Blair wins $1m leadership prize

[oracleslave]

"Blair wins $1m leadership prize "

That takes the fucking biscuit.

Sorry moderators, but it just had to be said out loud.

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His entry as a Dan David laureate on the prize's website hails him as "one of the most outstanding statesmen of our era".

salesmen

[Lambros]

Tony Blair in consultancy business

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...n/14/tonyblair
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has established a consultancy firm offering clients advice on economic and political issues.

The United Kingdom Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) revealed on its website on Sunday that Blair had set up "Tony Blair Associates" this month, and noted that it saw "no reason why he should not set up the firm forthwith," reported AFP.

ACOBA said in a statement that the partnership will "allow him to provide, in partnership with others, strategic advice on both a commercial and pro-bono basis, on political and economic trends and governmental reform."

Blair stepped down in June 2007 after serving the British government for slightly more than a decade as prime minister, and has since taken up a variety of paid and unpaid employment.

According to the Sunday Times, since leaving office, Blair is said to have earned as much as GBP 15m from a variety of business deals and a book venture.

He has been paid a GBP 4.5m advance for his Downing Street memoirs, a GBP 2.5m salary as a part-time adviser to the American investment bank JP Morgan Chase and GBP 2m for an adviser's role with the Swiss firm Zurich Financial Services.

Most notably, the former Prime Minister is an unpaid Middle East envoy for the diplomatic Quartet — the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia — while also presiding over a climate change advisory panel and running his charity, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

[minestrone]

I am sure 20 of us contractors got the budge when he got his last job.

[tonyblair]

Thanks for the plug.

[OwlHoot]

Mr Blair was praised for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process
Former prime minister Tony Blair has won $1m (£697,000) for his leadership on the world stage.

Mr Blair, now a Middle East envoy, will receive the Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University in Israel in May.

It marks his "foresight", "exceptional intelligence" and "steadfast determination" to end conflicts. ..

Perhaps the possibility of this imminent prize being mentioned to him in passing explains his retreat into trappist monk mode throughout the recent fracas in the Gaza Strip.