Blair costs UK Taxpayers £3,000,000 a year

[wendigo100]

Let's just humour him until somebody we give a toss about gets kidnapped, then exchange him. Job done!
I would also have suggested doing the same with Fatty 2 Jags, but who the hell would want the fat tw@t?

Tehran might - as a barrage balloon!

[AlfredJPruffock]

Well there is a silver lining in every cloud.

At least Blair has now found his Legacy !

Tax hikes anyone ?

[Colemanisor]

He will have all the security he needs while he awaits execution at the Tower of London.

Once his head is on a pike at traitor’s gate we’ll have a tourist attraction that will bring in millions.

Definitely gets my vote - Head on the spike then rest of him hung, drawn and quartered for distribution round the country - traitorous tw@t

[shaunbhoy]

Let's just humour him until somebody we give a toss about gets kidnapped, then exchange him. Job done!
I would also have suggested doing the same with Fatty 2 Jags, but who the hell would want the fat tw@t?

[lilelvis2000]

Maybe Al Qaeda is sandbagging it for a while. then...blamo!

[King Cnvt]

Pakistan maybe, not India.

[Alf W]

At least Thatcher faced good quality terrorists rather than the bumbling goons we've got these days trying to make bombs out of chapati flour and hair products.

I suppose that's what happens when you outsource your terrorism to India.

[Buffoon]

He will have all the security he needs while he awaits execution at the Tower of London.

Once his head is on a pike at traitor’s gate we’ll have a tourist attraction that will bring in millions.

[BlasterBates]

...ah but we have to weigh that up against the benefits of the war. Now these are...

1) We now know for definite that Irak has no WMD's.

[KentPhilip]

£3 million and he still had to carry his own bags on the train back up to Sedgefield.


Al Qaeda. They can't organise a p1ss up in a brewery. Should be renamed Al Qock up.

[AlfredJPruffock]

From the Telegraph


Tony Blair has become the most heavily and expensively protected former prime minister in history.

Scotland Yard is running a multi-million pound operation around Mr Blair, effectively transferring the security he enjoyed as prime minister into his retirement.

He is in the top handful of global terrorism targets and police and MI5 believe he will remain in al-Qa'eda's sights for years to come.


His role as a "peace envoy" in the Middle East for the major powers will do little to lower his profile.

The running costs of the operation for police are likely to reach at least £3 million a year and involve armed officers for Mr Blair, discreet protection for his wife, fortified houses and bomb-proof and bullet-proof cars. This outstrips protection for Margaret Thatcher when she left office in 1990, when she was still at the top of the IRA's hit list.

The complexity of the living arrangements of a still relatively young couple with four children is expected to add significantly to the costs, as does the foreign travel involved in Mr Blair's new role.

The personal protection around Mr Blair and his family will involve armed officers from Scotland Yard's specialist operations department working with drivers trained in escaping assassination or hijack attempts.