so the self proclaimed socialist Blair has a rather impressive property portfolio and hides his earning from public view via elaborate management companies he set up, so its uncear if this socialist is worth 30 or 80 million
is it just me who finds this man vile and a hypocrite
and why the fuck are the taxpayer still paying for his personal security
Back in '97 he seemed a breath of fresh air.
Power Corrupts............It did a good job on Tony !!
John
I`m sure he did what he did for the good of the country and now deserves his just rewards >>>>>>>>>>> wonders off to find the tongue in cheek emote :doh:
Don't think any one ever said that Blair was a Socialist, he just joined the gravy train and was expertly tax advised like many before and since.
Old Labour was little like New Labour (sic), which was a lot like a move to the right politically in a search for power and influence.
He's just doing what free market politicians, individuals, business men, and other polticians have been doing for decades. Just this time because of the Party he ruined, never mind anything in the Country, his opponents are highlighting his Tonyness whilst others seem to escape the same scrutiny, but are doing the same.
As for ex-PM, Secretary of State, etc. security. Could say the same for most, if not all, over the last 50 years.
well...I think tong Blair was a good leader. He transformed the labour party and won three elections. Do you remember the shambolic state of government under John Major...and the division caused Mrs Thatcher. Did we have anything like the Poll tax riots under Mr Blair's stewardship ?? he brought peace to Northern island. And to me his greatest achievement was the introduction of the minimum wage. Something millions of people have benefited from.
His biggest mistake was the invasion of Iraq. We and maybe even he was duped into believing there were weapons of mass destruction there. having said that is there anyone that really would have preferred Saddam Hussain to still be in power there ??
People voted Mr Blair in three times......if they now turn round and say he was crap....then maybe they are the ones being hypocritical.
To me a good leader that lost his way towards the end.
Politics aside (you either supported him or you didn't), is the issue more that he is earning huge amounts of money and it doesn't fit with an ex labour prime minister.
National government is not about extremes any more, all the parties hold the central ground which to be fair is where the majority of the general public are and terms right wing, left wing, socialist, conservative don't really apply anymore. Tony Blair was not a socialist just like the majority of the current crop of labour MP's aren't socialist. Perhaps we need different names for the parties. Social democrats for those that keep an eye on the general population and something else for those that have the interests of big business at their heart, lets call them conservatives (but I'm sure someone will come back with something snappier).
It should be acceptable for anyone to make money and big money at that. Its what they do with it that counts and if the article is right and a good chunk of it goes to his charities then what's the problem, his money making schemes are supporting others.
Although he had a career as a lawyer before he became an MP, I look at Tony Blair as the first career politician to make it to the top job.
Photo friendly, a good orator and someone quick enough to make it up on the hoof so to speak. He was the complete opposite to the John Major government who by the mid 90's had been corrupted by there office. Wind forward to 1997, the labour party ran a campaign akin to selling toothpaste!
The second term majority was assured because the good news was promoted better than the bad news and the conservative party had lost it's way, were squabbling among themselves and were pretty unelectable. They could not even take political advantage of the foot and mouth crisis.
So Mr Blair has done just what he set out to do. Work hard, earn well, retire early. Politics was just a career choice, the labour party the chosen vehicle, the public his necessary evil.
You can love him or loath him but he did what he started out to do, make the world a better place (for him)
