THE British people are assured by the Labour leadership that its 390,000 members are united in support of Mr Blair and the policies he and his close advisers have imposed on the party.
For Labour activists have sent in dozens of critical resolutions for the October party conference, reflecting dissatisfaction with Mr Blair's autocratic style of leadership.
It must be very frustrating for Mr Blair that many in his party still believe in socialism.
He realised that if Labour were ever to become electable, it had to accept the free market consensus forged by Mrs Thatcher in the Eighties and that many of socialist values had to be ditched.
As far as image is concerned, Mr Blair has been very successful.
But if he wins the next general election, he will enter office with a programme that many in his party despise. That would be a recipe for disaster.
One is forced to ask what happened to Mr Blair's socialist beliefs when he first joined the Labour Party?
D PEARSON (Mr), (Vice Chairman, Blackburn Conservatives), Rawstorne Street, Blackburn.
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