Classic Blairite delusion. Blair accelerated deindustrialisation, trashed decent jobs, increased the trade deficit, deregulated the banks and kept on blowing up the housing bubble, introduced university tuition fees as interest-bearing loans then tripled them, involved us in an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation that fomented terrorism on British soil, set up corrupt PFI schemes, privatised and indebted elements of the NHS, and relieved poverty slower than deindustrialisation was causing it, thus falling way short of his target by 2010. When 2008 erupted on us, Blair had left us in a very vulnerable position that gave Cameron more excuses for austerity.