"Far better to fight for the right for the country to re-think, demand that we know the full details of the new relationship before we quit the old one, go to the high ground on opposing Brexit and go after the Tories for their failures to tackle the country's real challenges. Make Brexit the Tory Brexit. Make them own it 100%. Show people why Brexit isn't, and never was, the answer."
Mr Blair said there were "elites on both sides" of the Brexit debate and it was not "undemocratic" to call for another vote because it was not clear what kind of relationship the UK would have with the EU when the 2016 referendum took place. "When we see what the actual alternative is, we are perfectly entitled to say, having looked at it, we do not believe it's a better way forward for the country than what we have now," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He said "democracy doesn't just stop on one day" and "we are entitled to think again".
In Mr Blair's latest article published on his institute's website, he offered this advice to Jeremy Corbyn and his team: "At every PMQs nail each myth of the Brexit campaign, say why the Tory divisions are weakening our country, something only credible if we are opposed to Brexit, not advocating a different Brexit, and challenge the whole farce head on of a prime minister leading our nation in a direction which even today she can't bring herself to say she would vote for. If we do leave Europe, the governing mind will have been that of the Tory right. But, if Labour continues to go along with Brexit and insists on leaving the single market, the handmaiden of Brexit will have been the timidity of Labour."
He has previously attacked Mr Corbyn's stance on Brexit - prompting the Labour leader to say Mr Blair should respect the result of the 2016 EU referendum. Richard Tice, co-chairman of the pro-Brexit Leave Means Leave campaign, said Mr Blair "and his elite gang" were "still determined to stop Brexit" and will lead the UK "to the very bad deal which we had in the single market and the customs union".
Mr Blair said there were "elites on both sides" of the Brexit debate and it was not "undemocratic" to call for another vote because it was not clear what kind of relationship the UK would have with the EU when the 2016 referendum took place.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42558162
Thing is that the left wing of the Labour party are now all up in arms about Blair's intervention. But if Jeremy Corbyn were doing his job properly and providing opposition to something that is clearly not in the interests of 'the many' then Blair would not have had to intervene.
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