tony

tony
there was a time when i quite fancied the idea of being a politician. i am happy to admit i would have made a shit one, if only because of my propensity to swear. though in today’s climate i could have used that ‘narrative’ (i fucking hate that word) to score me the top job. imagine it the first prime minister with mild tourettes? fucking brilliant. (yes i would have had to lie about the tourette’s but that is beside the point).
however the last few years have been a reminder that a politician’s lot is not a happy one. few people like them, fewer people trust them
it must be soul destroying to go into a career with hope in your heart and a desire to change the country, the world for good and you end up being thought of as thieving scum. (of course for the conservatives this is not such a problem as they have no souls to start with).
so tony has written a book about his time as prime minister.
he has had a big advance for it, it is more than likely going to sell very well – i know i want a copy.
now tony isn’t a poor man. generously he has decided to give the advance and any profits to the british legion.
what a bastard. it is blood money, he is trying to buy absolution, he should never have taken us to war in the first place, and he should have funded the wars better. blah blah shittingly blah blah. the daily mail is there trumpeting this attack on blair, even quoting lindsay german the convener of ‘stop the war’ and also of the socialist workers party (hey enemy of my enemy is my friend, i guess).
they even say that by giving the money to charity he is robbing the taxman. yeah that works. if you care about robbing the taxman then i will be expecting a lot of stories about what total tossers all those non-doms are. don’t think i will hold my breath waiting.
if tony had said, do you know what the mail is going to call me a cunt no matter what i do so i may as well keep the cash imagine what the outcry would have been then?
that is the thing for politicians they can never win. if they change their minds they are seen as being weak, if they stubbornly stick to the same idea regardless of the facts they are dogmatic. if they make a single mistake they should fall on their swords (of course this happens so often in the real world – hey just look at all those bankers who have… oh collecting more throat gagging bonuses).
still while for most politicians are being thought of shit on the bottom of your shoe, tony blair is enjoying the free publicity he is getting for his book and the subsequent speaking engagements he will get on the back of it.
at least tony has given the british legion something, can’t help wondering how many of the commenters on the mail’s message boards will be putting their hands in their pockets and sending some money to the british legion?