Al - you let your bitterness cloud your mind and your mood;
and your understanding of the present day state of Labour
and it's friends and foes seems a bit errmm.. unbalanced......

My wife's overwhelmingly increasing workload in a state school,
the attack on her working conditions,
and the tangible climate of fear/stress
began during Blair's reign..

My own experiences on benefits, and trying to acccess adult education
became significantly worse shortly adter he gained power..
It soon became stricter and more coercively authoritarian than even under the tories..

All he did from the start was try to convince global capitalists,
and habitual right wing voters he could out tory the tories...

Of course, at first we were too giddy with the euphoria of a Labour victory
to notice this pernicious negative shift in welfare and public sector working conditions...

Blair laid the groundwork for Cameron and his treachourous liberal lap dogs...
After a few years we cottoned on to that..