Dispatches - investigation on Tony Blair (Monday 26th Sept)

peter101cycle

Okay, so I am not the biggest fan of Tony but I am quite interested in how he has acquired all his wealth. Hopefully, the programme should uncover a few interesting bits and finally kill off any further political aspirations he may have.

Is it just me or is the guy is a complete rat?

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verylonglegs

No, no he tells us he's squared it all ok with god so that's just fine then. :roll:

I think it's safe to say his reputation has been set in stone now.

ooermissus

Oborne (the Spectator/Mail/Telegraph presenter of the programme) has long regarded Blair as a traitor who used his time as PM to deliberately undermine the UK's interests for personal gain.

Frank the tank

No big fan of Blair myself but, I think most people who have acquired substantial wealth will have "skeletons in cupboards" and will have screwed people over to a greater or lesser extent to further their own ends.

Smokin Joe

Dispatches is a programme which promises startling revelations about someone or something and just ends up repeating a load of stuff which is already well known.

rodgers73

Indeed, their drugs in football report was most underwhelming

dilemna

Blair allegedly has uncomfortably strong financial links to JP Morgan and the Kuwaitis. Obornes article in the Torygraph didn't surprise me. First and foremost the Blairs have always only been interested in making money for themselves. Apparently £14m in property alone. Allegedly Jonathan Powell is curiously still very much involved with the Blair's activities.

Gazzaputt

Smokin Joe wrote:

Dispatches is a programme which promises startling revelations about someone or something and just ends up repeating a load of stuff which is already well known.

+1

The football drugs report was a crock of shite.

cougie

Yep the football was a real let down. As was their report on the London Marathon.

Its no better than Watchdog - with their whiny complainants.

lifeform

Rather than trying to wind up the educated populace again - and let's face it, Despatches will only be watched by people who already know how crooked everyone is at the top, not just Blair - it would have been far more interesting to explain just how the arch-Roman Catholic warmongering Crusader against Islam has ended up as a special peace envoy to the Middle East.

There is no rational explanation for that except that the Arab world has a better sense of humour than was first thought

rick_chasey

Real life Tony Blair:




Tony Blair in lifeform's head:

Gazzaputt

Quote from Mr. Bridger: "Camp Freddie, everyone in the *world* is bent!"

Redhog14

Shock! Prominent lawyer whose parents could afford to send him to one of the country's most expensive private schools, then marries another prominent London barrister and earns loads of cash. Becomes Prime Minister of a G8 Country and then charges tens of thousands in "consultancy" fees to businesses and organisations after leaving office.
Not really sure Columbo would be getting out of bed for this one.

mrushton

Not thousands, but allegedly millions and from Govts who are not tolerant of dissent. The deals were done in such a way that the details are out of the public domains, locked away in Kuwaiti vaults etc. Plus there were consultancies with Iraqi Oil co. UI and others.

Anonymous

I think his legacy will be seen as negative, rather than the shining light he and Mrs blair would want to be precieved as.

RoadyForever

I really believe we would all be better off if Katie Price ran the country rather than these two clowns (Blair and Brown).

There's still the big cloud over why they dropped all that gold in 2007. To me, they knew they wouldn't get re-elected and by doing so they would insure their friends would look after them

bianchimoon

when tony blair said "i will b judged by a higher court than this" to Jeremy Paxman and an audience of peers on newsnight about WMD I couldn't believe my ears. For an elected leader of our country to say in effect that it doesn't matter what the people who elected him think, his deluded view that he can make decisions that end the life of people with the 'blessing' of his god finished any hope i have that our democratic process will weed out charlatans/lunatics/fradsters before they get into a position of power

dabber

RoadyForever wrote:

There's still the big cloud over why they dropped all that gold in 2007.

Do you mean the 400 tons of the gold reserves that the incompetent Brown sold when the price was at a 20-year low during the 1999 to 2002 period?

Cleat Eastwood

bianchimoon wrote:

when tony blair said "i will b judged by a higher court than this" to Jeremy Paxman and an audience of peers on newsnight about WMD I couldn't believe my ears. For an elected leader of our country to say in effect that it doesn't matter what the people who elected him think, his deluded view that he can make decisions that end the life of people with the 'blessing' of his god finished any hope i have that our democratic process will weed out charlatans/lunatics/fradsters before they get into a position of power

There was an interesting documentary the other week on psychopaths, not your average knife wielding type, but the type that has no empathy for others but can expertly mimic concern. Blair was a perfect match for their profile.

And rather scarily a test of the major busineses in the US revealed that 40% of execs and chief execs were clinically psychopathic.

On the positive side it was revealed that while the psychos can mimic emotion and appear to have charisma (hence their rise up the greasy pole) they were inadequate at their job.

So thats camerons cover blown then.

bianchimoon

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

when tony blair said "i will b judged by a higher court than this" to Jeremy Paxman and an audience of peers on newsnight about WMD I couldn't believe my ears. For an elected leader of our country to say in effect that it doesn't matter what the people who elected him think, his deluded view that he can make decisions that end the life of people with the 'blessing' of his god finished any hope i have that our democratic process will weed out charlatans/lunatics/fradsters before they get into a position of power

There was an interesting documentary the other week on psychopaths, not your average knife wielding type, but the type that has no empathy for others but can expertly mimic concern. Blair was a perfect match for their profile.

And rather scarily a test of the major busineses in the US revealed that 40% of execs and chief execs were clinically psychopathic.

On the positive side it was revealed that while the psychos can mimic emotion and appear to have charisma (hence their rise up the greasy pole) they were inadequate at their job.

So thats camerons cover blown then.

Crikey.. that your right that sums Blair up, how could the labour party get him so wrong, or how can so few control so many in that party

rick_chasey

bianchimoon wrote:

when tony blair said "i will b judged by a higher court than this" to Jeremy Paxman and an audience of peers on newsnight about WMD I couldn't believe my ears. For an elected leader of our country to say in effect that it doesn't matter what the people who elected him think, his deluded view that he can make decisions that end the life of people with the 'blessing' of his god finished any hope i have that our democratic process will weed out charlatans/lunatics/fradsters before they get into a position of power

Pretty sure people voted for labour to be in power.

bianchimoon

Rick Chasey wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

when tony blair said "i will b judged by a higher court than this" to Jeremy Paxman and an audience of peers on newsnight about WMD I couldn't believe my ears. For an elected leader of our country to say in effect that it doesn't matter what the people who elected him think, his deluded view that he can make decisions that end the life of people with the 'blessing' of his god finished any hope i have that our democratic process will weed out charlatans/lunatics/fradsters before they get into a position of power

Pretty sure people voted for labour to be in power.

yes, am i missing something?