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The Blair Legacy: Not Exactly Piffle
Tony Blair's campaign is an odd combination of success and unpopularity
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It was a day of monumental piffle on the campaign trail in Britain.
The Conservative Party announced a major initiative to fight teenage
binge drinking, which—given the much celebrated local custom—seemed
as likely to succeed as a plan to oppose rain. Not to be outdone,
Tony Blair's Labour Party announced an equally major initiative to
meet the needs of a new, mythic electoral figure: the Schoolgate Mum,
whose desires were said to include better school lunches, athletic
activities and access to school nurses. This
proved risible even to Labour Party stalwarts. "I thought...