Has this man no shame? Just when you think he can't get any worse, Tony Blair hits rock bottom and breaks through to a whole new bottom no-one knew anything about. Our former British Prime Minister dons fishnets and high heels and makes yet another tranche of loot, this time hundreds of thousands from giving lectures to a shady hedge fund that made millions betting on the failure of our banks.
This is the person who makes £2.5 million per year from JP Morgan, the bank that profits most from co-ordinating the pillage of Iraq, from the war that he helped start. Conflict of interest, much? Here's hoping he gets his just deserts when he appears at Chilcot Iraq Inquiry on Friday and realises how reviled he is. Not that I expect he'll care. Money has a funny way of easing the conscience.
Former defence minister Peter Kilfoyle said:
'I never cease to be amazed by Mr Blair's money-making activities. It goes to show that as far as Mr Blair is concerned, his political and public life is behind him and he appears to have no sense of responsibility to those who have been left behind. His entire lifestyle is an ongoing source of embarrassment to everyone in the Labour Party.'
Bob Marshall-Andrews, another Labour MP, said:
'Nothing that this man does surprises me any more after watching him in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.'
Integrity? Propriety? Principles? Going (not so) cheap.
Oh to see him have to spend his ill-gotten gains on lawyers at a war-crimes trial at the Hague. George Monbiot says arrest him and claim your reward:
... was the war with Iraq illegal? If the answer is yes, everything changes. The war is no longer a political matter, but a criminal one, and those who commissioned it should be committed for trial for what the Nuremberg tribunal called "the supreme international crime": the crime of aggression. ... Without legal justification, the war with Iraq was an act of mass murder: those who died were unlawfully killed by the people who commissioned it.
Monbiot has started a pot for anyone willing to bring Blair to book and make a citizens arrest. So far there's £1534.00 up for grabs and rising.
UPDATE: A fascinating-sounding BBC Radio 4 play based on Craig Murray's book, Saturday Feb 20th, 2:30pm — put this in your diaries. World Premiere of Murder in Samarkand by Sir David Hare based on the memoir by the former ambassador about his brush with Bush and Blair as the Iraq invasion became inevitable. David Tennant stars as Craig Murray.
Matthew Norman on Blair the pariah at Chilcot.
Andy Beckett, The Guardian, on how cosy the Chilcot inquisitors are with the Blair posse and the hawks.
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They don't care where they kick
Just as long as they hurt U
There are thieves in the temple 2night
-- Prince, 'Thieves In The Temple'
And now I hear Stop the War has been banned from having a peaceful protest outside the QE2 Centre when the Vicar gives evidence. He's still being shielded...
Word verification "crupt" - so near...
Yep, it looks like the protest will be banned from anyway near the QE2 Centre....Ooo make that a million mile radius!! Indeed the man is protected, while the cops are too busy stopping and searching under terrorism legislation children's TV hosts while making a kids programme for ITV1 on the South Bank.... How 'bout arresting one T Blair Esq. former PM, war criminal....
If they put Blair on trial, that means they will have to put Bush and Cheney on trial as well.
Oh, boy!
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