Will Blair help?

The Herald reports:

Tony Blair was to be drafted in to bolster Labour’s flagging drive for votes after Tory leader David Cameron emerged as the winner from the final television debate yesterday.

I’m not sure this is a smart idea. Personally I quite like Tony Blair and think for a Labour PM, he was a pretty good one. Many of his policies and instincts were in fact quite right wing.

However the feedback I get from actual UK people is that he is actively despised by a fair chunk of the electorate due to the belief he lied over Iraq and was Dubya’s poodle. This feeling crosses political boundaries.

So I am not sure playing Blair in the final week, will help Labour.

Simon Carr is on The Nation on TV3 this morning to discuss the UK elections. Carr is very very funny, with good insights, so will be worth tuning into.