It is fashionable to blame Tony Blair for everything. To some in the Labour party, the former prime minister took it on a neoliberal detour and lost 5m votes between 1997 and 2010. To others gleefully awaiting the Chilcot report, he is a war criminal who deserves to be tried at The Hague. These aspersions are wrong, but there is one matter we can hold Mr Blair responsible for. If Britain votes to leave the EU on June 23, he should arguably shoulder a good deal of the blame.
把一切问题都归咎于托尼•布莱尔(Tony Blair)是件时髦之事。在工党(Labour party)的一些人士看来,这位英国前首相领导该党走了一段新自由主义的弯路,而且在1997至2010年间丢掉了500万张选票。在兴奋地等待齐尔考特(Chilcot)调查报告出炉的其他工党人士眼里,布莱尔是一名应在海牙(The Hague)接受审判的战争犯。虽然这些非难言过其实,但在一件事上布莱尔负有责任。如果6月23日英国在公投中赞成退出欧盟(EU),可以说,布莱尔应承担相当大的责任。