Blair himself was another example of not being "what it says on the tin."
Labour in name only, Blair could not even bring himself to use the word socialism, a protege of Thatcher(Cons) and Clinton(Dem), Blair moved the Labour Party(re-labelled as "New Labour") from a left of centre organisation to a position well to the right of the UK Liberal Party.
He was a stereotypical "liberal" who used the Orwellian ideas of "Newspeak" and "Doublethink" to his great personal advantage, until the "proles" finally realised what he and his administration really were.....they are now in the process of removing from power the remnants of the Blair/ Brown project.

Seems to me "liberalism" has much more of a hold in the US than the UK and may be much more difficult to remove. Having watched its progress from inception to decline in the UK I believe it to be a sort of communal madness.

The supreme irony being that if the right wing Conservatives had been in power in the UK instead of Blairs "liberals", we would certainly never have followed America into Iraq.

The Labour Party would have opposed it in opposition, and the Conservatives would never have been capable of the machinations required to coerse the British public or their own rebel MPs.

"Liberalism" stifled the debate on Iraq, most people believed that the "liberal" agenda of regime change was reason enough.

"newspeak " and "doublethink" had triumphed in a "liberal" society, George Orwell must be spinning in his grave!

We see the same scenario in race, emmigration, homosexual "rights"
dare to discuss these issues and you become a "Non person".....Ake