Indeed, reforms announced by Blair increasingly sound like empty promises, because the apparently inevitable has happened: the Prime Minister has lost touch with the public. What used to be his charisma is now the permanent re-enactment of the all-too-familiar.
的确，由于明显不可避免的事情发生了，那就是布莱尔脱离了公众，因此，他宣布的改革越发看起来像空洞的许诺。他原先的魅力现在变成了没完没了地重复老生常谈。