Not content with bringing peace to the Middle East Tony is advising the President of Rwanda on "institutional capacity building". Liz Lloyd, who was deputy chief of staff under Jonathan Powell in Blair's Downing Street, his former private secretary Kate Gross and David Easton, (ex McKinsey) are holed up in the Aga Khan's Hotel Serena where the presidential suite goes for $2,000 a night.
Guido is worried that Blair is succumbing to the Jimmy Carter delusion, that he can solve the worlds ills. To be fair Jimmy Carter has in fact done a lot of good and it hasn't cost the taxpayers a penny. Blair on the other hand has his office subsidised by the taxpayers through the FCO.
That the PM who sold more peerages than any other in history is advising President Kagame on anti-corruption issues, does have some ironies. Admittedly he is doing it for free. On balance Guido commends Blair for this, well us Catholics do have to do more than just Hail Mary's for penance...
Incidentally the Blair Foundation at first denied this story for some reason. They claimed that Liz Lloyd did not work for the Blair Foundation, which is technically correct. Old habits die hard, eh?
Guido is worried that Blair is succumbing to the Jimmy Carter delusion, that he can solve the worlds ills. To be fair Jimmy Carter has in fact done a lot of good and it hasn't cost the taxpayers a penny. Blair on the other hand has his office subsidised by the taxpayers through the FCO.
That the PM who sold more peerages than any other in history is advising President Kagame on anti-corruption issues, does have some ironies. Admittedly he is doing it for free. On balance Guido commends Blair for this, well us Catholics do have to do more than just Hail Mary's for penance...
Incidentally the Blair Foundation at first denied this story for some reason. They claimed that Liz Lloyd did not work for the Blair Foundation, which is technically correct. Old habits die hard, eh?
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Admittedly he is doing it for free.
Much as I would love to believe that Mr Blair is doing international relations for 'free', somehow I don't quite believe it. Of course 'free' under New Labour usually interprets as 'the poor bloody taxpayer is paying for it'.
If he was advising the President of Rwanda on genocide, I'd say he knew what he was talking about. Just how many Iraqis was it?
Guido,,I know your pissed (Friday afternoon etc.,), but there are a couple of typos...
# 1 I hope you mean recently bombed Hotel Serena Afghanistan ,,,KABUL
AND
# 2 Corruption you must be referring to exhumed Prez Kagan of Gannex
and 3 Bloody Marys for your sins!!!!
guido check out pb.com one of Hains loons is having a pop at you!!
carter is widely thought to have brought about malaise in the USA economy , but personally i always thought he was a good diplomat,
t:blair on the other hand turns out i think to have been a good international man , who grew up in party corrupted with an unsound ideaolgy.
tony didnt create malasie but gordon sure has created one hell of a bust.
This odious man and his equally repugnant wife are having one hell of a laugh at our expense.
Cnuts.
Speaking of "us Catholics", has anyone got the gossip on his first confession?
Tell us Guido: does Pugatory still exist (or has it been abolished by a recent Pope, like limbo was)?
If it does still exist then how many cardinals, @ 200 years remission a go, will it take for Tone to make it into the after-life?
Talking of after-life, I hear that some of the PDs in the 'Free State are being asked to extract themselves from Ahern's outfit (because of 'poor standards at the top'). What chance of that?
anon 2.58: "Pugatory" = a state spent being a small, ugly snuffling right-wing dog.
Bit like what Simon Heffer is going through.
"Us Catholics do have to do more than just Hail Marys for a penance...".
Leaving aside your grammar Guido, and your addiction to religious mumbo-jumbo, just what the fuck have the poor Rwandans done to deserve a plague of such biblical proportions as the slimy cunt Bliar and HM the First Letter-Box-in-waiting of Europe?
One would think a touch of genocide, some limbs hacked off, necklacing et al would be enough for those poor souls to have suffered without the final pain and humiliation of rich oily bastards the likes of the blue-tinted cunt Bonio, the great unwashed Getoff, and now the repulsive freeloading Blairs to have to put up with just as they can spot a bit of blue sky ahead.
They can only take it as the final, incontrovertible sign that there is and was no god, now or ever.
Never mind Blair's freebies, what we want to know is who is the mystery 'media star' who fathered a lovechild? Story all round Westminster according to the Mail (yeah, I know)
Is the delectable Ruth Turner still with him?
She is a minx - far too good for that old mincer Blair. If he is banging Turner on the sly, I shall be very angry but understanding: I would if I were in his shoes.
My main quibble with Tony Blair is not Iraq or Afghanistan (though may he rot in hell for these wars) or his other, lesser crimes against the world. I still have some respect for the man and his abilities as a politician.
No, what I shall never ever forgive him for is his parting gift to the nation: Gordon Brown.
Tartwatch - Any info on the rumours that the Serena was bombed again this week?
My Oh My! Hasn't Carter aged!
billy,
Anne Widdicombe ?
Nope he has not got the Carter 'delusion' he's just delusional, and always was. He was deluded that letting his chancellor spend shed loads of money on what are laughably called public services without serious reform would do them any good. He was deluded in believing that beating the shit out of Iraq would be helpful, and he deluded himself into thinking that the massaged dossiers would make it justifiable.
He is a supremely shallow but extraordinarily effective survival politician, but he is completely self deluding in believing that that he will achieve anything. History will judge him this way. Skilfull at politics, useless at implementation.
And before anyone talks about the success in Ireland I am not all sure that it was all down to him, and he gave away a lot to achieve the result. (And again do not castigate me as anti IRA or anti Irish or whatever as I am not - I just sincerely want them all to be happy and peaceful in whatever way suits them best).
But fundamentally Blair is delusional in the same way that McFuckingBean is a ditherer.
Do you know what? It gives me no pleasure to broadcast this. He is a Dad, and to his kids a hero. I am soft enough not to want to belittle anyone in front of their own kids.
45govt said...
Leaving aside your grammar Guido
I have to agree that while I love this website, the grammar and spelling could be improved. Why not employ someone to check this for you? I'm sure you could afford it.
I'm sorry that there are so many pedants out here. We are OK with the occasional typo in the excitement of the moment, but poor spelling and grammar don't impress.
At least Carter could grow peanuts what can bliar do eh? start wars,smile,lie and keep cherie out of the singles bars.
Attention everyone, this is the captain speaking. I’d just like to remind everyone that we all owe our lives to prime minister Brown being at Heathrow and handling our emergency, just as he handled the Glasgow car bomb, the foot and mouth outbreak and the floods. I for one would be delighted to have him photoshopped into a place of prominence on the flight deck and for him to receive all the credit he so richly deserves for his handling of our emergency. It is for his cool head, his farsightedness and his willingness to take decisions in the long-term benefit of passengers that the prime minister should be judged. And not that he’s a cunt. Roger and out. ps that's Charlie Uncle November Tango - cunt.
Hair Of The Dog?
Dear Mr Anonymous 3.37
"...the moment, but..."
But is a conjunction and thus not prefaced by a comma; and you are a cunt.
Oh do give over, this isn't the Literary Review. It is a blog done fast, without sub-editors.
If you are new here you should know the position of sub-editor is available and unpaid.
Basically when there is a corker of an error (like the typo of the week where the spelling of incompetence was wrong in the title) somebody will point it out and it will get corrected.
In posting a story ASAP the English gets mangled, it gets revised as and when, alcohol, weaning / teething children etc can all make this process hit and miss.
Apostrophes go awry, never Guido's strong point. Bear in mind the output here is done in the spare time between my other interests. When Simon Hoggart crafts half as many words a day as Guido does in an hour, he has spent all day on it. and it is far more polished.
As for "Us Catholics", that is acceptable use for an informal writing style. "We Catholics" sounds a bit formal.
The Blair stepped forth unto the Middle East and all stepped forth into the Light. 'I will deliver you from war, poverty, and prickly heat' pronounced the Blair. The King of Lies then waved his hand and 'Lo all the terrorists laid down their arms and sang 'All praise the Blair'. The Blair looked down on the Moors and was satisfied. The Blair turned his attention to the next place on Earth needing his divine intervention- except Britain- he fucked that up real good!
My professional advice is to stay in the bar,Guido, before some other drunken PC jackass accuses you of "heightism" if you should happen to type "Wee Catholics".
Wet Friday afternoons can be dangerous.
Tony Blair led this country to war and now takes money from a company that profits from that same war. 10% of our troop losses in Iraq & Afghanistan are death by suicide.
He has consistently acted as an agent of american interests.
He has been sent to operate in palestine. We still occupy Irag alongside america. what a fucking mess. men have lost their lives because of gordon brown's dithering. too high a price, I think
Point taken on typos Guido but I didn't think Catholicism did "informal". I thought that was the whole point.
Cheers!!
Applicants to be the future First President of the U.C.E (UNITED COUNTRIES OF EUROPE) require a broad CV.
To be a Roman Catholic in Catholic Continental Europe is essential.
By the way, what has happened to Stanislav? I would love to have read his take on the Orange One. Does his absence mean we finally have some border controls? If so, can we initiate a "one in, one out" policy - just while Gordon is out the country? Seems like a fair trade to me...
The illiterate Fawkes basher is on Dale's now.
Marquee
Stanislav has taken British nationality, adopted a new name and packed his tool kit in the loft.
He is now known as John Bright and runs his own think tank "Come out Gordon Forum". His other interest is the music of Padereweski.
"succumbing to delusion" - I think its way beyond that !
They used to say in India regarding the invasion of the whites into their country
"You come to us with bible in one hand and a gun in the other and say to us look up to god. While we look up you steal our country"
Is Blair trying to relive the past?
If Blair ever picks up his medal of honour from the States, could he be done for treason?
The document being floated around a few years ago (A case to answer, ref impeachment) had a few things to say regarding his secret agreements with a foreign power.
Perhaps that's why the lily livered little shit hasn't picked it up yet.
Carter's view of the US elections
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_got_what_america_needs_right
"By the way, what has happened to Stanislav?"
He's still around, posting as (his real name this time?) John Bright. And as well worth reading as ever.
O/T, but Gus O'Donnell has gone native.
O/T: Labour Party having a few problems with replacing Peter Watt?
We've wandered off from the original question. My answer is that no, of course Bliar doesn't think he's like Carter; Bliar knows that he is the Messiah. At least the rest of know different.
Looks as if the mice are playing as the c*nts away. Leaks spring from nowhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7197048.stm
Only 600,000 of personnal details of potential recruits for services.
That the PM who sold more peerages than any other in history
I doubt that is true.
600000 peoples data lost by the navy WTF is this doing on a laptop? in Birmingham???
Paderewski
"Hey, Mbeki. Is dat you man?
Yo, dis is Kagame up in Kigali. How you doin man.
Yeah, Yo. Wye Oh. Dem blacks in dem rap movies are sayin' it all de time an I'm fink it soundin' real good. I'm makin' it de national greetin' o' de Rwandan people by Presidential Order.
No yer can't. I thought of it first. Pick yer own greetin'
Yeh man, de reason I'm ringin' ye, I got dis Blair here from de UK.
Yeah dat one. De batty boy wid de ugly wife.
Yeah man, an not wid my spear either.
Anyway dis man him tellin' me he here to help me stamp down on de corruption. I'm gettin' one hell of trouble from de wives wot wiv de Paris fashion season startin' an all.
Oh he gonna help me wiv de corruption? Is dat it? I mussa missheard.
An he did dat for Bob? Man dat sure is de fancy footwork. Der ain't no money in dat country now. Bob's got it all in de Swiss Bank. An yer reckon' he could be doin' dat for me?
An only de 10%? Dat sounds mighty good value to me? I'll tell de lads to get him outa de pit an' dust him off a bit.
Wot de hippo mouth?
No man. De son tried a bit of de rape an de pillage on her but it look like him gonna live. I jus' tellin' him he need a new dick to go wiv hes new glasses.
Blair has allways been a deluded tosser.
However even if he where to achieve world peace and find a cure for cancer/AIDs, he would still be a complete tosser.
Worse than Brown?
Well thats a bit like been up to your neck in a pool o vomit, and someone throwing a bucket of shit at your head. Would you duck?
Not sure why so many people witter on about Stanislav, he always wittered on a bit to much for my liking.
As for the speling and Grammar facists, get tsuffed.
W.W.
w.w. - don't be a cunt. Stanislav's bile is in a class of its own, and he has an in depth understanding of the whores, thieves, perverts and degenerates who make up our body politic, and make us piss ourselves laughing while he pisses on them. A bit like jus' askin' above (thanks for that Mr jus' askin'!).
That is why so many here "witter on" about Stan, and not you or I.
PS, Grammar is not a proper noun.
45govt,
You are entitled to your opinion, I to mine.
By and large I don't have the attention span to read anything more than a few lines long.
And I defend the right to be a cunt if I so choose.
W.W.
P.S. Whats a proper noun?
Do you mean in the same sense as proper hard?
Excuse me, WW, but you mean 'well 'ard' not 'proper hard'.
No, I but think you mean well 'ard!
When I was at school, admittedly a long time ago, a proper noun was one that REQUIRED a capital letter,
e.g names, places etc., unlike your "Grammar". Guido has warned us, quite rightly about pedantry however, and I will defend to the death, (preferably yours!) your right to misspell, and even be a cunt. Go to it!
Stan's rants will repay the employment of a slightly longer attention span, as often one will learn stuff one didn't know. Scotland against crooked lawyers is a site that has opened my eyes, and "Operation Ore".
May I recommend http://aplumberslogic.blogspot.com">
Judith and 45g, on this occasion I will admit, 'well 'ard' would have been the correct term.
Though up here it is not un heard of people saying 'proper hard'
Our thick bastards are thicker than average
And when I was at school admitting you knew what a proper noun was, was a sure fire way of getting
a) your head flushed down the bog. b) the shit kicked out of you.
c) both of the above.
W.W.
Shoring up Bush's battered reputation, running to support the hated EU, must all be worth a few millions in fees.
Everyone's got to make a living.
Tony's 'in' still with the governments of the world. His price can only go down. He'd better milk it now. If he's gone for ex-pat status he'll pay no tax. Cherie can start planning some serious shopping trips.
45govt
I've just realised that every post is by Stan the man. And I claim my 5p.
BTW how about Kinnock's brat for Watt's job?
janitor - nah, he's on bigger money than that, snout's been in the trough since he was in short trousers. He's passed go, collected god knows how much, AND has a get out of jail free card. Poxy little weasel.
I see today's on-line ToryGraph is floating Brown's nightmare again of Tone being 'el Presidente' of the EU. And the article ("Blair triangulates for President of Europe" by Charles Moore) mentions just how much extra we are paying per year - £2.7 billion - into the EU thanks to Tone's decisions (as to how to buy the presidency?).
What a **** Blair is.
45govt said...
Stan's rants will repay the employment of a slightly longer attention span, as often one will learn stuff one didn't know.
Maybe for the wibbler-mongs, slim pickings for most of us
ww said...
Not sure why so many people witter on about Stanislav, he always wittered on a bit to much for my liking.
Because they are morons who have never read a book or seen any comedy from the last 100 years
45govt, since you think Gordon's coming out is so vital, why not force him? Go over there and stick your gun up the cunt's arse, see what he makes of that!
Blair is a plasti Catholic - h converted to win favour with the EUSSR which is dominated by Catholic countries.
calling Blair a Catholic is like calling Judus a Roman.
besides Blair has done more to destroy Christianity in the UK than any before him, but then what did you expect from a communist!
blair isn't a communist. politically speaking he would be termed a neo con fascist.
Blair isn't anything he is an empty pot for rich men to piss in. He really doesn't believe in anything except his own right to be rich and boss the little people about.
Blair's history..he can't hurt us anymore. Brown on the other hand......that's where we need sonme action
Jimmy Carter, yuk, worst President in living memory. He's never forgiven the US electorate for his utter rejection at the polls.
As for Blair, oinking sounds in the distance suggest he'll be at the EU trough soon enough.
mitch, thanks for the correction.
so, to be precise,
blair is an empty piss pot neo con fascist.
You see, Guido, if you were a member of the true faith rather than a Fenian heretic, you would know that you can not approach God through good works.
"By ye faith ye are justified, and not of good works, lest any man should boast."
Try reading St. Paul some time.
oh so you don't need to do good things, just believe you're good?
I thought it said you will know them by what they do.
and also isn't it the devil's work to undermine another person's faith?
try understanding your bible sometime.
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