Blairism traded real power for perpetual centrist office-holding.

Evidence

Blairism was this particular form of false promise, this deferral — if we are careful now, tomorrow we can do more… But tomorrow never arrives, the aim is always to be in government, the price is always the lack of any real power to change the inherited parameters of the possible. This is the formula: government without power, an increasingly unpopular populism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1774

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fisher defines the Blairite political formula as permanent deferral buying office without transformative capacity.
• XREF: Echoes Fisher’s own concept ‘capitalist realism’ — the sense that no alternative to the current order is imaginable; also resonates with the learned ‘government without power’ theme. — connects to: Blairism won elections by sacrificing the party’s sense of purpose — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1850

Broader Connections

• Blairism won elections by sacrificing the party’s sense of purpose #corroborates (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1850