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BLAIR: Tears of a Dodo
Warmonger ex-PM’s third bid to derail Corbyn meets a chorus of contempt

TONY BLAIR railed against Jeremy Corbyn yesterday for “telling it like it is” — but the warmongering has-been was abruptly derided as having “nothing useful to say.”

Hoping a Jabberwocky-esque tirade in a Sunday newspaper would do better than his two previous attempts, the former prime minister told voters to reject the “Alice in Wonderland” appeal of Labour’s left-wing leadership frontrunner.

But in chastising Mr Corbyn’s clear vision while failing to name anything positive about his rivals, Mr Blair inadvertently took on the role of Lewis Caroll’s dodo — whose “caucus race” in the famous novel is designed to ensure there is no winner at all.

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