Lib Dem Tony Bair?

Hunter W.

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If say he left Labour because he loses confidence and he became leader, would the Liberal Democrats enter government?
 
For Blair to be a Lib Dem or a Liberal it might make more sense to have a POD where Britain changes its electoral system to some form of PR, which would make them a more natural party of government.
 
How to get Blair into the Lib Dems? The difficulty is that Blair started out belonging to the Soft Left faction, rather than the Labour Right, so he's not a candidate for joining the SDP split at the time. I think your best option is to scuttle Labour at the expense of the Alliance - Blair would only switch over if the Alliance/Lib Dems had become the more viable route to power.
 
You need a little more context here. I don't think the mere fact of Blair being in the Lib Dems is going to make them a party of government. If your talking him joining some time before he became PM, then the PoD is likely to have something to do with the Lib Dems (or the Alliance for that matter) being a more viable alternative government than Labour. In which case, were he leader, then he'd have a good chance of being PM at some point.

If the PoD is just he joins the Lib Dems at some point with a lot of handwaving whilst they are still the third party, then he isn't particularly likely to drag them into leading a government. Blair was very good, but so were plenty of other Lib Dem leaders, and they still didn't break through.
 
Interestingly a lot of Lib Dems now speak quite highly of Blair.

They took an honourable and passionate stand against the Iraq War in 2003, but that's now okay because Blair represents nice, fluffy centrism. Or something.
 
Could labor have kept going left, damaging their electability, or is that tie asb fir a premise. Labor keeps going left and the lib dems end up as the party of the opposition could end up with Blair in the libdems.
 
What time period would he have left Labour?

If i where to hazard a guess (i'm not an expert on UK politics), If someone from the hard left like Tony Benn became party leader (as ASB as that sounds), then perhaps their would be an exodus of the Labour-Right (and even some moderates) to the Liberal Democrats, assuming there isn't complications in changing party (i'm sure there would be something preventing a sitting mp from casually switching party allegiances, he may have to stand down and re-contest his seat at the next election), maybe he is promised a prominent position in the party.

On a Blair lead Lib-Dem government, I mean after a certain amount of time i'd imagine, just like now, the hard-left's policies would not be so popular, also the Conservatives by the mid 90's where having a bad time, so its possible with no other real viable option, maybe in 97 or more likely, in 01 he becomes PM.

It sounds like it would take a lot of things changing in Labour, The Tories not taking advantage of that change and the Lib-Dems filling the void.
 
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