Blair should be stripped of his knighthood.

Exactly what Labour did when they pushed tuition fees.  Many of them got their university education paid for without accumulating a load of debt and broken promises.

In spite of smear campaigns in which the Blairite wing of the party in collusion with the media were complicit, Labour in 2017 got more votes than at any time since 1997. Even in that so-called historical defeat in 2019 it got more votes than Blair in 2005, in spite of the disastrous Starmer sponsored policies re Brexit in an election which was treated almost as a referendum on Brexit. And in which the voices of the right united behind the Tories for the first time in decades. First Past The Post did the rest.

As for the working class rejecting Labour, that occurred well before Corbyn when the Blairite middle class affluentocracy allowed the nation to be flooded with cheap foreign labour which was systematically used to keep pay low and drive up rents, to the enrichment of the affluent middle classes at the expense of the working class. And when the latter had the gall to express their concerns about that, you called them racists. So when the Brexit issue came along many of them fell into its arms, driven there by your lot. Therefore when - at the behest of Starmer - Labour seemed intent upon trying to stop it, the working class were repelled, or many of them were. And fell in behind the simple mantra of getting Brexit done. 2019 cannot be understood without this context.

Nevertheless, it remains a statistical fact that in spite of that, even in 2019 Labour polled more votes than the Tories amongst working age people, including the working class. It was the pensioner vote of mostly those no longer working, who had least to gain therefore from policies designed to help the working class, who most readily bought into the tabloids they still bought in large numbers, and who were most solidly behind Brexit, that did the damage. Corbyn was also personally unpopular amongst this age group and was in many ways a functionally bad leader. But the actual policies in the 2017 manifesto were measured by polling and most of them were very popular. Labour defeats came in spite of them and for other reasons and not because of them, as such facts make abundantly clear. That's why Labour at the time were rarely attacked on policy but instead on personalities and smears, and also repeatedly undermined from within by the right of the party, showcasing chronic disunity that Corbyn should have been much tougher against.

As for your so-called working class hero Starmer (excuse me for a moment whilst I indulge in a few giggles) where the hell are any concrete policies that will do anything transformatively positive for the working class? Plenty of soundbites and platitudes designed to sound good, but hardly anything concrete in policy terms. And why would there be from these champions of the establishment? If the working class vote Labour now it is only out of sheer desperation to be rid of these appalling Tories, and in many places voting Labour is the only way to do that, under our pitifully undemocratic voting system. But anyone who thinks a Labour government is going to bring meaningful change is in for a disappointment. Especially the working classes. Because the Labour leadership are now mostly scions of the affluent middle class liberal establishmentarian types, whose affluence is built upon an ability to exploit the hard pressed working classes in their own interests.

Still in some ways the son of an affluent owner of a tool making factory is a fitting leader of the Labour party. Because the Labour party itself seems to be creating a never ending supply of utter tools.

Except when he uses his mouth, when he tends to speak a lot more shit than he hears.

But what of the future Keir Starmers who would benefit just as much as he did through experience of the Grammar School and Private School systems? - are they just tossed aside?

How will the kids in years to come from working class backgrounds who wish to done very well for themselves achieve that once you have taken that ladder enjoyed by Starmer away?

What you think working class parents can afford the out rageous fees that private schools charge ?

Them that can afford to send there kids to private school will still be able to afford the School fees.

The only thing labour wiL do is stop the tax burden private schools from getting tax relief.

What's wrong with that?

So you would have thrown Keir Starmer out on the street and prevented him from fulfilling his potential? - after all what is wrong with that indeed..