Product Description
"Mr Blair's Messiah Politics: Or What Happened When Bambi Tried to Save the World" shows how a personal sense of mission led Tony Blair to concentrate power in his own hands as he re-imagined Britain from top to bottom - before going on to save the world. In seeking to fight third-world poverty, tackle climate change and topple tyrannies, Blair has framed goals that truly merit the term 'messianic'. Manager, missionary, military leader: these roles have all suited Tony Blair. This book shows us how to avoid a future Tony Blair: the public needs to be sceptical of personal power; MPs need to reassert their authority; Civil Servants need to rediscover their allegiance to the Crown. By these simple measures, we can guard against Messiah Politics, whether Blair's or anyone else's.
About the Author
Richard D. North is one of the UK's most prominent voices arguing for the merits of unreconstructed capitalism, representative democracy and the consumer society. His Rich is Beautiful: A very personal defence of mass affluence was published by the Social Affairs Unit in 2005.