A section of the Labour leaders feel that to accomplish his mission he has been targeting Corbyn. After severe beating during the December election the Labour leaders did not make any serious attempt to evaluate and analyse the reasons for the defeat. Now the sudden emergence of Blair on the political scenario to vilify Corbyn has created a lot of curiosity in the rank and file. It is important to notice that no other leader of repute has taken Corbyn at the target.

This development obviously raises important question; why targeting Corbyn? Tony’s hatred towards Corbyn could be gauged from the simple fact that only a couple of days back he publically mocked Corbyn as "hopelessly out of date" and advised the new candidate planning to replace Corbyn that he or she should opt for centre-right combination. Besides castigating the left politics of Corbyn he advised the new leader to move away from Jeremy’s policies.

Blair did not conceal his intentions and priorities. Winning the election and forming the government has been more important for him than awakening and making labourer conscious of the political and economic realities and evolve mechanism to fight the rightist maneoverings. Blair also attacked the far-left leader over his disastrous approval ratings and bizarre manifesto.

With the process of electing the new leader already on way, the centrist leadership of the party has become quite desperate to side track the elements which believe in leftism and are supporters of Corbyn’s line. Ironically a message is sent across the party rank and file and even to the common people that Corbyn has been a worthless guy. This idea is clearly explicit in the political line being propounded by Blair; whether the contenders for the Labour leadership could offer the "fundamental" change the party needs to get back into power.

Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer are competing to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. Party members start voting next week, with the name of the winner to be announced on 4 April. Since the time is too short Blair has intensified his attack on Corbyn.

Blair has in fact launched a psychological warfare against the political line and ideology of Corbyn. He does not intend that Labour should be seen as the pivot for the left wing politics. Britain is already witnessing the increasing gulf between the rich and poor. This is likely to aggravate in the future. With increasing poverty base the fight would sharpen. This situation would be much against the perceptions and likes of the centrist and rightist forces.

Blair advocating the concern of the centrist forces has been highly critical of whatever Corbyn did as the leader of the party. He even alleged that Labour's manifesto for the general election had been unpopular and many voters had judged it to be "incredible". He described the party's Brexit policy ahead of the election "bizarre". According to him Labour, cannot afford to remain recycling old debates and polices over traditional issues like nationalisation, NHS spending and tuition fees.

Blair even argued that Labour would have performed better at the election with a "more moderate" leader, but required more far-reaching change in the long run. He publically asked the anti-Corbyn group to intensify their activities against him. He said the party should "redefine what radical means" in the context of technological changes and needed to build a "whole new progressive alliance".

He did not hide his liking for the rightist forces and warned the party against entering into a "culture war with the right". According to him Labour must change fundamentally to win power. At a time when the world has been witnessing the resurgence of the rightist forces Britain should not lean towards the leftist ideas.

Blair’s message is that to win and hold power, Labour must change from top to toe. Combining liberal and socialist ideas may not serve. Strangely Blair urged the next Labour boss to stop squabbling about hard-left politics and have the “mentality of government”. He foresees that the party would become irrelevant if it didn't act now and changes its character. For this it was imperative that the party must disown Corbyn's 'misguided ideology'.

Though Blair has called on Labour members to abandon the policies and political leanings of Jeremy Corbyn to ensure the survival of the party, it is an open secret that in the changed political scenario the party would become redundant if it choses to abide by the suggestions of Blair. The Labour leadership has to realise that in the swift changing political scenario, the party must have its own distinct identity. Nevertheless the primary concern of Blair and his supporters is; If the new leader continues to follow the political and ideological line of Corbyn then Labour will be finished as a political force.

Without mincing words he said; “The far left that has taken over the Labour party and if they continue to remain in charge of the Labour party, then I think the Labour party is finished. The choice for Labour is to renew itself as the serious, progressive, non-Conservative competitor for power in British politics, or retreat from such an ambition, in which case over time it will be replaced”.

With the selection process picking up Tony has become more aggressive: “Corbyn personified politically an idea, a brand, of quasi-revolutionary socialism, mixing far-left economic policy with deep hostility to western foreign policy. It’s essentially a cry of rage against the system. It’s not a programme for government. To win power we need self-discipline, not self-indulgence.”

On his part undeterred of personal attack Corbyn, besides a promise of another EU referendum in which he said he would be neutral, offered voters a radical socialist agenda with higher public spending, sweeping nationalisation and taxes on the wealthy.

Corbyn’s supporters have also opened up front against Blair and come out with the allegation that he betrayed the working classes by shifting the party to the right and undermined faith in politicians by supporting the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. Blair during his premiership had followed the centrist line and was known to be too close to USA.

Corbyn on the contrary has been severe critic of the USA and holds it responsible for many ills the world fraternity was today. On some occasions he even refused to endorse the Britain government’s line which was soft towards the USA. Even in the face of Blair he still enjoys support among many of Labour’s 550,000 members who will vote for a new leader. (IPA Service)