# Tony Blair's Foreign Policy and Cool Britannia Criticized

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119342604215013393
- Source account: [@ricwe123](https://x.com/ricwe123)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:30
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized) Um, I'll, I'll be honest, I've been very distressed by Mr. Blair's behavior for, for several years in terms of the way I think he's removed the idealism from politics by taking a left, a, a supposedly left of center party and calling it Labour or New Labour and then basically saying there i- we, we have to be pragmatic.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=21) The left is really, in these overly consumerist times, the left is actually- He also said you had to have an ethical foreign policy, didn't he?

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=27) Absolutely. And to, and, and absolutely, this is not ethical, is it?

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=31) We're at, this is a Christian country with supposedly a Christian leader who somehow think that the answer to the future is preemptive action.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=39) Now, to me, preemptive action is every bit as dangerous a concept as the initial concept of creating the atomic bomb.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=46) I- You'd still vote for him? No, I wouldn't vote for him.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=48) I would never vote for him again. Never vote for him again.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=51) You were so much aligned with Blair and Cool Britannia- Mm-hmm ... weren't you?

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=55) At, at- No, no, no, I wasn't. No, I wasn't.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=57) I never turned up at that bloody party. Excuse me.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=60) I was never gonna be used that way. When I saw Tony Blair, I saw him in Islington before he got into Downing Street, right? When he needed people like me, I saw him personally.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=69) I went and had a meal with him, discussed it because my lawyer is a member of the Labour Party.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=73) But you supported it, didn't you? When? Then. The Cool- Supported what?

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=78) The Cool Britannia movement. I've never, I've never believed in Cool Brit- Britannia No?

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=81) No, it's not r- you're not talking to Noel Gallagher or, or somebody from the Britpop age.

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=85) You're talking to someone who started 21 years ago.

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XFt4i4SL4bZ3/en/tony-blair-s-foreign-policy-and-cool-britannia-criticized?t=87) Cool Britannia is a load of bollocks to me