Save the Children staff furious over ‘global legacy’ award for Tony Blair
 

He and Bush should have been "awarded" prison sentences.

Charities are inevitably 'milked' by admin, governance etc, but this is ridiculous. STC typically absorbs about 15% before anything heads towards the intended recipients. I'm guessing they'll lose a lot of goodwill as a result of this award.

Quote:

'Its (STC) UK chief executive, Justin Forsyth, was a special adviser to Blair for three years, and Jonathan Powell, Blair’s former chief of staff, is currently on the board of STC.'

How much longer will this self serving,inside dealing,sycophantic,morally debased bunch of ego maniacs get away with this?

The west are just as bad as any other society in letting these people rise to the
top.

Considering the amount of vitriole both spoken and written against Margaret Thatcher over the years, predominantly by hardcore Labour supporters, there's some irony in the fact that their most 'successful' leader is so morally bankrupt.

Shame there isn't a suitable DeLorean around. Somebody could go back to '97 and assassinate the weasel. I have absolutely no doubt the World would be a better place.

Good post.

It's all about pushing fwd Tonys profile as the "Saviour" of Africa, cos after all he saved the middle east from themselves, right

Appalling distasteful, but he's got to put his foot down and get in ahead of the Chinese


He gained foothold west Africa as result of saving liberians from themselves

As bad as Blair was and let's face it he was pretty bloody awful he still did nowhere near the damage to this country that Thatcher did. She dismantled the good part of the society we had and turned us into a nation of selfish greed driven bigots as witnessed by at least two posters on this thread!

Thatch didn't extend her reign of duplicity anywhere she could

All she cared about was UK plc, at teh expense of the working bloke

Her son on the other hand ..

Sierra 'Leonian's'

Maybe, but she only buggered up one country, unlike Blair.

Which countries did Blair bugger up that would not of been buggered whether he was in power or not?

The invasion of Iraq.
The 'War on Terror'.

Without Tony Blair and George Bush maybe 50% of the news wouldn't be devoted to Islamists making a nuisance of themselves in their own countries or trying to kill us in ours.

Do you believe Libya, Syria, Egypt etc would still have happened the way it has without 2003?

They are talking about this on the Daily Politics right now.

It all comes back to Iraq.

Impossible to say.

What I think we can say though is that all the things you mentioned would of happened anyway, irrespective of who the PM of the UK was

It's quite sad that you have to watch Al Jazeera/RT or French media outlets to find out what is going on in your own country. I avoid UK news on TV, unless local because of the constant terrorism guff. It really is boring.

Thank you Tony. I have an award of my own for you.

That is complete bollocks! Stop being such a fecking apologist!

Could you point to the part that was either 'apologist' or 'bollocks'?

He seemed amazingly comfortable with sacrificing other parents children for his bizarre beliefs

And true to those beliefs he simply does not recognise the sovereignty of humanity to judge him

He is as close to iradeemable as it is possible to get

The whole 'it would have happened anyway' crap... qualifies as both bollocks and apologist! You have no idea if it would have happened anyway.

Are you saying that the US would not of invaded anyway?

Rumsfeld was pretty clear about the US not needing the UK, or anyone else for that matter

Maybe if we had had a leader with some common sense instead of a glory seeking world stager then we could have leaned on the US to at least contemplate a plan for what happens after they rid the country of Saddam before they actually did so.

Well I agree the post war planning was a disaster. The FO were actually kicking up a hell of fuss about this, they were largely ignored by the US.
This however wasn't the point I made, and certainly, doesn't explain the 'apologist' or 'bollocks' comment you made.

You said it would have happened anyway. I said not necessarily and gave you an example as to why it might not.

Ergo your statement was bollocks!

You also keep making excuses for Blair's actions both in this post and others ergo you are being an apologist!

QED!

Goodnight!

It would have happened anyway.

You're argument that 'it might not' is at best baseless speculation, at worst fanciful.

Stop trying to rewrite history.

Please, please...

Would have or would've.

Enough already.

Now corrected, humblest apologies for my faux pas

lol how appropriate considering you love to correct my use of there and they're, arse.... :o

The only reason I mentioned your spelling was because you were using poor English to insult me.
Now go away, or say something that might actually add something to the discussion.

In your opinion which is not fact despite what your ego tells you!

Whereas your 'it would have happened anyway' (well actually it's 'it would of (sic) happened anyway' according to you :lol1:) statement is based on you being an apologist and a bit of a egotistical ****!

Where have I tried to rewrite history? You made a statement that is clearly nonsense and I suggested otherwise. If I had said the illegal invasion of Iraq was a roaring success... that would be rewriting history. Pull me up all you want, but don't stoop to putting words in my mouth that I have clearly not said!