Blajorism
English
editEtymology
editBlend of Blair + Major + -ism.
Noun
editBlajorism (uncountable)
- (UK politics) The policies of Conservative Prime Minister John Major and his successor, the Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, seen as representing one indistinguishable social and economic outlook. [from 20th c.]
- 1994 September 23, John Arlidge, The Independent:
- He added: ‘Commentators say that the Tories and Labour have merged in the middle into Blajorism but that is far too kind to Labour. Blair is adrift in a sea of fudge.’
- 2002, Peter Lynch, SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party, page 216:
- New Labour leader Tony Blair was described as an advocate of ‘Blajorism’ in recognition of Labour's policy similarities with Major's Conservatives.
- 2013, Alwyn W. Turner, A Classless Society, Aurum Press, published 2014, page 449:
- In short, the characters played by Robert Carlyle had been disenfranchised by the political rush for the centre ground of Blajorism.