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BLAIR IS GLAD TO BE GREY

SUPPORT: Tony Blair

Friday June 6,2008

By Gabriel Milland, Political Correspondent

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FREE of the cares of office, it looks as if Tony Blair is happy to grow old gracefully.

On a rare return visit to Parliament yesterday the former Prime Minister’s chestnut locks appear to have faded.

The change left many wondering if – at the age of 55 and with a lucrative private-sector career secured – Mr Blair no longer feels that he needs to dye his hair.

While he was Prime Minister, Downing Street went to great lengths to quash such speculation.

His barber put out a statement in 2002 assuring the public that Mr Blair’s hair colour was entirely natural.

Yesterday the newly glad-to-be-grey Mr Blair could only offer lukewarm support to his beleaguered successor Gordon Brown.

In his first interview on British TV since standing down a year ago, Mr Blair said it was inevitable that not everyone would be happy with Mr Brown’s premiership.

He said: “It’s a tough job and I have nothing but respect and admiration for people that take it on.

“It’s difficult for all leaders at the moment around the western world.”

In an apparent dig at Mr Brown’s reputation for being out of touch, Mr Blair told GMTV there was a danger of appearing “inhuman”. He said: “The trouble with being a politician is that you end up getting so programmed to be careful that if you are not careful you end up being programmed to be inhuman.”

But he described Mr Brown as “probably the most successful finance minister in the world for a decade”.

In words that may not go down too well at home, Mr Blair dismissed his wife Cherie’s controversial and indiscreet autobiography as “a bit of fun”, despite her collecting an estimated £1.5million publisher’s advance.

Later he appeared before the Commons international development committee and rejected Labour MP Jim Sheridan’s suggestion that his backing for the invasion of Iraq made him useless in winning over Muslim opinion.

Mr Blair said it was vital that the next US president engages with the Middle East as soon as he is elected.

AS FOR GOING TO WAR ON IRAQ....

07.06.08, 10:32am

And not upsetting Muslims; what about this then Teflon?...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9111.htm

Please Note:- The link to the times is now invalid as the piece has been removed (wonder why?)

A little further down you will a link to the archived minutes.

The war was a plot, an agreement/arrangement between Pres' Bush and Blair well before the story broke.

This is likely the real reason A Blair is out of the country so muck. He probably knows he should be tried for crimes against humanity.

And this is the man that would be king(of the abominable EU). Given the baleful and anti-democratic nature of the EU despotism, it is not an inappropriate post for someone alike to Teflon Tony to aspire to. He can fill his boots with Euro cash while shafting innocent countries and stealing their lands (Kosovo).

No matter how grey his hair the man will always be black, in my humble estimation.

• Posted by: blam • Report Comment

HANG ABOUT REUBEN

06.06.08, 11:50pm

Wouldn't you feel entitled if you had to wake up every morning with that witch next to you.

Give the old Ham a break,no wonder he leaves the country so often and for so long.

His hair has gone from dark brown to grey in 11 years and old Taxalot McTurpin is catcing up fast.

It's tough at the top,or in their case,the bottom.

• Posted by: sweetypie • Report Comment

BLAIR TO GROW OLD IN DISGRACE......

06.06.08, 1:59pm

WAR-MONGER BLAIR IS ENTITLED TO LOOK HAPPY.

WITH HIS FOUR HOMES AND MILLIONS IN AN OFF-SHORE BANK.

ANOTHER BLOODY HYPOCRITE.

• Posted by: ReubenMohawali • Report Comment

WAIT TIL HE GOES BALD, BUT WHO CARES

06.06.08, 1:43pm

Money bags is laughing all the way to the bank
as the pair of them milked that job he had for all it was worth,undermining what used to be a
a respected position. This country is in an awful state under his "guidance",still as the old saying goes what goes round comes round,he may have something to grin about now, but then later, who knows?i

• Posted by: Maggie • Report Comment

NOT EVERYONE IS GLAD

06.06.08, 1:13pm

Many people in Britain live in misery because of the mismanagement of Britain by New Labour since 1997.

To take one example, many people are entering retirement with little or no money because Blair let Brown plunder the nation's pensions.

To take another example, many people live in fear of crime and anti-social behaviour, much of it linked to the vast wave of immigration which Britain has experienced in recent years.

Not everyone is glad, Mr Blair. You are lucky. Others are not.

• Posted by: Camerton • Report Comment

IS MR BLAIR HAVING A LAUGH?

06.06.08, 11:21am

When he says that Brown was “probably the most successful finance minister in the world for a decade”. Is that a misprint or did he mean to say "unsuccessful" finance minister?.

Brown is the man who sold off our gold reserves and left Britain the lowest bullion holdings of any major country. He also caused the collapse of the final salary pension schemes of millions of private sector employees by taxing private sector pensions while ignoring unsustainable public sector pensions. He encouraged thousands of people to take out credit plunging them into debt for years to come. Need I go on?

The economy is now suffering and much of the blame can be put at Brown's door.

• Posted by: JDK • Report Comment