his toe* TIME FOR BLAIR https://t.co/J8U7XXz2MW— ashikun (@NotHayashi) May 14, 2021
Or deliberately get confused about which famous Blair is being referenced.
We've always got "Time for Blair" pic.twitter.com/IwCnVGWbOQ— Ingram Publisher Services
UK (@uk_publishers) May 14, 2021Just in case you missed it -Time for Ric Blair https://t.co/KQTOgnOxdGpic.twitter.com/jex77KB71l— FMHoP (@visualsatire) May 14, 2021"Time for Blair?I thought you’d never ask my darlings” pic.twitter.com/A1PMLGPssz— Andy Craik (@andycraik) May 14, 2021Related...Piers Morgan Attempts To Give Alistair Campbell Advice After He Lands Good Morning
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