In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
Tim Streater wrote:

I can't believe that it wasn't quite clear that Blair was a charlatan
even back then.


It was. If you had half a brain.
There's the rub, 50% of the electorate don't have a brain, quite
literally too stupid to be allowed to vote, whether they do or not.
And we get a government that about 20,000 people in marginal
constituencies decided, on the spur-of-the moment, to vote for.
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