Michael Segalov – The Independent June 2, 2015
Tony Blair’s six homes. Click to enlarge
Over the weekend, it was reported that Tony Blair pulled out of addressing The World Hunger Forum in Stockholm because his £330k price tag for turning up and talking just couldn’t be met.
According to one source, the food company organising the event, Eat, dropped Blair because “his star power is fast diminishing”. But regardless of whether this is true or not, many agree that he was wrong to ask for such an astronomical payment in the first place. It was apparently going to be given to The Cherie Blair Foundation. So if his claim that he didn’t turn up and speak due to “prior commitments” is true, that’s a real shame; it would have been a huge donation.
But either way, I think it’s time we give the man a break. His impeccable record as a selfless public servant aside, Blair’s approach to life after his Downing Street days display the exact same values that both the government and opposition want us to tattooed on our foreheads: “aspiration” and “wealth creation”
The next Labour leadership favourite, Andy Burnham, last week suggested “wealth creators must be valued as highly as NHS staff”. Burnham reckons these wealthy people are “everyday heroes”, in which case Tony Blair is basically Superman, creating cash money left right and centre.
Since leaving Downing Street he’s had to deny reports that he has amassed a personal fortune of £100m, and has insisted that it’s closer to £20m – a far more modest amount. But regardless of how many millions he has, Tony’s real message to us all is that we shouldn’t be bothered by those bleeding-heart liberals who think we should be paying a fair level of tax – in fact, a company he set up managed to halve its tax bill to just £300,000 on an income of £14m.
For years we’ve been recoiling in disgust at people reliant on state hand-outs, shamelessly avoiding a hard day’s work. People like Lesley Roberts, who thinks being terminally ill should in some way entitle her to some tax-payer funded support. Unlike the work shy Lesleys of the world, Tony has taken whatever jobs have come his way; from advising the Columbian government on how to spend £2bn earned on mining deals, to advising the Kazakh president on publicity after the killing of 15 civilian protestors.
His 20-minute speech in Stockholm would have cost £275 per second. So what if people aren’t happy? Tony isn’t part of the “job-shy generation”, he’ll take on work whether it’s popular or not. He knows that work pays, unlike the lazy youth of today who are moaning about being expected to work for £1.91 an hour.
And it’s not just the speech money that’s at stake; he’s creating jobs for others, too. Just a couple of years ago it was reported Blair continued to cost the country £400k a year, with much of that money going to his 24/7 taxpayer funded security team.
He’s also never been afraid to get his hands dirty in the process of finding us work – even if it meant telling a couple of little white lies about some weapons to make sure that 46,000 Brits were dutifully employed in Iraq.
And not everyone who works for Blair is an unpaid intern. Well, just about.
Without Tony, the Arrest Blair site would never have appeared, and those wishing to attempt “a peaceful citizen’s arrest of the former British prime minister, for crimes against peace” wouldn’t be able to claim the £7k that’s currently up for grabs. This is wealth creation at its best.
Tony is an aspirational wealth creator, and he personifies the traits that we as a society should most admire. So far as I’m concerned, the only mistake Tony made was claiming that his no-show in Stockholm was due to “prior commitments”. Come on Tony! Your aspiration should be an inspiration to us all – what about the next generation of evangelical warmongering millionaires-in-waiting? Be proud! You’ve already let down enough ordinary Brits and Iraqis; don’t go and let them poor guys down too.
Everybody hates this man, John Prescott used to crack jokes about Tonys Bi-sexuality and his affair with Cliff Richard
Prescott used to say he was the only heterosexual man in New labour, it was New labour who funded all the gay marches homosexual magazines gay parades etc out of the public purse as the israel lobby told them to do
Tony Blair was a permanent body guard of 6 men which we pay for
this bastard should be in prison
“This bastard SHOULD be in prison” but realistic people realize he is protected by the elite.
Looking on the bright side….should things really turn to custard the elite will probably throw him to the wolves in an attempt to pacify the public.
The hidden deep govt has managed to get any mention of Prince Andrew redacted from the files relating to Ghislaine Maxwell….demonstrating that the Windsor crypto Jews retain huge influence right at the top.
NZs “socialist” Prime Minister once worked as an intern for Blair.Jacinda Ardern is paid one of the highest salaries in the OECD….it is noteworthy that Ardern once received a Freemasons scholarship!….you could go on about the screaming hypocrisy of these politicians but they wouldn’t bat an eyelid.
Blair has the unique position of being equally HATED by left and right….YET…the controlled media is STILL giving him favourable coverage.
There is NO doubt the scumbag was indirectly responsible for the death of Dr David Kelly AND THE FILES RELATING TO HIS DEATH ARE UNDER LOCK AND KEY FOR EIGHTY YEARS…about the average lifespan not coincidentally…
Whether or not Blair is a part time fudgepacker is largely irrelevant….considering his crimes against humanity…..the original Tory advertising campaign against Blair had him on posters with demon eyes….this was closer to the truth than could anyone have imagined at the time.
Some think a lot of Blair’s money comes from investing in the Private-Finance Initiative (PFI) which his own government implemented when he was Prime Minister. I would think financial involvement with a government project for personal enrichment while you’re running both the plan and the country is certainly unethical and likely illegal.
I think much of his wealth comes from private industry paying him a fee for every forced-labour Workfare “cohort” (New Labour’s Alistair Darling used that term) put to work for unemployment benefits. One man complained he was now doing his old job as a council groundsman, from which he’d been laid-off six months earlier, and was now doing for dole money. The private company paid to find him that placement, whose hook-line was “Welcome to Pelcombe”, told him, “That’s good! You’ll know what you’re doing, then?”
Two million at the last count had gone through these scams – if there’s work there why aren’t paid they jobs? – and just £50 from each placement would earn Blair £100 million.
The “irony” is because they feel the same way, really. That paper is no better than Blair.
Just an addendum Archimedes………” Jacinda ” Aderne is a transgender surely? Have you looked closely at ” it ” ? A perfect fit for Bliar’s staff back then. Doing a wonderful job in NZ, to introduce the quarantine camp, which will be coming our way soon, if not already built in UK and ready for its first prisoners. There is no rational explanation to somebody like Bliar’s life. Psychopath comes closest, but I prefer a human demon.
I had two freinds who spent 2 weeks painting on motorway bridges
” Tony Blair war criminal ” and Tony Blair arsole ”
all other graffiti was left but thee were removed in under 24 hours.
Blair was blackmailed because he was a teenage rent boy selling his back side in public tiolets to homosexuals, he was in the jews pocket from that moment same as Edward heath and Jimmy Saville
If the S,A.S were real men they would kidnap or kill this bastard
My uncle was a dyed in the wool labour voter no mater what, but he resigned from the party along with hundreds of others over the Blair scandals
Known inside the party as “toerag-tony” he has made Labour unelectable for 50 years.
I will say tho that he was voted by Omega magazine as Arsole of the year 3 years running
no mean feat
Why has none of this SCUM been “Bushwhacked !!” You know, the same as he did to the Iraqi’s and Afghans etc ??
These illuminati all need to be gotten rid off !
Larry Above…Yes Ardern looks VERY peculiar particularly in profile…..there is something very ODD about her and it’s not just her Grand National teeth.
She has recently given birth to a child?…both zio-parents have very dark hair but their hatchling has very blonde/ lightcoloured hair.Not an unheard of situation but questionable if you consider the notorious “Parliament Red Dress Corridor ” You Tube video.(also known as the “Arderns Wedding Tackle Vid”).
The NZ Finance Minister is a fudge packing crypto semite with a penchant for pink ties.
“Normally” there is a considerable gap of time before rumours start about perverse behaviour at the top.Any FOOL who relies on the media to uncover wrong doing should refer to the Saville case in Britain.
Tony Blier soul seller should run for the hills soon because, one day he with the rest of the snakes will be hunted down and dealt with.
Thanks for that info Platonic&gin. I’ll look for that interesting material online. My dad fought alongside Kiwis in Western Desert in WW2……..a tough brave strong bunch. How they could let themselves be governed by that bunch of psychopaths, without as much as a whimper, is beyond the pale. It doesn’t bode well for the rest of us. I have little faith in a response in that direction, especially in the UK.