Tony Blair says....

Nazi soldiers conducting a search of an individual

In an interview with the Telegraph  Tony Blair warned against coming down hard on bankers. Saying "don't take 30 years  of liberalisation, beginning under Mrs Thatcher, and say this is what caused the financial crisis".

Could this be a way of shifting blame from his government onto Thatchers? Perhaps bankers are the scapegoat?

He also said that "we mustn't go back to the state running everything". He is right in saying that financial liberalisation is good and that it shouldn't be restricted. However like most things pure, it has become diluted over time. Look at China's communism, how far is it from its source yet the party running China is the Communist Party? My point being there is a difference between liberal and too much liberalism. Our financial system has effectively gone nude leaving too many people exposed.

Adding to his remarks that the state shouldn't run everything, personal freedom under Tony Blair was the worst this country has seen probably since during the blitz. Our everyday lives were being perversely monitored by the state. Councils rummaging through our bills, freedom of speech limited, anything national suppressed, cctv's imposed on every corner, the BBC singing the New Labour anthems, telling us what to eat and what not to. Health and Safety ruining the fun of life which often naturally involves danger. And then there was the DNA database, the largest ever collected. Terrorism laws used out of context by the police to arrest or search under the stop and search powers. Ordinary people being harassed by the state after being labelled problem families. Asked when to intervene Tony responded "pre birth even".

This was the state interfering in everything but the financial sector! The state had become diluted, its responsibilities clouded under 13 years of Tony Blair's New Labour and it is because of that we are where we are today.