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Blair was Thatcher-lite. How was he any better than Cameron?
Nah, Blair was more of a British Clinton (which is plenty bad enough!) with warlike/sycophantic tendencies. Cameron was Thatcher Modern.
Blair built on Thatcher’s legacy. That’s a simple fact https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/18/blair-thatcher-legacy-labour-zarah-sultana
Noam Chomsky saying the Labour party became "Thatcher-lite" during the Blair years and did not represent the working class https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/noam-chomsky-saying-the-labour-party-became-thatcher-lite-news-footage/682672090
Blair was to Thatcher what Clinton was to Reagan: while both cynically perpetuated most of the society-destroying new norms of their non-immediate predecessors and even vehemently resisted attempts to undo them, they didn't make big reforms to make things much worse still like Dubya and Cameron did.