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Old January 21st, 2023 #1
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‘Pure Evil’ — Tony Blair Calls for Digital Vaccine Tracking at Davos Ahead of ‘New Slew of Injectables’


Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that global “digital infrastructures” are needed to monitor who is vaccinated as he predicted a “slew” of new vaccines to be introduced to the world in the next few years.

Appearing at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Iraq War architect and former Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair said that even though the Chinese coronavirus has subsided in the public mind, governments must continue to develop digital tracking systems for vaccines, including for unspecified jabs for the “world’s most dangerous diseases”.

“You need the data, you need to know who has been vaccinated and who hasn’t been. Some of the vaccines that come online will be multiple shots… so you’ve got to have a proper digital infrastructure and most countries don’t have that,” the former British prime minister said.

“I think there is a huge impetus for a national digital infrastructure, digitisation in healthcare is one of the great game changers, we should be helping countries develop a national digital infrastructure, which they will need with these new vaccines,”
he added, revealing that he has been lobbying the G20 nations to adopt this approach.

Mr Blair lamented that the coronavirus is largely seen as a “rearview mirror” issue in the halls of power, but he said that the focus could be kept up by relaying to politicians that “we are going to have a whole new slew of new vaccines, injectables that are going to deal with some of the worst diseases in the world that give us the opportunity to make big changes in the health of the world.”

“If you want the politicians to focus, they need to think, this is coming down the track soon, because if you tell them about a future pandemic, they will go ‘someone else’s problem’, but you tell them in the next few years you are going to have an opportunity to make a big difference in the health of your population that will focus them.”

Responding to Mr Blair’s comments during his GB News prime time news programme, Brexit’s Nigel Farage said: “He wants us to have multiple shots and for all of it to be digitised so the state knows exactly what our status is, pure evil!”


From the early days of the Wuhan virus crisis, Mr Blair injected himself into the mix, calling for a globalist wish list to be enacted to supposedly slow the spread of Covid. Just weeks after the first lockdown was put in place in Britain in 2020, Blair repurposed his think tank to focus on the pandemic, announcing that he has teams “embedded in governments around the world“. Blair’s think tank would go on to call for “dramatically increased technological surveillance,” saying it would be “a price worth paying” to confront the virus.

The former prime minister has also been a keen advocate for people to take the Chinese coronavirus vaccinations, even going so far as to say that those who refuse to take the jab are acting like “idiots”.

Despite the lower risk to children for the virus, The Tony Blair Institute also drew criticism for calling for vaccines to be forced onto youngsters, including those of nursery school age.


Nigel Farage certainly has this right - Blair is pure evil.

He didn't get stupid ,he was always stupid but had familiars like Mandelson,Campbell and Straw to make spells for him.
If he ever gets to suffer for his crimes, I want them to go down with him.

did incalculable damage to Britain; now he's trying to do the same to the rest of the world.

Blair is a clinically insane megalomaniac. Blair has been a bad seed from his college days. But unlike Shwab who knows himself to be evil, Blair believes himself to be a savior of the peepull.

his wife, Cherie, is as bad or worse.


Is this the same Blair who adamantly refused to disclose the vaccinations of his children on the grounds that their medical records were private?


Blair doesn't even realise just how hated he is by the vast majority of us Brits!

What a nest of vipers are slithering around at the WEF in Davos at the moment! Agree with Nigel Farage when he said that Tony Blair's remarks at Davos, calling for digital infrastructure, digitisation in healthcare, are "pure evil". Blair is the same man who called for that covid-19 poison to be forced onto children who were at almost zero risk of getting covid. Never forget that Blair said that people who refused the experimental mRNA inoculations (called vaccines) for the Covid-19 virus were "idiots". Well now we know who the real "idiots" are. The very best video on the atrocities surrounding the covid poison shots, is the following. WATCH IT to know the truth. Limited time only - full episode : Dr peter McCullough: covid Treatments, Part 1:-

https://www.youtube.com/wat...



‘Pure Evil’ — Blair Calls for Digital Vaccine Tracking at Davos Ahead of New Slew of ’Injectables’ 21 I 2023.


Do you honestly think Blair, his family and his elk have taken these these poison shots?


Why I think this 'War Criminal' is the WORST UK Prime Minister:

How much did he get 'under the table' for UK entering the Iraq war?
How much did he get 'under the table' for destroying the NHS pubic private partnership?
How much did he get 'under the table' for being Middle East Envoy? etc.
Stupid bastrad doesn't even have the wit to shut up and keep his head down.

Blair tops the list of 'Worst UK Prime Ministers'.
 
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‘Pure Evil’ — Tony Blair Calls for Digital Vaccine Tracking at Davos Ahead of ‘New Slew of Injectables’


Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that global “digital infrastructures” are needed to monitor who is vaccinated as he predicted a “slew” of new vaccines to be introduced to the world in the next few years.

Appearing at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Iraq War architect and former Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair said that even though the Chinese coronavirus has subsided in the public mind, governments must continue to develop digital tracking systems for vaccines, including for unspecified jabs for the “world’s most dangerous diseases”.

“You need the data, you need to know who has been vaccinated and who hasn’t been. Some of the vaccines that come online will be multiple shots… so you’ve got to have a proper digital infrastructure and most countries don’t have that,” the former British prime minister said.

“I think there is a huge impetus for a national digital infrastructure, digitisation in healthcare is one of the great game changers, we should be helping countries develop a national digital infrastructure, which they will need with these new vaccines,”
he added, revealing that he has been lobbying the G20 nations to adopt this approach.

Mr Blair lamented that the coronavirus is largely seen as a “rearview mirror” issue in the halls of power, but he said that the focus could be kept up by relaying to politicians that “we are going to have a whole new slew of new vaccines, injectables that are going to deal with some of the worst diseases in the world that give us the opportunity to make big changes in the health of the world.”

“If you want the politicians to focus, they need to think, this is coming down the track soon, because if you tell them about a future pandemic, they will go ‘someone else’s problem’, but you tell them in the next few years you are going to have an opportunity to make a big difference in the health of your population that will focus them.”

Responding to Mr Blair’s comments during his GB News prime time news programme, Brexit’s Nigel Farage said: “He wants us to have multiple shots and for all of it to be digitised so the state knows exactly what our status is, pure evil!”


From the early days of the Wuhan virus crisis, Mr Blair injected himself into the mix, calling for a globalist wish list to be enacted to supposedly slow the spread of Covid. Just weeks after the first lockdown was put in place in Britain in 2020, Blair repurposed his think tank to focus on the pandemic, announcing that he has teams “embedded in governments around the world“. Blair’s think tank would go on to call for “dramatically increased technological surveillance,” saying it would be “a price worth paying” to confront the virus.

The former prime minister has also been a keen advocate for people to take the Chinese coronavirus vaccinations, even going so far as to say that those who refuse to take the jab are acting like “idiots”.

Despite the lower risk to children for the virus, The Tony Blair Institute also drew criticism for calling for vaccines to be forced onto youngsters, including those of nursery school age.


Nigel Farage certainly has this right - Blair is pure evil.

He didn't get stupid ,he was always stupid but had familiars like Mandelson,Campbell and Straw to make spells for him.
If he ever gets to suffer for his crimes, I want them to go down with him.

did incalculable damage to Britain; now he's trying to do the same to the rest of the world.

Blair is a clinically insane megalomaniac. Blair has been a bad seed from his college days. But unlike Shwab who knows himself to be evil, Blair believes himself to be a savior of the peepull.

his wife, Cherie, is as bad or worse.


Is this the same Blair who adamantly refused to disclose the vaccinations of his children on the grounds that their medical records were private?


Blair doesn't even realise just how hated he is by the vast majority of us Brits!

What a nest of vipers are slithering around at the WEF in Davos at the moment! Agree with Nigel Farage when he said that Tony Blair's remarks at Davos, calling for digital infrastructure, digitisation in healthcare, are "pure evil". Blair is the same man who called for that covid-19 poison to be forced onto children who were at almost zero risk of getting covid. Never forget that Blair said that people who refused the experimental mRNA inoculations (called vaccines) for the Covid-19 virus were "idiots". Well now we know who the real "idiots" are. The very best video on the atrocities surrounding the covid poison shots, is the following. WATCH IT to know the truth. Limited time only - full episode : Dr peter McCullough: covid Treatments, Part 1:-

https://www.youtube.com/wat...



‘Pure Evil’ — Blair Calls for Digital Vaccine Tracking at Davos Ahead of New Slew of ’Injectables’ 21 I 2023.


Do you honestly think Blair, his family and his elk have taken these these poison shots?


Why I think this 'War Criminal' is the WORST UK Prime Minister:

How much did he get 'under the table' for UK entering the Iraq war?
How much did he get 'under the table' for destroying the NHS pubic private partnership?
How much did he get 'under the table' for being Middle East Envoy? etc.
Stupid bastrad doesn't even have the wit to shut up and keep his head down.

Blair tops the list of 'Worst UK Prime Ministers'.
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Old January 21st, 2023 #4
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I can't believe that scumbag Tony Blair is still breathing after everything he has done to the people of Iraq killing 1 million +.

Yet these Jihadies still go after innocent people who don't even know where Iraq is while Tony Blair etc walk around with quite limited security, He's the prize. If I was a Muslim extremist he would be on my list.
 
Old January 21st, 2023 #5
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I can't believe that scumbag Tony Blair is still breathing after everything he has done to the people of Iraq killing 1 million +.

Yet these Jihadies still go after innocent people who don't even know where Iraq is while Tony Blair etc walk around with quite limited security, He's the prize. If I was a Muslim extremist he would be on my list.
Blair wanted to be Dubya's toady/bum chum and both were shabbos goy puppets of the JWO. My take.
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Old January 23rd, 2023 #6
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Globalist Johnson's list:

poor Brexit,
climate change,
net zero,
Nothing done about mass migration and the small boats,
Covid scam and resulting spiralling inflation,
sent a billion every fortnight to ukraine.

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News about Johnsons £800,000 Loan
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Who is Richard Sharp? BBC chairman who ‘helped Boris Johnson secure £800,000 loan’
Who is Richard Sharp? BBC chairman who ‘helped Boris Johnson secure £800,000 loan’

Former banker worked for more than 30 years in the financial sector, including a …

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BBC to investigate chairman Richard Sharp over role in Boris Johnson loan
BBC to investigate chairman Richard Sharp over role in Boris Johnson loan
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Boris Johnson attacks 'complete nonsense' over claims BBC chairman helped him secure £800k loan
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Investigation launched into appointment process of BBC chairman after Boris Johnson loan claim
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BBC in crisis as chairman 'helped arrange guarantee on £800,000 loan to Boris Johnson'
BBC in crisis as chairman 'helped arrange guarantee on £800,000 loan to Boris Johnson'
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How do you know a politician lies?

Their lips move.
 
Old January 29th, 2023 #7
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Boris Johnson tops list of UK MPs with biggest outside earnings


The former UK prime minister has earned £2.3 million (€2.6 mil) since leaving office, making him the highest-earning MP in the past year. BRITISH MPS HAVE declared £8 million (€9.1 million) in earnings on top of their parliamentary salaries, with Boris Johnson accounting for more than a quarter of the total.


The former UK prime minister earned £2.3 million ( €2.6 million) in the past 12 months, on top of the £84,000 salary he receives as an MP. Almost all of that money has come in since Johnson left Downing Street in September, and includes £1.8 million in speaking fees and £510,000 for his upcoming memoirs, declared on Thursday.





News of the advance for Johnson’s memoirs came as it emerged that the UK taxpayer could end up spending more than £222,000 on legal fees defending the former prime minister from a Commons inquiry into whether he misled Parliament over ‘Partygate.’


Johnson’s total outside earnings make him the highest-paid MP over the past year, far outstripping his predecessor Theresa May, who declared £965,000 in speaking fees. Most of May’s earnings are used to fund her private office and charitable work, with the former prime minister drawing an annual salary of £85,000 in addition to her MP’s pay.


In total, MPs have declared £8.07 million in outside earnings in the past year, including payments for second jobs, speeches, TV appearances and books. Just three MPs account for half of declared outside earnings: Johnson, May and former attorney general Geoffrey Cox, who earned £880,290 from his legal work. Cox was criticised in 2021 after it emerged he had used a proxy to vote in Parliament while working on a corruption inquiry in the British Virgin Islands.


Other high earners include Covid Hoaxer Matt Hancock, who has declared £442,697 over the past year, including £320,000 from appearing on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!


Nine of the top 10 earners were Conservative MPs, with David Lammy the only Labour MP in the top 10, declaring £108,259. This included £48,908 in speaking fees and £53,500 for presenting shows on LBC.


Some 39 MPs were paid more than the median UK salary of £31,000 in outside earnings alone, although 409 declared no outside earnings at all.




Boris Johnson tops list of UK MPs with biggest outside earnings
29 I 2023.



When Boris Johnson was prime minister, he was offered a loan of up to £800,000 to top up his income. We found this out last week, when details of the loan, and allegations the BBC's chairman, Richard Sharp, was involved in arranging it, surfaced following a report by the Sunday Times.

Why would Boris Johnson need an £800,000 loan? - BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64392524.amp


How much more did Johnson get 'under the table' that we haven't and won't hear about? - Covid, Ukraine, migrant boats, etc.!
 
Old January 30th, 2023 #8
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Default Boris Johnson Claims Vladimir Putin Threatened to Eliminate Him in a Missile Attack

Russia President Vladimir Putin threatened to personally target Boris Johnson with a missile attack in the lead up to Russian forces marching into Ukraine, the former UK prime minister has claimed.


Johnson said the comment was made after he warned the war would be an “utter catastrophe” during a “very long” call with Putin in February 2022, according to a new BBC documentary set for broadcast Monday. Johnson claims in the interview he and other Western leaders had been hurrying to Kyiv to show support for Ukraine and try to deter a Russian attack. “He sort of threatened me at one point and said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would only take a minute’, or something like that,” Johnson quoted Putin as saying. He went on to say “But I think from the very relaxed tone that he [Putin] was taking, the sort of air of detachment that he seemed to have, he was just playing along with my attempts to get him to negotiate.”


Prior to the invasion, Johnson says he was at pains to tell Putin there was no imminent prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, while warning him any invasion would mean “more NATO, not less NATO” on Russia’s borders. “He said, ‘Boris, you say that Ukraine is not going to join NATO any time soon. “‘What is any time soon?’ And I said, ‘well it’s not going to join NATO for the foreseeable future. You know that perfectly well’.” The BBC documentary charts the growing divide between the Russian leader and the West in the years before the invasion of Ukraine, AFP reports.


No reference to the alleged exchange between Johnson and Putin appeared in accounts of the call given by either Downing Street or the Kremlin, the BBC makes clear.


If "this passage was perceived in this way," Peskov continued, then, in his words, "a very awkward situation" arises.

Peskov was also asked if the Kremlin would somehow react to the release of the documentary "Putin against the West" by the British television and radio corporation "BBC", in which the corresponding words of Johnson were heard.

"We can't react to the release of films on the BBC, we'll see what they say," the president's press secretary replied.

At the same time, he noted: "If the rest of the film will be in the same vein (like Johnson's statements - IF) , we do not advise you to waste your time."



According to the dimmer than a broken light bulb German Foreign Minister Annalena Berback Germany is at war with Russia, do remember how the last time the Germans attempted that turned out?


Doubt Putin thought Boris was that important in the scheme of things. Boris just having a Biden moment. Pinocchio comes to mind . What a desperate cry for attention - must be hard to no longer be the centre of attention.



Boris Johnson Claims Vladimir Putin Threatened to Eliminate Him in a Missile Attack 30 I 2023.


Now you can understand why in Britain there's an intense political correct War on Comedy. Your not allowed to think or evaluate anymore.
 
Old February 12th, 2023 #9
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'Pure Evil' -- Tony Blair Calls for Digital Vaccine Tracking at Davos

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Old February 12th, 2023 #10
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BBC boss's position 'increasingly untenable' after Boris Johnson loan row. Under-fire BBC Chairman Richard Sharp was accused by MPs of making 'significant errors of judgement' by acting as a go-between for a loan guarantee for ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson



BBC chief Richard Sharp's position is “increasingly untenable” after a scathing report by cross-party MPs into his role in facilitating a loan guarantee for Boris Johnson. The under-fire Chairman was accused of making “significant errors of judgement” by acting as a go-between when the ex-Prime Minister found himself in financial difficulty in 2020. Mr Sharp has admitted to introducing Canadian millionaire Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson's - to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case. He did not arrange the loan of up to £800,000.

But he was criticised by MPs for failing to declare his role in the "cash for Boris" row when he applying for the job of BBC chairman - which Mr Johnson supported.

In a damning report, the Commons Culture Committee said his actions “constitute a breach of the standards expected of individuals” applying for prominent public appointments - and risked undermining confidence in the BBC.

A spokesman for Mr Sharp said he "regrets" not telling MPs about his involvement with Mr Blyth and apologises". He has ordered an internal BBC review over potential conflicts of interests since he joined the corporation.

Boris Johnson previously branded the row "a load of complete nonsense" and said Mr Sharp knew nothing about his finances, adding: "I can tell you that for 100% ding dang sure."

But Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy told Sky's Ridge on Sunday: “It is a really serious development and it makes Richard Sharp’s position increasingly untenable." She added: "Increasingly, the circumstances around the relationship between the Conservative Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and Richard Sharp is looking more and more murky and his position is becoming increasingly untenable as a result."

SNP MP John Nicolson, who sits on the Commons committee, said Mr Sharp's position is now "extremely difficult" and the situation was "all a bit banana republic". He told BBC: "He has lost the trust of the BBC staff, that's very clear, I've been deluged with messages from BBC staff saying they don't see how he can head up the BBC any more."


Tory minister Andrew Mitchell said the issue was “now a matter for the BBC" - but said “we shouldn’t rush to judgement” when quizzed on Mr Sharp’s position. "We need to be fair to all parties in this, including Richard Sharp," he said. "The BBC is not a silent part of all of this, the board of the BBC will need to consider what he's said and reach their own conclusions. "I think the Government will react appropriately to that."

Tory ex-Culture minister Lord Vaizey defended Mr Sharp, saying: "You can acknowledge it is a blunder without saying it is hanging offence."

A spokesman for Mr Sharp said he "appreciates that there was information that the committee felt that it should have been made aware of in his pre-appointment hearing". "He regrets this and apologises," the spokesman said. "It was in seeking at the time to ensure that the rules were followed, and in the belief that this had been achieved, that Mr Sharp acted in good faith in the way he did." "At that meeting, and subsequently, it was not suggested by the Cabinet Office that the act of connecting Mr Blyth with Mr Case was something that should be declared, and it was explicitly agreed that by not being party to the matter going forward he would be excluded from any conflict."

The spokesman said Mr Sharp "would like to apologise again to the BBC's brilliant staff given the distraction it has caused".




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Old February 27th, 2023 #11
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No Prime Minister in modern times has led Britain into as many wars as Tony Blair. In seven years in office he has committed soldiers to action in Kosovo, in Operation Desert Fox against Iraq, in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan -- and, most controversially, in the final battle with Saddam Hussein in 2003. It has been a dramatic course of action for a man who, until he won the 1997 General Election, showed only a rudimentary understanding of the workings of foreign policy. Combining page-turning narrative and revelation with an analysis of the philosophy underlying his adventures abroad, BLAIR'S WARS shows how this government has sought to be at the forefront of a new and turbulent world order. Putting the reader into the 'smoke-filled rooms' of Whitehall and Washington where the real decision-making takes place, John Kampfner draws on his unparalleled contacts within and outside government to provide a compelling account of the tensions, rivalries, deal-making and back-stabbing that have accompanied inexorable acquisition of foreign-policy control.


Third of British people want to see Tony Blair tried as a war criminal...
The general has accused Mr Blair of committing a “crime of aggression” by invading Iraq in 2003 to overthrow its leader Saddam Hussein. He wanted to prosecute Mr Blair along with former Foreign...
 
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Shameless Blair lectures the world on military strategy, with no word of the deceit he engineered for an illegal assault on Iraq




Former British PM Tony Blair sees himself as a colossus on the world stage – climate hero, peace maker and thinker for our times – seemingly unaware that many people view him as a war criminal who deserves to be put on trial.



Since he left high office in 2007, there really is no subject in the world on which Tony Blair is reluctant to express an opinion on, buoyed by an unsinkable self-belief and an apparently total absence of self-awareness.


He’s convinced that a huge appetite exists for his latest musings, that French President Emmanuel Macron is desperate for his help in tackling the radical Islamist problems of the Sahel, that US President Joe Biden lies awake at night asking himself, ‘What would Tony do?’ and that the British public has forgotten he took the country into a catastrophic war against Iraq that both the United Nations and even his own government inquiry determined was illegal.


His acquiescence to US demands for an attack on Saddam Hussein earned Blair the US Medal of Freedom from George Bush and 20 years of opprobrium from the British public, which has only increased as the years have passed on par with his own immense personal wealth. A poll in 2017 found a third of the British public would like to see Blair put on trial as a war criminal.


But that’s not something the ex-PM likes to dwell upon. So his speech to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), almost 20 years to the day since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, made no mention of what followed those unforgettable events: dodgy dossiers, suggestions of bunkers full of weapons of mass destruction or of the purposeful lying to the British people.


Rather than learn any lessons from recent history, like when to wage war, Blair’s appetite is clearly undiminished, as he moaned, “Western societies and their political leaders have become quite understandably, deeply averse to casualties amongst our Armed Forces.” This, in his view, had become, “an overwhelming political constraint to any commitment to Western boots on the ground, except for Special Forces.”
It’s all Biden’s fault apparently. Blair said, “It is clear now – if it wasn't before – that America has decided that for the foreseeable future, it has a very limited appetite for military engagement.”


Well, yes, Mr. Former Prime Minister, it is true that the Americans have made no secret of the fact that they are sick of fighting ‘forever wars’. But us Brits also do not like to see the lives of young men and women who have signed up to serve their country sacrificed at the altar of political self-aggrandisement. We are now a little less gullible, a little less obliging when it comes to fighting unwinnable, neverending battles and somewhat more suspicious of our glory-seeking political leaders. And that’s all largely down to one person. You.


It’s strange Blair doesn’t acknowledge this. One thing’s certain, he knows his geopolitics; hell, he even has his own eponymous ‘global institute’ packed with researchers, academics and leading experts to tell him what to think and say about the key issues of our time. With one exception. Do. Not. Mention. Iraq.


The exclusion of that country’s name from the conversation is obvious. In looking forward, Blair said that Europe – insisting “for these purposes Britain is part of Europe like it or not” – faced an immediate challenge from the destabilisation of the Sahel and was “already facing the fallout from Libya, Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East.” Err, by ‘elsewhere in the Middle East’ could Blair possibly mean Iraq? Probably, but let’s not risk spoiling a pleasant chat.


And in the face of that perceived threat, which in the Sahel until now has been largely handled by France, Blair asked, “How do Europe and NATO develop the capability to act when America is unwilling?”


Blair clearly sees military action as an imperative – I’m not sure everyone else agrees – but he also thinks the capacity of Western policymakers to think strategically needs to be reinvigorated. “For me, one of the most alarming developments of recent times has been the sense the West lacks the capacity to formulate strategy,” he said. “That its short term political imperatives have squeezed the space for long term thinking.
It is this sense more than anything else which gives our allies anxiety and our opponents a belief our time is over.”



Now the picture is starting to become clearer. While Western governments are distracted from war by the need to focus on rebuilding economies, fighting worldwide health crises and seemingly perpetual election cycles which inhibit their ability to think long-term, they need big thinkers, top-shelf statesmen and global heavy hitters to work out how to bomb the citizens of far-off places into oblivion through drone strikes, how to convince a sceptical public that it’s a good idea to send servicemen and women to their deaths and – most importantly of all – how to create the right PR buzz around those decisions, so that everyone feels comfortable about falling into line. Those Western governments need men just like Tony Blair. He’s free most afternoons, if you’d like to schedule a Zoom call. Just don’t mention the war (on Iraq).



By any and all standards of international criminal law, this man is beyond doubt a war criminal and mass killers. He should have been brought to trial 20 years ago, and sentenced to a whole life tariff. Instead, he has gone to make his many millions, and continues to posture as a fixer, a world statesman .


All of our leaders are murdering criminals. Now they are murdering criminals that want to enslave us with medical Tyranny.



Shameless Blair lectures the world on military strategy, with no word of the deceit he engineered for an illegal assault on Iraq 25 IV 2023.

Professor Gideon Polya, an expert in thanatology (the scientific study of the cause of death) and author of Body Count: Global avoidable mortality since 1950, has estimated that the absolute Iraqi death toll of the war is in excess of 2.7 million. This figure encompasses 1.5 million who died as a result of violence and 1.2 million who died due to war-induced deprivation. The latter includes under -5 infant deaths of 0.6 million.


"An Iraqi Holocaust: 2.7 million Iraqi Dead from Violence Or War imposed Deprivation"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41378.htm




If you didn't know that Blair was big time bribed for supporting and aiding baby Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. with UK forces your naive.

You own the Media, now just an advertising medium, and that's how the world is run.
 
Old May 23rd, 2023 #13
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The Blair rich project: Tony Blair made millions in some of the shadiest corners of the world. But he's been outdone by son Euan - who is now worth £70m. And, from a football agent to two legal eagles, the rest of the clan aren't doing too badly either

•Was announced this week that Euan's firm has been valued at £147 million

•Nicky is a is a football agent specialising in the South American market

•Cherie Blair is a leading human rights barrister and part-time judge

•The Blair's only daughter Kathryn is a barrister, like her parents


Cynics might describe it as the Blair Rich Project and it has clearly achieved its aim. Indeed when totting up the contents of the family coffers one is reminded of what two of New Labour's principal image shapers had to say about the lack of friction between Tony Blair's political vision and the accumulation of wealth. His close friend and one-time guru Peter Mandelson famously boasted: 'I am intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes.'

And No 10 spin-doctor Lance Price once observed of Mr Blair: 'He has always wanted the best for his family and there was never any doubt that he had the capacity to go on and run 'Tony Blair' as a business, which is effectively what he is doing.' Never any doubt. But who could have predicted the former prime minister's eldest son Euan would, before the age of 40, overtake his father in the matter of personal wealth creation? And by so doing push the Blair dynasty's cumulative fortune to well past the £100 million mark.


Cynics might describe it as the Blair Rich Project and it has clearly achieved its aim.

Little more than 20 years have passed since 16-year-old Euan Blair was found by police 'drunk and insensible' and vomiting in Leicester Square after celebrating the completion of his GCSE exams a little too hard. Having initially given a false name and address, Master Blair was slung in the cells. The episode made headlines around the world and though amusing to all — his father had been sounding off about hooligan behaviour only days earlier — it was tough on the teenager. Many of us have drunk too much as feckless teenagers.

A rite of passage.

But only Euan Blair has been taken home to Downing Street by Special Branch to face the music, and then have the humiliation of Alastair Campbell reading a prepared statement of apology. However, Euan learned his lesson and then some, and has knuckled down ever since. This week it was announced his education start-up Multiverse, which he co-founded in 2016 as a vehicle to aid young people find apprenticeships, had been valued at £147 million. Which means that at just 37, Multiverse chief executive Euan Blair's 47% stake is worth almost £70 million. Not bad for a former schoolboy drunk in the gutter. Yet his triumph is just the latest example of how, since his father left office in 2007, the Blairs have been raking it in. And it has not always been without controversy . . .

Tony Blair

When he stepped down in 2007 Mr Blair received a severance package from the state, then worth some £300,000. This included a pension of almost £64,000 a year, a further £84,000 to run his office, as well as a car, a police driver and 24-hour armed protection. But it would look like small change once he began to work with and for some of the wealthiest companies, countries and individuals in the world. As an expert in leadership and the workings of democracy, it was to the developing world, where that kind of advice was needed, that Mr Blair first turned.


At one time Mr Blair was also the world's highest-paid public speaker, charging up to £300,000 per engagement, with a two-year waiting list for bookings.


The problem for many critics is the extent to which he has benefited personally from the coffers of some corrupt states and whether the Blair magic achieved significant changes beyond window dressing. Millions of pounds in donations poured in to the Tony Blair Faith Foundation through which he hoped to 'counter religious conflict and extremism in order to promote open-minded and stable societies'. Much of which came from Middle Eastern benefactors. Tony Blair Associates (TBA) was established in 2008 as an umbrella organisation for his global political consultancy work.


By 2010 it was reported that he was employing 130 people with a turnover and salary bill of tens of millions of pounds. The set-up — which had a world HQ in Mayfair, London — had its detractors. In 2015, Nick Kochan a co-author of the book Blair Inc: The Man Behind The Mask wrote: 'Off-the-shelf companies called Windrush Ventures and Firerush Ventures . . . are at the centre of the corporate spider's web over which Blair presides. 'Blair's fees, and indeed all his earnings are protected by complex tax structures, nothing illegal of course, but constructed by the top accountants KPMG and are inevitably complex and opaque.' TBA's reported first client was the small and relatively democratic Gulf state of Kuwait. In 2009, Mr Blair received £1 million for advising its leaders on 'political and economic trends and governmental reform'.

Further Gulf work came Mr Blair's way when, in 2013, his organisation acted as a go-between for the British Government and the United Arab Emirates which was threatening to pull the plug on a multi-billion-pound arms deal. The following year Mr Blair became an adviser to the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who had come to power in a military coup in 2013. This arrangement was also funded by the UAE. President Sisi, it is fair to say, is no Mother Teresa. By then questions were being asked about a conflict of interest between Mr Blair's business dealings in the region and his role, since 2007, as Middle East peace envoy for the Quartet [countries / organisations involved in mediating the Israeli / Palestinian peace process: the UN, the EU, Russia and the U.S.]. The director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding claimed: 'There is no clear division between Blair's diplomatic dealings and business dealings in the Middle East.' This was denied by Mr Blair.

He stepped down from his envoy role in 2015. The following year it was revealed that while in post Mr Blair had helped a Saudi oil firm break into the Chinese market. In 2010, TBA had been paid £41,000 a month plus 2% commission by PetroSaudi. Documents showed that TBA had been offered access to the Saudi king and in return invited the oil firm to have lunch with a UK government minister. A Blair spokesman denied that the deal had anything to do with his envoy role. Other commissions from other countries with questionable human rights or corruption records — such as an alleged £8 million a year to advise the president of Kazakhstan whose forces had just killed a number of street protesters — drew similar flak. Blair admitted there were 'real challenges' still but 'progress' had been made.

Mr Blair was on less controversial but equally lucrative ground on the global speaking and corporate advice circuit. In January 2008, he became an adviser on international politics and climate change to Zurich Financial Services and a senior adviser at JP Morgan Chase, receiving £2.5 million and £500,000 per year respectively. At one time he was also the world's highest-paid public speaker, charging up to £300,000 per engagement, with a two-year waiting list for bookings. In 2012 a Blair spokesman said: 'These commercial interests provide important funding for his charitable work.' TBA was wound up in 2016.

Mr Blair confirmed that from then on he would retain 'a small number of personal consultancies for my income, but 80% of my time will be pro bono on the not-for-profit side.' TBA has been replaced by the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change. Latest records show that it had a turnover in 2019 of $45 million (about £33 million) with $23 million (£16.5 million) being spent on staff salary packages.

In 2014, the former Labour leader said his personal worth was less than £20 million. Others have claimed it is nearer £50 million.

Cherie Blair

The driving force behind the Blair property portfolio has always been Cherie Blair, a leading human rights barrister and part-time judge. No doubt her own working-class upbringing in Merseyside — her father left the family when she was five — informed her attitude that London property was a gilt-edged form of investment through which she and Tony could give their children a head start in adult life. The Blairs sold their handsome townhouse in Richmond Crescent, North London, for £615,000, shortly after moving into Downing Street in 1997, but maintained their modest constituency home in Trimdon Colliery, County Durham, (bought for £30,000 in 1983) until 2010 when it was sold for £275,000.


The driving force behind the Blair property portfolio has always been Cherie Blair, a leading human rights barrister and part-time judge.


By then, of course, their lifestyles and fortunes had changed beyond compare. Since 2011, Mrs Blair has led Omnia Strategy, a firm specialising 'in bespoke dispute resolution and prevention globally' which aims to achieves its clients' objectives 'no matter the size, complexity or nature of the challenge'. The current accounts show it has assets of more than £4 million. Her alternative career, however, as a property investor, began inauspiciously with the 'Cheriegate' controversy in 2002 when she bought two flats in Bristol. She denied allegations that she had benefited from a discount negotiated by convicted conman Peter Foster, then boyfriend of her stylist Carole Caplin.

The Blairs bought the house which remains their main London home in 2004, when Mr Blair was still in office. The five-storey Grade II Georgian townhouse in Connaught Square near Hyde Park was purchased for £3.65 million, but is now thought to be worth more than £8 million. A mews house at the back of the main property was bought on advice from their security services for £800,000 in 2007. The huge main mortgage was initially covered by Mrs Blair's legal income while for other outgoings the family struggled along on her husband's prime ministerial salary.

That would change, of course. On Mr Blair leaving office and plunging into private sector employment they purchased South Pavilion, a Grade I-listed stately home in Buckinghamshire, for £4 million in 2008. The actor Sir John Gielgud had been a previous owner of the property and the gardens were designed by Capability Brown. In 2010 it was reported that the Blairs had spent £250,000 on period furniture and employed a staff of 20 at the property, which is now thought to be worth more than £10 million.

Kathryn & Leo

The Blair's only daughter Kathryn is a barrister, like her parents. Now aged 31, she owns two London houses. The first, worth some £1.4 million, was bought in 2013, reportedly under her mother's name before the ownership was transferred to her alone. In 2018, Kathryn paid £2.4 million for a second property in central London. She also has a property interest in Buckinghamshire.


The Blair's only daughter Kathryn is a barrister, like her parents. Now aged 31, she owns two London houses.

In 2013 the Blairs bought a four-bedroom house near their stately home for £600,000. The purchase did not require a mortgage, Land Registry records suggest. It was soon advertised for rent for £2,500 a month. The names on the initial deed of ownership were that of Cherie and her husband's sister Sarah. By 2019 they had been replaced by those of Kathryn and her youngest brother, Leo, now 20.

Nicky

Nicky, the Blair's middle son, is a football agent specialising in the South American market — but working out of his mother's offices in Central London. And Companies House records show that Cherie is a co-director of Nicky's Magnitude sports agency. Mother and son have also collaborated in the property market. In 2012 Nicky and Cherie bought a Georgian townhouse in London for £1.35 million cash, sold six years later with a £400,000 profit. In 2018 Nicky and his wife Alexandra paid £2.75 million for a home in North London.


Nicky, the Blair's middle son, is a football agent specialising in the South American market — but working out of his mother's offices in central London.



Euan

Beside his startling start-up success reported this week Euan Blair, who had worked at the investment bank Morgan Stanley, has also been busy in the property market. Again his mother has acted as a business partner. In 2019, Cherie was listed as joint owner with Euan of his six-bedroom family home in a fashionable area of the capital, which was bought in 2013 for £3.6 million. It backed on to one of his sister's houses.


This week it was announced Euan Blair's education start-up Multiverse, which he co-founded in 2016 as a vehicle to aid young people find apprenticeships, had been valued at £147 million. Pictured: Blair with his firm's co-founder, Sophie Adelman.


This is but a fraction of their joint bricks and mortar portfolio. Euan and Cherie are directors and joint owners of Oldbury Residential Limited, which today — Land Registry records show — owns 31 flats and houses in Greater Manchester (ten in one street alone) bought for more than £2.4 million, to be rented out on the student market. This investments have been highly lucrative. In 2018 Oldbury reported cumulative profits of £400,000 over the previous two years. Tony Blair may have made the financial running, but son Euan is likely to become the richest Blair of them all.


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David Cameron? He's a spiv. John Major? Grander than Mrs T. And Maggie herself? Socially insecure! In the final part of our series, society diarist KENNETH ROSE takes an ink-tipped stiletto to the entire political class.



I am deeply disturbed by the conduct of David Cameron, the PM, who has declared a planning free-for-all in the construction industry, apparently in return for huge donations to the Conservative Party. He is not a true Tory

Newspaper diarist Kenneth Rose kept many of his most sensational stories for his private journals — now published following his death in 2014.


Over the past days, in our exclusive serialisation, they have provided a sparkling insight into members of the Royal Family.


Today, in our final extract, he reveals the waspish asides and barbed comments of key political figures . . .


July 31, 1979

Lunch with [former PM] Harold Wilson at the Travellers Club. He is smart and spry in a well-cut, very dark brown suit, with starched cuffs and elaborate cufflinks.

Some talk of anti-Semitism, especially [Labour politician] Ernest Bevin’s. Wilson has heard of the relish with which Bevin, on becoming Minister of Labour and National Service in 1940, boasted that he would call up all the East End Jews.

‘Real working-class anti-Semitism’, says Wilson.

On Denis Healey, Wilson says: ‘Once a man has been a Communist, his mind runs on intellectual tramlines.’


August 1

I ask [lawyer and political adviser] Arnold Goodman whether Harold Wilson ever tried to become head of an Oxford or Cambridge college. Arnold says that Wilson would have liked it, but only a grand one, like Trinity, Cambridge.


April 14, 1982

George Morpeth [Earl of Carlisle] tells me that when Dorothy Macmillan, tiring of [her affair] with Bob Boothby, returned to [PM] Harold Macmillan, there was no emotional reconciliation or apology. The doorbell rang, and there she was with her suitcase. She said: ‘Are there any letters?’


December 6, 1983

Lunch with Harold Macmillan at Birch Grove. For a man approaching his 90th year, he looks in splendid shape. During the Falklands campaign, the old war horse felt the smoke of battle in his nostrils again when he called on Mrs Thatcher and was asked for his advice. ‘You see, nobody at No 10 had ever fought a war before. So I told her how to run it, with a small War Cabinet, and she wrote down everything I said in a small notebook.’

[Michael] Heseltine is one of the few members of the Thatcher Government for whom he has respect. Norman Tebbit is another. On Mrs Thatcher: ‘I worked for a united country. She is narrow and hard, a middle-class megalomaniac.’


December 15

When gold sovereigns were changed to paper money, Macmillan commented:
‘One never then knew what to give one’s [gun] loader.’


September 23, 1985

Ted Heath most affable at a dinner in Tite Street. I tell him how impressed I was by Nixon when we met. Ted agrees and says it was absurd for him to be disgraced over Watergate. When Ted was in China soon afterwards, [Premier] Zhou Enlai said to him: ‘This is ridiculous isn’t it? After all, we all tap our opponents’ telephones.’


January 11, 1986

Macmillan on the House of Lords: ‘Such a wonderful place for an old man: you cannot walk 20 yards without finding a bar and a lavatory.’


April 17

Harold Wilson tells me that he has long appreciated Mrs Thatcher’s personal kindness to him. During his serious illness a few years ago, she was the first to send him flowers. She also offered him a car and driver.


March 23, 1982

Norman St John-Stevas [Tory politician] would passionately like the Commons Speakership after George Thomas. I tell him how discreet he would have to be. He replies: ‘There are the weekends.’


June 9

John Grigg [historian] tells me that Michael Foot [Labour leader] is now absolutely besotted with admiration for Margaret Thatcher’s handling of the Falklands crisis and the assault on the Argentine forces.


June 22

[High commissioner to India] Robert Wade-Gery tells me how Mrs Thatcher continues to use senior people, especially those at the Foreign Office, as doormats. I ask Robert why they don’t stand up to her. He replies: ‘Because she’s a woman.’


October 12

Nico Henderson [ambassador to the U.S.] was at the PM’s dinner at No 10 last night for the Falklands operation. At the end of the meal, Margaret Thatcher said: ‘Shall we join the ladies?’


March 12, 1983

When the Duke of Devonshire joined the SDP, the Labour MP Eric Varley said: ‘He will bring to the party that common touch which [SDP leader] Roy Jenkins lacks.’


June 9, 1982:

John Grigg [historian] tells me that Michael Foot [Labour leader] is now absolutely besotted with admiration for Margaret Thatcher’s handling of the Falklands crisis and the assault on the Argentine forces


I hear that John Major, despite professing to be the simple man, has a yearning for grandeur




November 13


[Tory Environment Minister] William Waldegrave tells me of a meeting at No 10 on local government reform, at which Mrs Thatcher, on being told that the whole of the Tory Establishment would be against her, replied: ‘Good!’


June 11, 1985

I hear that Mrs Tebbit, wife of the Industry Minister, still paralysed after the Brighton Grand Hotel bomb outrage, is being helped with her considerable medical expenses by both the PM and the Duke of Westminster.


August 17


John King [chairman of British Airways] tells me: ‘The Prime Minister relies too much on Denis, who was never more than the director of a small company. So he read the balance sheet of Rolls-Royce, and without wider knowledge said that the company was bust. It wasn’t.’


November 19, 1986


[Tory MP] Julian Amery tells me that when Ian Harvey had to resign as Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office after being found with a Guardsman under the bushes in St James’s Park, Harold Macmillan could scarcely understand his foolishness. ‘Why didn’t he put the Guardsman into his official car and drive him home?’

A Private Secretary said: ‘But Prime Minister, Under-Secretaries do not have official cars.’

A few days later, there came an edict from No 10. In future, Under-Secretaries were to have official cars.


July 27, 1988

Julian Amery tells me that during a well-contested election at Preston North in October 1964, he remembered that there was a French Carmelite nunnery in the constituency. So he called on the Mother Superior, and so charmed her with French and flattery that she agreed to allow the nuns to vote.

‘Which way will they vote?’ he tactfully inquired. ‘There are 15 nuns,’ replied the Mother Superior. ‘Fourteen of them are Conservatives. The 15th will be doing penance that day.’

Julian scraped in by 14 votes —20,566 to 20,552.


January 18, 1989

To the Royal Fine Art Commission, where the Prime Minister introduces a report on the state of London. I ask [Mrs Thatcher] what restoration is taking place at Marlborough House.

This provokes her into some splendidly indiscreet remarks about its tenants, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and indeed about the Commonwealth itself. She says: ‘Why should we spend all that money restoring the building for them?’

I suggest that Marlborough House should become the home of the Prince of Wales. She likes the idea. She adds that it was she who suggested that the Prince should establish his offices in St James’s Palace to get him away from Kensington Palace: not good to live over the shop.


May 2

Dine with [Tory MP and diarist] Alan Clark at the Beefsteak. He is most entertaining on the fear inspired by the PM among her ministers. She conveys her disapproval in a minute to the minister’s Private Secretary.

The usual victim is [Foreign Secretary] Geoffrey Howe. This would not matter very much except that the rebuke is copied to the Private Secretaries of any other department that may have an interest in the matter. So all Whitehall knows.


December 27

[BBC chairman] Dukie Hussey tells me that when Mrs Thatcher visited Salzburg, she was taken to the much-praised production of Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte. At the end of the first act, she said how outraged she was by ‘this most immoral opera’.


Macmillan: Maggie is a megalomaniac



August 27, 1990

William Waldegrave tells me that when someone expressed surprise to Harold Macmillan that the Iranians had done surprisingly well in the long war against Iraq, he replied: ‘Of course they did well. They shot all their generals before they began.’


1 November


Peter Carrington says that when Ted Heath became PM, he once said to Peter: ‘Of course, you live near my house now,’ i.e. Chequers.

Peter replied: ‘No, Ted. You lodge temporarily near my house.’


September 27, 1991

Dinner party for Jim and Audrey Callaghan. Jim tells me that, walking out of Westminster Abbey after the memorial service for Elizabeth Home [wife of former PM Alec Douglas-Home], he found himself next to Ted Heath. It was the morning Mrs Thatcher had resigned — and Ted turned to Jim and said: ‘I had better compose my features so the photographers will not record my true feelings.’


April 18, 1992


I have a talk with [Tory politician] Anthony Nutting. He describes trying to brief Winston Churchill on the [first] ‘cod war’ with Iceland. But the PM was not interested. Anthony swears that he could hear the BBC Light Programme coming out of the old man’s hearing aid.


April 22, 1991

There has always been something socially insecure about Mrs T. When [Tory political hostess] Rosemary Wolff was staying with the Carringtons one weekend, the Thatchers came over from Chequers to dine.

The other women wore simple shirts and long skirts; Mrs T. came dressed as for a State Banquet at the Palace. What a class-conscious nation we are.

Rosemary also tells me that when Ted Heath visited grand houses, they treated him like an RAF officer billeted on them during the war.


August 28

I hear that when Charles de Gaulle was succeeded as President of France by Pompidou, he said: ‘It’s like being cuckolded by one’s chauffeur.’


Mrs Thatcher never minded what sort of plane she had; but if it went too fast, she would certainly see that it reduced its cruising speed in order to save petrol



May 30, 1992


I hear that John Major, despite professing to be the simple man, has a yearning for grandeur.

He has police outriders, which Mrs Thatcher never had. And he is now to get a powerful official plane.

Mrs Thatcher never minded what sort of plane she had; but if it went too fast, she would certainly see that it reduced its cruising speed in order to save petrol.


November 15, 1993

William Waldegrave tells me that when he was Ted Heath’s Political Secretary, he would be rung up out of the blue by peppery colonels who would say [for instance]: ‘What we want as Prime Minister is not an old queer like Heath, but a fine upstanding gentleman like Jeremy Thorpe.’ At that very moment, William had on his desk the Home Office files on Jeremy’s private life.


June 21, 1995


[Former Foreign Secretary] Peter Carrington tells me the story of Mrs Thatcher who, when she met Chairman Mao, asked him out of politeness an initial question about what he thought of the world outlook.

He spoke without interruption for 20 minutes. Mrs T. then interrupted him with a rap of her ring on the table.

Chairman Mao said: ‘I have not finished,’ and continued for another 20 minutes. In the midst of the second instalment Peter Carrington passed her a note: ‘Talking too much, as usual, Margaret.’


November 7, 1996

Tony Lambton [Earl of Durham, former Tory MP] tells me the PM offered James Goldsmith a peerage if he would abandon his Referendum campaign before the next General Election. ‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘if it’s a dukedom.’


January 25, 1997

I was shocked to hear that not long after Jeremy Thorpe had been acquitted of an attempted murder conspiracy, he asked [Harold Wilson’s political secretary] Marcia Falkender at No 10 if she could arrange for him to receive a peerage.


March 24, 2000


Johnnie Nutting tells me a story of Jonathan Aitken’s arrival in prison. He was interviewed by a psychologist, who asked him: ‘How big is your immediate family?’ ‘Five.’ ‘And how many people not of your family know you are in prison?’

‘Oh, I suppose about 20 million.’ The psychologist put him down as a megalomaniac.


June 28

In Oxford, I meet the Vice-Chancellor, Colin Lucas, who seems shell-shocked still by the monstrously unfair attack on Oxford’s supposed ‘elitism’ by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Lucas tells me that one of the senior Treasury team told him: ‘I don’t know why you take the Chancellor so seriously. We never do.’



Lunch with By KENNETH ROSE FOR THE DAILY MAIL William Shawcross at Café Flo. Someone told him that there is not a single monarchist in Blair’s Cabinet. When William told this to John Major, John said that in his Cabinet there was not a single republican.



August 6, 2002

Lunch with Charles Moore at the Savoy. I do not envy his task of writing Mrs Thatcher’s life in three volumes. He tells me that Mrs T. suffers from a common delusion among the old, that she has no money. In fact, she earns millions from lecturing alone.


September 10, 2003

Lunch with Peter Carrington at White’s. He had Margaret Thatcher to lunch at Bledlow recently. Although diminished in health, she said she would never have invaded Iraq. Nor of course would Peter have done so.

Peter tells me a story about [French] President Giscard d’Estaing when taken to see Blenheim. He said: ‘What a large house for such a small victory.’



September 11

A poignant story of Margaret Thatcher, who, a few weeks after Denis’s death, braced herself to go through all his clothes and sent most of them to Oxfam.

The next day, their son Mark arrived and said: ‘What happened to all the clothes I left here?’ Margaret had gone to the wrong room and thrown out his clothes.


March 10, 2006


John Profumo died yesterday at the age of 91. How piquant that his downfall should have been caused by lying to the House of Commons about his affair with Christine Keeler. Who does not lie to the House of Commons nowadays?




June 8

[Historian and life peer] Hugh Thomas tells me that Black Rod, in the House of Lords, has a disconcerting habit of asking a new peer: ‘How much did you pay for it?’

There are three sorts of response: (a) outraged silence; (b) a nervous giggle, and (c) a bold, ironic ‘£200,000’.


April 7, 2009


Lunch with Peter Carrington at White’s. He tells me of the worst row he ever had with Mrs Thatcher when he was Foreign Secretary.

In front of Robert Armstrong [the PM’s Principal Private Secretary] and Michael Palliser [her Special Adviser], she rebuked him for his policy on Israel, which she said was much resented by her Jewish constituents in Finchley.

Peter replied: ‘I thought it was the policy of the Government, not mine alone. But if you think that our policy should be based on whether or not it satisfies your Jewish constituents, you had better get yourself another foreign policy and another Foreign Secretary.’

And he went out, slamming the door. Later in the day, he passed the PM in a corridor, who said: ‘That didn’t go very well this morning.’

As Peter says to me: ‘That was as near as she ever got to an apology.’


March 7, 2010

Peter Carrington was talking to Margaret Thatcher the other day and said: ‘I had no idea you were going to turn out as you did.’ She said: ‘Nor did I.’


September 13, 2011


I am deeply disturbed by the conduct of David Cameron, the PM, who has declared a planning free-for-all in the construction industry, apparently in return for huge donations to the Conservative Party. He is not a true Tory at heart but a spivvy Etonian entrepreneur.



Lunch with By KENNETH ROSE FOR THE DAILY MAIL William Shawcross at Café Flo. Someone told him that there is not a single monarchist in Blair’s Cabinet. When William told this to John Major, John said that in his Cabinet there was not a single republican.


Extracted from Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals Of Kenneth Rose, Vol. II 1979-2014, edited by D.R. Thorpe and published by Weidenfeld on November 14 at £30.© The Estate of Kenneth Rose and D.R. Thorpe 2019.



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Theresa May's premiership was determined by Brexit.


'A bloody difficult woman'


It is said that all political careers end in failure. Theresa May’s time as Prime Minister seems to have started in failure and stayed that way. It was a premiership born of, determined and ended by just one issue: a decision by the people in a referendum to leave the European Union.

"Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a success of it" was her rallying call from the very first day she stood outside Number 10, Downing Street, before stepping inside as only the second woman ever to hold its keys. She had set herself one job and departs less than three years later, having failed to deliver it.

While she became a Prime Minister for extraordinary times, there was nothing at all extraordinary about her background. Theresa Brasier was born in rural Oxfordshire, the only child of Reverend Hubert Brasier, an Anglican vicar, and his wife Zaidee – a housewife.




Much has been made of her being a vicar’s daughter - including by herself when she said that it her a sense of public service that she brought to her career as a politician. As a child she was, in her own words, a "goody two-shoes". Shy, reserved and "bookish" – she would go on to draw much public derision in recent years when she said the naughtiest thing she ever did was running through a field of wheat.

There was nothing scandalous either about her time in Oxford University where she studied Geography. While some of her Tory Party colleagues may have made headlines for their exploits in the all-male Bullington club, the most risqué story about her university years involves her walking on a wall "slightly merry".

It was in Oxford that she met her husband Philip May at a Conservative Party disco. She married him in 1980 and a year later he would become her "rock" when she lost her father in a car accident followed by her mother – who had multiple sclerosis – just a few months later. She was just 25 when both her parents died.

After a career in the Bank of England, Mrs May was a relatively late comer to politics, reaching her 40s before she was first elected as an MP for Maidenhead in 1997. As she rose through the ranks of the Tory Party her (uncharacteristically daring) choice of kitten heels became well known in political circles, while she cited Vogue magazine as the one item she would bring to a desert island.

But it was her ability to dig her heels in that became her political trademark and often on behalf of very unfashionable causes, like when she held up a mirror to the Conservative Party at their conference in 2002 (in Leopard print heels) telling them : "You know what people call us? The nasty party!"





As the longest serving Home Secretary in more than a hundred years, she rowed back on her party’s promise to reduce immigration. And wasn’t afraid to take on the police, showing signs of the icy determination she would be known for as Prime Minister when she warned delegates at the Police Federation Conference in 2014: "If you do not change of your own accord, we will impose change upon you."

It was no surprise then that in her bid to become Prime Minister, she drew some predictable comparisons. At one point the party grandee Ken Clarke was caught commenting to a colleague: "Theresa is a bloody difficult woman, but you and I worked for Margaret Thatcher!"

It was something she would wear as a badge of honour. Mrs May opposed Brexit during the referendum campaign, at one point in an interview with Tommie Gorman for RTÉ News warning of the implications for the Irish border. "If you pulled out of the EU and came out of free movement, then how could you have a situation where there was an open border with a country that was in the EU and had access to free movement?" It was a conundrum that would eventually be the undoing not just of her Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, but her standing as Prime Minister.

These words aside, she kept a low profile during that campaign, a politically shrewd move that left her in pole position to become Prime Minister. Her reputation for predictability made her the right person at the right time for a Government trying to deal with the fallout of a decision in a referendum to leave the European Union.

The Brexit negotiations started well for May, her confidence that she had the upper hand over the EU was apparent as she laid out her red lines in the Lancaster House speech of January 2017, warning European leaders that the UK was prepared to crash out if she could not negotiate a reasonable exit deal. But by the following June she had suffered a setback that changed everything.

Just a year into the job she took a gamble and called a snap election, a decision she came to while on a walking holiday in Wales with her husband, saying it was the "only way to guarantee stability for the years ahead." But it was to do precisely the opposite. As the votes were counted, what seemed as a low risk gamble had backfired spectacularly. The Conservatives were the largest party but lost their majority, leaving her reliant on the DUP to get anything through the House of Commons.

Days after this setback – and with May’s characteristically poor timing – negotiations with the EU formally got under way. It was made clear to the weakened Prime Minister that an end to freedom of movement would mean that Britain would not get the benefits of single market membership.

From then on, the compromises came thick and fast. First on the so-called divorce bill when she agreed that Britain would pay the EU £39 billion to leave, something seen as a major cave-in by Brexiteers in her party; then on the transition period when she accepted EU demands not to restrict the rights of EU citizens who arrive in Britain during the period (having previously said they would have "different" residency rights).

And then - what was seen as the biggest concession of all - when she agreed to the backstop which would ensure there would be no hard border on the island of Ireland. This was hailed as a major breakthrough by the Irish Government. But it was to be particularly opposed by the DUP who held the balance of power. What’s more, their opposition to the backstop would emboldened hard-line Tory MPs to consistently reject what they saw as a split in the UK.

As the negotiations with the EU continued, she increasingly cut an isolated figure. She put her best foot forward at every step, dancing on to the stage at her party’s conference in October 2018 to the tune of ABBA’s Dancing Queen. Her determination to carry on against the odds was met with as much admiration as despair.

In November she finally had some relief. A compromise was reached with the EU. At a special summit in Brussels the EU 27 leaders officially endorsed the terms of the UK’s" bringing an end to negotiations that had been going on for nearly twenty months.

The European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker said anyone who thought the EU might offer improved terms if MPs rejected the deal would be "disappointed." May appealed to both leave and remain supporters to endorse it saying there was no better deal available.

"We can back this deal, deliver on the vote of the referendum and move on to building a brighter future. Or this House can chose to reject this deal and go back to square one," she said. But just six days later with signs that it would not pass through the House of Commons, she said she would in fact go in search of something better. "If we went ahead and held this vote would lose. We will then defer the vote and proceed not to divide the house at this time."

From then on, the already grudging support from within her party drained away. A no-confidence motion was called in December. She once again stood her ground and promised to "contest that vote with everything I got."

On the night, 63% of MPs backed the Prime Minister, but it was more a case of survival than success. She promised to continue to seek changes from the EU on her Brexit deal, and – a rather optimistic concession - to step down at the next general election.

May limped on until another decisive week came in March. She went to Strasbourg where she claimed to have got a better deal – one, she said, that would mean that Britain would not be trapped in the controversial backstop indefinitely. But it was one that was put paid to by the Attorney General. On the morning of March 13th, after her deal was endorsed by cabinet, she declared: "Today is the day. Let’s get it done." But the momentum, as many times before, moved quickly against her.

Within hours the Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, released formal legal advice that the changes "reduce the risk" that the backstop would be permanent, but did not remove it altogether. Her Brexit strategy was once again left in tatters after the House of Commons rejected her Withdrawal Agreement later that day for a second time, by an overwhelming majority.

Her hoarse voice as she got to her feet to declare she profoundly regretted the vote only served to highlight her sense of dejection. Her husband watching down from the visitor’s gallery, seemingly the only other member of her diminished political club.

Her humiliation was again laid bare when EU leaders took control of Britain’s choices, granting an extension until the end of October to allow her one last push to get her deal through. The Halloween deadline at least offered some new metaphors as all those relating to disaster had long since been exhausted.

And yet she kept on carrying on, turning to the Labour Party to seek support for her deal. When talks with Jeremy Corbyn eventually broke down, she attempted one last throw of the dice and promised a second referendum if her Withdrawal Deal was to pass at the next time of asking in June. She was never to be given that opportunity to bring the deal forward. Her fate had already been well and truly sealed.

The woman who had singularly decided to call that fateful snap election, relying only on her husband for advice, and reportedly was without true political friends or allies from the outset, was left completely isolated. Not just by Europe, or by the House of Commons, but by her own party. Eventually, Theresa May could not dig her heels in any longer.

She was - to many - "a bloody difficult woman". Few would dispute that she had one bloody difficult job. She leaves office having failed in that task. That will be her ultimate legacy.

The more nuanced question over whether there was ever a path to success for her to take, will be debated for years to come. And perhaps one of the few things that will redeem her is the lingering question she leaves behind: Would anyone else have done it better?


rte:
https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0524/10...-announcement/
'A bloody difficult woman' with a bloody difficult job - RTÉ 24 May 2019.
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‘Hypocritical’ UK Govt to Sign UN Migration Pact Despite Pledge to Control Borders





While debate on the UN migration pact rages worldwide, with a growing number of nations following the United States in withdrawing, the major deal has seen little discussion in the United Kingdom.


Britain’s ruling Conservative Party made pledges to reduce immigration “from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands” in the 2010, 2015, and 2017 general elections, a promise they have not yet made significant progress in keeping.

Indeed, net migration to Britain still runs at over 270,000 a year, and former Tory chancellor George Osborne has suggested the party’s leadership never intended to honour the pledge.

Either way, signing the United Nations’ so-called Global Compact on Migration for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration would be a major step away from ever realising that commitment, a campaign group has said.

British peer Lord Green of Deddington submitted two parliamentary questions to the government this week in which he requested information on whether, and how, the globalist pledge to ease and “enhance” migration would fit with the Conservatives’ long-standing promise to bring it under control and reduce it.

Several recent polls have indicated that controlling immigration levels remains an important topic for British voters.

A press release by Migration Watch UK, the London-based campaign group which Lord Green leads, said of the pact: “The UK Government should make it clear that it will not sign… If they have any regard for their election promises it would be entirely hypocritical to do so.”

Alp Mehmet, vice-chairman of Migration Watch UK, remarked on the UN deal itself, saying: “The Compact appears to have been drafted by diplomats whose aim seems to be to ‘normalise’ mass immigration from the developing world to the West at a time when the public are very clear that they find the scale and pace of such flows to be unsustainable and unacceptable.”

During drafting, British negotiators called for clauses recognising that it is the right and obligation of states to control their own borders, and that there should be a distinction between refugees and economic migrants, but they were not incorporated into the final text.

While legal professionals have said the compact acts will create a legal framework that lawyers will interpret at the national level to advance mass migration, it has received little attention or debate in the United Kingdom, where the political space remains consumed by Brexit.

Yet as the UK works to extract itself from one multinational framework and makes a bid for freedom, it may have inadvertently sleepwalked into another, signed by an ostensibly conservative government which pledged to the people in three consecutive elections to control immigration levels.

Breitbart London has reported on the several nations which have decided the document makes an unacceptable grab on national sovereignty and the right to self-determination, however, following the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw his country from the compact in December 2017.

President Trump said at the body’s New York headquarters in September: “Migration should not be governed by an international body unaccountable to our own citizens.

“Ultimately, the only long-term solution to the migration crisis is to help people build more hopeful futures in their home countries: make their countries great again.”

Others nations withdrew after the final text of the agreement was set, declaring they would not be signing up to the compact in December. Among those that have confirmed, or indicated they are rethinking joining, are Australia, Poland, Israel, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Croatia.


The Mail like all MSM is now controlled opposition since it was bought out by a progressive globalist.

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europe is such a mess,, its going to take a war to fix

America could not sensibly allow an Islamic Western Europe. If this happens she will be facing serious political and physical problems. America should start working to destroy the EU & the UN now before it is too late.



UK Govt to Sign UN Migration Pact Despite Pledge to...

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While debate on the UN migration pact rages worldwide, with a growing number of nations following the United States in withdrawing, the major deal has seen little discussion in the United Kingdom.



Signing the UK up to the UN Migration Bill against the will of the majority of the British people shows how corrupt Theresa 'Sharia' May was. She was paid to and done the biding of the Globalist controllers.





UK Commitment to UN Migration Pact All But 'Violates' Govt...

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Alp Mehmet, Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK, told Breitbart London, “This Compact is misguided and one that the UK should not have signed. “No government serious about reducing migration should be committing to it.

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