Toby on Tuesday 

‘Middle East Wealth Envoy’

 

We all know that the EU is the great scam of our time, a scam that is finally being seen in its true light.   But behind it are some interesting characters who are worth studying and today I want to write about Tony Blair.

Now in a sense I was Tony Blair’s first victim, for in 1983 I found myself as Conservative Parliamentary candidate in Sedgefield.   This was the time leading up to the miners’ strike and I was looking forward to a lively campaign in the old Durham coalfield, with vigorous debate and democracy at its most outspoken.   You can imagine my surprise therefore when I found that the Labour candidate was an over-friendly London lawyer called Tony Blair!   I challenged him to an open public debate on our policies, including his policy of withdrawal from the then EEC!   His response was, “No, that’s the Old Politics.   But I want you to meet Cherie’s step-mother Pat Phoenix – Pat, come and meet Toby, he’s fighting a great campaign!”

For once, I was lost for words and I have followed the trajectory of Blair’s “New Politics” ever since.   So it didn’t come as a surprise to me the other day to read about his complex network of commercial deals interlinked with his “political” and “charitable” work.   Of course his role in recent years as “Middle East Peace Envoy” has been the perfect cover for his lucrative life as adviser to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi’s £42 billion Mubadala Development Company, acting for Qatar’s vast sovereign wealth fund and much more deal-making besides.

It would take Sherlock Holmes himself to untangle the extraordinary web of global charities, companies and advisory activity at the centre of which rests our former Prime Minister, always protected by his police bodyguard at a cost to the UK taxpayer of up to £16,000 per week..   For my part, I would definitely be interested to learn more of his advisory work for Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan and especially his advice on “managing his image after the slaughter of unarmed protesters!”

Now where of course this is relevant is in Tony Blair’s continued involvement in the whole malign EU project and his plan to play a leading role in the “Yes” campaign.  But really Tony Blair and the EU are made for each other and his campaigning for an “In” vote will emphasise this all too clearly.   And where this is also relevant is in the context of our “heir to Blair”, our very own David Cameron.

Now, our Prime Minister has already announced that he will step down as leader of the Conservative Party in 2019.   We know him to be committed to a “Yes” vote irrespective of the outcome of what he laughingly calls his EU “reform negotiations.”   And of course he will then almost certainly use his bulging address book to try and emulate “the Master”, as he calls him, for a comparable future.   “Green” issues will probably replace Blair’s “Faith” issues, but the result will be the same and the poor old British voter will yet again have been used as little more than a springboard for an ex-Prime Minster’s life of global wheeling and dealing –  so welcome to the New World Order!

Until next Tuesday!

Toby