I can understand the mindset as it is a decaying obsolete party analysing the only time in 45+ years it has held power. It is just rearranging deckchairs though as the whole world has changed since Blair’s electoral success and Labour have ended out out of touch and out of time. It only has old 1970s to 1990s politics to offer a 21st century world.
I detest Mandelson, but his recent quote of “lose lose lose Blair Blair lose lose lose lose” was bang on. The area I fundamentally disagree with him is reanimating Blair is obviously not the answer to anything. To my mind the only logical conclusion is to accept we are witnessing the total systemic failure of UK politics and get very firmly behind a cross party platform of real electoral reform.
PS I’m surprised there has been no mention of the Tory Queen’s Speech setting the stage for a pure Trump/Republican-style ‘voter ID’ strategy to very deliberately remove votes from the poor and marginalised. If the requirement is actually a photo-ID then it could even apply to me as my passport is somewhere around its expiry date, I don’t have a driving license, and as I work for myself I have absolutely no need for photo-ID. I do have a volunteer’s ID for the museum, but I’d be surprised if that counted. I’d expect hundreds of thousands, even millions, to be cut adrift by this. Deliberately.