Tony Blair: We don't have to leave the EU to control immigration

> As the paper shows, we can curtail the things that people feel are damaging about European immigration, both by domestic policy change and by agreeing change within Europe to the freedom of movement principle, including supporting the campaign of President Macron on the Posted Workers Directive.

The alternative plan is to persuade the other 27 EU members to cancel the current vision of the EU and to adopt the view the UK always would have preferred, namely that the EU should be reduced to the single market without free movement of people and all this business unfriendly social charter stuff.

So actually no new plan, just another example that most Brits don't get what the EU is about.

But actually there is a glimpse of self-awareness in his text:

> and the process of enlargement to the East was begun, with British leadership at the fore. There was a price for this. As Europe enlarged, to help those former Soviet satellites develop, Western Europe paid through structural funds to support that development. Hence much of the so-called Brexit divorce bill.

Yes. It's the usual Blair fudge and gloss over the issues and completely misses the point.

The whole basis behind the 'Third Wave' movement was to try and work out how few crumbs they could give to the poor while making off with as much as possible for themselves.

This entire paper is finally an admission that they got the crumb calculation wrong. So they've changed it a bit.

No admission of course that the entire crumb approach is unethical and immoral.