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I recently discovered that ex-PM Eric Blair once thought of becoming a writer rather than a politician. I know that without him the "New Labour" movement probably would have fizzled out after 1926, but who knows what the other consequences would have been?

Maybe the country would have swung the other way, politically - and under the Conservatives, would Baldwin have used the "dodgy dossier" to lead the country into the occupation of Spain? Somehow I doubt it.

(I'm not trying to start a flamewar here- although we now know Franco had no intention of attacking Gibraltar, it's obvious that Britain did the right thing in deposing him in 1936).

So basically, what if Blair hadn't entered politics?
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