Tony Blair Incorporated

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How Tony Blair Inc spent £57 million in four years

 

Pretty remarkable for someone who tells us his total accumulated wealth is only £10M.

 

A senior accountant who studied Mr Blair's accounts last week said: "He is rather artfully putting his income into a partnership that has no requirement to file public accounts. You can never get to the bottom of what his income is because it always goes into an entity that has to file nowhere other than with HM Revenue & Customs.”

 

Well... I suppose it's just that socialism has come an awful long way since Clement Attlee.

 

 

Tony probably needed to form a lawn-edging consultancy subsidiary to get his trimmed.  But, we must remember that Tone didn't get that lucrative non-job in Brussels he'd set his heart on because the nasty British voters send a whole bunch of Fruitcakes, Loonies And Closet Racists to rock the Euro gravy train. So... really... he does need to earn a few extra bob on the side.  And, his office assures us:-

 

"Mr Blair is a UK taxpayer and pays full personal tax on all his earnings worldwide.”

 

Technically true, but how much is he sheltering in this unfathomable web of companies that the UK tax man doesn't even get to know about?  And just how much are we paying for this squad of Metropolitan Police close protection officers that jet around the world with him?  The arrangement for protecting ex-PMs never envisioned that ex-PMs would be running multiple highly lucrative businesses after office, or exposing themselves to risk here there and everywhere.  I do hope that we aren't paying those £5000 a night hotel bills for them too.  We really should be told!

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Lady Ggg for Symptoms,it looks like Mr Atlee is dressed for the occasion,plenty of people from Bedders must have been impressed

By this Photo & decided to name a park after him let's hope Wansbeck council are looking after it in the way Mr Atlees eye for detail shows LOL

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The point is - and I'm sure you didn't miss the general drift - that Attlee was a modest man. He was a solicitor, like our Tone, but a totally genuine person.  He did what he did because he was motivated to improve general living standards without any thought of personal gain. In short he wasn't a career politician who constantly put his career before his principals.

When politicos of the first half of the last century said something you could be absolutely sure that they firmly believed it, and that it wasn't, first and foremost, directed squarely at their next career move.  Is there a single person in LibLabCon who you can say the same of these days?  Present day politicians don't all take cynicism to the lengths that TB does, but to a greater or lesser degree they all have their fingers in the pie.  Our problem is that current generations have forgotten that uncompromisingly public spirited politicians ever existed!  When did the last politician ever resign over a point of pure principal?  This was something which happened as regular as clockwork.

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You many, of course, have bought into the storyline that Tone is simply making unwanted comments from the sidelines, and is no longer any part of the Labour Party machine.  After all the LP mouthpiece tells us just so:

 

Tony Blair is very much the past.-- The New Statesman, March, 2012

 

But, can this be believed?

 

Ed Balls met Tony Blair during US trip  20th Jan 2015

 

and...

 

Ed Miliband has been holding secret talks with former PM Tony Blair to discuss Labour's strategy.  The pair have met four times to review the party's direction under Mr Miliband's leadership.  -- The Sun

 

But, most of all, money talks:  the huge fees Tony can still command from overseas clients aren't simply because he's "very much the past", they're because he has that influence thing politicos are so keen to bamboozle us with. Rather a lot of influence in the present!  The Westminster-elitist smoke and mirrors machine that is today's Labour Party wills you to believe quite differently.