The book can now be read guilt free, knowing that the proceeds will not be lining Blair’s pockets but helping soldiers returning from the frontline. It’s got all the talkability that Mandelson’s book lacked, it’s released in a season when most politicians are on holiday and the only serious competition it has for the front pages are Kelly Brook celebrating naked month by dyeing herself orange and parading in a series of ever-skimpier frocks and Joe McElderry coming out of the closet in the hope that it’ll shift a few more units of his debut album. Tony Blair may have had support in the past, but this proves he’s learned how to keep his name in the public eye, and his reputation safe, all by himself – if the book tanks, he won’t suffer and he’ll be seen to have tried. He’s protected himself in a hermetically sealed aura of ‘nice guy’ once again and it’ll be interesting to see what happens next with his memoirs – and how the people who have wanted to see him accused of war crimes will react.http://www.markborkowski.com/tony-blairs-cunning-stunt/
Tony Blair’s Cunning Stunt
If any politician was going to pull off the greatest stunt of a generation, it really had to be Tony Blair. And, by committing all the proceeds from his memoirs (as well as the £4 million advance) to the Royal British Legion’s Battle Back challenge centre, a project that will provide state-of-the-art rehabilitation services for seriously injured troops returning from the frontline, he has done exactly that.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010
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I’ll buy it when he adds a chapter about being on trial in The Hague.
I’d rather not buy his book of atonement but will simply give the money straight to the Royal British Legion.
I hope his guilt is making him feel a tad uncomfortable.
This is a plot to drive Gordon Brown crazy – how will Brown be able to upstage Blair on this one!
No.
It is not generous, it is cynical.
It is not a cunning stunt, it is spin.
It may have taken a while, but we know the nature of Blair.
Nice one RH but I’d only buy it when he is doing a rewrite from behind bars. And only then when the thickness of the tome matched the wobbly table leg. Second thought s feck him, I’ll give my charity cash to one of my chossing not his (H4H).
I hate that man, his obnoxious gobsheyite wife and revolting family and the horse they rode in on. I’ve been consistent in that since 1996. So don’t blame me for the current mess cos I didn’t vote for him or his wunch of bankers party. Saw him for the flim flam man he is waaayyy before.
Tony Blair is a cheat, a thief, a pirate and a liar (let’s not forget that his expenses claims got shredded before anyone could see them)……..a man who knows no shame. A ‘user’ of people. A sociopath on a grand scale. He has made the country a worse place to live in. He has played his part in tearing apart the moral fabric of this country with his absurd and twisted notions of fairness and ‘human rights’ (and remember, his wife’s Matrix Chambers do very nicely in using Human Rights legislation to enrich themselves).
Unfortunately, he also shows signs of a well developed ‘God’ complex which means that he really cannot see that his ideas often don’t work. If he thinks it can be done – it must be so……..
Pathetic….
There are so many things wrong with Tony’s book and cynical PR ploy, to name a few:
- Isn’t he being paid to sort out the Middle East – where does this fit in?
- Is he gift aiding this – paying the appropriate tax?
- Isn’t this a ploy to ‘have a go’ at Mandlseon?
- Hasn’t he been shamed into this by Brown?
- His decision making and misleading the Country into an illegal war is why charities like the Royal British Legion need so much money – It is so two faced it makes me furious.
- Tony Blair ‘i’m a straight kinda guy’ is deluded like his successor – I will not be surprised, when the Pope dies, if he throws his hat into the ring for that.
If only he was half as brilliant as he thought he was perhaps this Country would not be going to the dogs.
Prehaps he could take ‘A Journey’ to Iraq and apologise to the people out there, find the WMD’s and prove us wrong – now i’d read a book about that.
Can’t stand all the people who want Blair on trial but who sat on their arses not giving a flying damn while half a million Iraqi children died under UN sanctions between 1991 and 2003 – a direct consequence of not invading Iraq earlier. Self-righteous hypocrisy. If they’d really cared about Iraqi innocents dying by the hundred thousand they’d have been protesting long before the invasion. Just shows all they really cared about was hating George Bush, and Blair for working with him. Nothing to do with innocent Iraqis at all.
Chazza46
Er, if we’d invaded Iraq earlier it would’ve been illegal.
That is all.
Please remember that this is Tony Bliar who is quoted as saying he will give “all the proceeds”. Going on past deceits, will we eventually see that it is just the proceeds from, say, UK sales? Will there be a catch – my money says there will be. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he told his (even more) money grabbing missus his plan though!
Two reasons: It’s tax deductible and an imminent coroner’s inquest regarding the death of Dr. Kelly.