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He reportedly turned down the offer of £125,000 from a charitable organisation to give a twenty minute speech since they wouldn't meet his demand for £330,000.
Ironically the theme of the speech was 'How to feed the world's poor'.
And of course it also begs the question what the he'll is a charity doing paying out a fee of that size.
You couldn't make it up as the saying goes ?? |
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"He reportedly turned down the offer of £125,000 from a charitable organisation to give a twenty minute speech since they wouldn't meet his demand for £330,000.
Ironically the theme of the speech was 'How to feed the world's poor'.
And of course it also begs the question what the he'll is a charity doing paying out a fee of that size.
You couldn't make it up as the saying goes ??"
Charity is the biggest con. I would like to believe a bit reaches its destination but someone somewhere gets richer and richer. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"He reportedly turned down the offer of £125,000 from a charitable organisation to give a twenty minute speech since they wouldn't meet his demand for £330,000.
Ironically the theme of the speech was 'How to feed the world's poor'.
And of course it also begs the question what the he'll is a charity doing paying out a fee of that size.
You couldn't make it up as the saying goes ??"
Blair's appearance would have attracted 'bigger fish' to the donations table and, in any case, Blair has a history of passing the fee for such events onto charity. |
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"He reportedly turned down the offer of £125,000 from a charitable organisation to give a twenty minute speech since they wouldn't meet his demand for £330,000.
Ironically the theme of the speech was 'How to feed the world's poor'.
And of course it also begs the question what the he'll is a charity doing paying out a fee of that size.
You couldn't make it up as the saying goes ??
Blair's appearance would have attracted 'bigger fish' to the donations table and, in any case, Blair has a history of passing the fee for such events onto charity."
could you pls tell us what charities he has passed to other than his wifes ? |
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Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM (the only other exception being Major).
It may have less to do with his supposed modesty, or having no need of such medieval trappings and more to do with the fact that peers have to declare their earnings and investments.
He's done very well from doing 'good' - I'm sure a few crumbs to some charities makes him feel a little bit more smug inside. |
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"Now that he's finished being Grand High Poobah for world peace in the Middle East, it's only logical that he aims for the Papacy"
Or the new president of Fifa, sure he would like to get his grubby hands on some of that corrupt money.  |
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"Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM (the only other exception being Major).
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And Gordon Brown."
Brown was an MP until the end of this parliament |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM (the only other exception being Major).
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And Gordon Brown.
Brown was an MP until the end of this parliament"
So? |
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"Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM (the only other exception being Major).
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And Gordon Brown.
Brown was an MP until the end of this parliament
So?"
So... you can't sit in both the House of Commons and of Lords.
Tony Benn fought to have his peerage removed so he could continue sitting in as an MP, for instance. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM (the only other exception being Major).
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And Gordon Brown.
Brown was an MP until the end of this parliament
So?
So... you can't sit in both the House of Commons and of Lords.
Tony Benn fought to have his peerage removed so he could continue sitting in as an MP, for instance. "
Gordon didn't want to sit in the HoL. |
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"Tells you everything you need to know about Blair"
This. It's just amazing that so many people were fooled for so long. Always knew he was a self-serving charlatan, even from before his time as PM.
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"Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM (the only other exception being Major).
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And Gordon Brown.
Brown was an MP until the end of this parliament
So?
So... you can't sit in both the House of Commons and of Lords.
Tony Benn fought to have his peerage removed so he could continue sitting in as an MP, for instance.
Gordon didn't want to sit in the HoL."
Clearly not - he remained in Parliament and is blocked, for instance, to the Order of the Garter by Blair. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM (the only other exception being Major).
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And Gordon Brown.
Brown was an MP until the end of this parliament
So?
So... you can't sit in both the House of Commons and of Lords.
Tony Benn fought to have his peerage removed so he could continue sitting in as an MP, for instance.
Gordon didn't want to sit in the HoL.
Clearly not - he remained in Parliament and is blocked, for instance, to the Order of the Garter by Blair."
He remained in the Commons till the General Election at which time he stood down as an MP.
I, like you, have no idea what you're talking about re Order of the Garter. |
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Lol - don't get tetchy!
The Order of the Garter is the the sovereign's gift and is traditionally bestowed upon retiring PM.
As with the peerage, Blair refused to take it, blocking Brown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter
And besides, Brown *chose* to stay in Parliament until the end of this session. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"Lol - don't get tetchy!
The Order of the Garter is the the sovereign's gift and is traditionally bestowed upon retiring PM.
As with the peerage, Blair refused to take it, blocking Brown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter
And besides, Brown *chose* to stay in Parliament until the end of this session. "
IF Blair refused it, how did that 'block' Brown?
As for 'tetchy', I tend to get tetchy when contributors quote Wiki (or the Tory press) instead of thinking for themselves. |
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"Charity is the biggest con. I would like to believe a bit reaches its destination but someone somewhere gets richer and richer."
Tell that to people who've received help from charities |
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By *nnyMan
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"Charity is the biggest con. I would like to believe a bit reaches its destination but someone somewhere gets richer and richer.
Tell that to people who've received help from charities"
Like those who benefitted from the advance and profits from his autobiography - the Royal British Legion. |
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I wouldn't want to listen to anything he had to say even if he paid me to listen.
Nothing but a selfish lying thief who courted powerful union barrows to rise through the ranks of his party supported by other equally devious cohorts. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"I wouldn't want to listen to anything he had to say even if he paid me to listen.
Nothing but a selfish lying thief who courted powerful union barrows to rise through the ranks of his party supported by other equally devious cohorts."
What do you reckon he's stolen? |
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"Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM."
Because that would have meant kneeling before the Queen.
Clearly he couldn't bring himself to do that. |
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By *nnyMan
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"Of course you have to ask why Blair hasn't accepted the traditional offer of a peerage since departing as PM.
Because that would have meant kneeling before the Queen.
Clearly he couldn't bring himself to do that."
He's quite happy to kneel before a parish priest. |
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"Charity is the biggest con. I would like to believe a bit reaches its destination but someone somewhere gets richer and richer.
Tell that to people who've received help from charities
Like those who benefitted from the advance and profits from his autobiography - the Royal British Legion."
Blair's Guilty conscience supporting the Legion considering what he got our troops into in Iraq don't you think? |
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Well he's now the new chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR).
I wonder if that extends to reconciling the mess he helped start in the middle east...
..and I had money on Fifa chairman. |
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"Well he's now the new chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR).
I wonder if that extends to reconciling the mess he helped start in the middle east...
..and I had money on Fifa chairman."
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Because the Garter works on a precedence basis, and Blair has refused to fulfill that, blocking Brown. 