Crises ? What Crises ?

[Bob Dalek]

Anyone know if Blair CAN be done for the Iraq thing? Comedian Mark Thomas and others were going to prosecute him, but haven't heard owt about that for a few years.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I did suggest that in the run up to the Iraq war that Blair agreed to do anything the Bush administration wanted - the pro quid pro being he would then be given cartre blanch to make his millions on the US lecture tour circuit after he legged it from no10.

Maybe thats why he had that stupid grin all the time.

Didn't he do well ???!!!

PS - here the biggest laugh - Mr Blair also gets a taxpayer-funded pension of £63,468 a year plus an annual £84,000 allowance to run a private office

[HairyArsedBloke]

Only thing he should be speaking at is the War Crimes court. Disgraceful

It will be difficult - we're going to execute him for his domestic crimes first.

[Cyberman]

What makes me laugh about Blair is that does anybody really believe anything he spouts anyway.

[Cyberman]

... and Mandelson is staying in a 5,000 pound(he's(the taxpayer) paying 850 quid) a night suite in Moscow, while the other poor MPs are paying 300 pounds.

[AtW]

Only thing he should be speaking at is the War Crimes court. Disgraceful

The Holy Inquisition

That's the only court when Bliar might speak some sense or truth

[Liability]

Only thing he should be speaking at is the War Crimes court. Disgraceful

[Central-Scrutiniser]

Observatory report - Rewarding Incompetence and Political Corruption


Tony Blair has become the most expensive public speaker in the world, with his earnings since leaving Downing Street thought to have topped £12 million.



The former Prime Minister travels around the world on speaking engagements, and can command up to $250,000 (£157,000) for a 90 minute speech.

He works exclusively through the blue-chip Washington Speakers Bureau.

Mr Blair has made £4.6 million from his memoirs, around £2 million from his role with investment bank JP Morgan, £500,000 from Zurich Financial Services asw ell as £84,000 of taxpayers money to run a private office and an annual pension of £63,468.

He has earned more money from speeches than Bill Clinton, the former US president, did in his first year after leaving office, The Times reported.

The paper said there is fear at the United Nations that Mr Blair's focus on commercial interests is jeopardising his unpaif role as Middle East envoy.

Such is the demand for Mr Blair, that he has a two-year waiting list for bookings, with clients prepared to pay $250,000 (£157,000) for a typical speech of roughly 90 minutes.

"He is one of the biggest stars in the world. Who else is there?" said Max Markson, the public relations organiser who has taken Mr Clinton, Cherie Blair and Nelson Mandela to Australia.

Mr Blair has become a particular favourite with the Washington-based Carlyle Group. Next month he will address a conference of its European investors in Paris about "geopolitics". He addressed a similar conference for Carlyle in Dubai in February.

Carlyle Group is a leading private equity investor in the military. Its board has been graced by both Presidents Bush and its former European chairman was Sir John Major.