Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret:

[snagglepuss]

Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq.

The former Prime Minister tried to keep the public in the dark over his dealings with South Korean oil firm UI Energy Corporation.

Mr Blair - who has made at least £20million since leaving Downing Street in June 2007 - also went to great efforts to keep hidden a £1million deal advising the ruling royal family in Iraq's neighbour Kuwait.

In an unprecedented move, he persuaded the committee which vets the jobs of former ministers to keep details of both deals from the public for 20 months, claiming it was commercially sensitive. The deals emerged yesterday when the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments finally lost patience with Mr Blair and decided to ignore his objections and publish the details.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259030/Tony-Blairs-secret-dealings-South-Korean-oil-firm-UI-Energy-Corp.html#ixzz0ieW5RqPd

[gratuitous]

1. Wow, Judas got only 30 pieces of silver

Which is probably why he hanged himself. If he'd have gotten 20 million pounds, he could have lived like Tony "the poodle" Blair.

[snagglepuss]

7. A great quote from Amanda Patel opinion piece. (Daily Mail )

"Our former Prime Minister famously claimed he felt the hand of history on his shoulder. What we couldn't see was that he also had his hand in the till."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1259312/AMANDA-PLATELL-His-moral-compass-No-Blair-follows-greedometer.html

[LeftishBrit]

14. Though Blair is slime, so is Amanda Platell

(not Patel! - that sounds too non-white and non-middle-England for the anti-immigrant Daily Mail - though in fact Platell *is* an immigrant, from Australia).

She is a right-winger, a homophobe, and a former press secretary to the Tory politician William Hague.

[snagglepuss]

16. That may be so however that might be exactly the reason she is so bang

on in her remarks about Blair.

[Peregrine Took]

2. I never thought I would have more contempt for anyone than "W" - now I have

found my prize candidate. Repulsive!

[snagglepuss]

8. I read somewhere else that W was probably lining up these deals for

Blair when Blair still held office.

[malaise]

3. Tony Blair is a war criminal and he's also undiluted

Scum. :puke:

[Solly Mack]

9. Ayup

[snagglepuss]

10. "He's driven by a greedometer. There's nothing this 'man of principle'

wants more than to join the ranks of the multi-millionaires he idolises. He doesn't want respect, just riches."




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1259312/AMANDA-PLATELL-His-moral-compass-No-Blair-follows-greedometer.html

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. Wow, poodling really pays! n/t

[metapunditedgy]

5. You know, a lot of people died so Blair could make that money.

Even more are injured or otherwise suffering on.

[snagglepuss]

6. Check out this statistic

"since the Western invasion brought U.S. energy firms into Iraq, its government predicts a 300 per cent increase in oil production, which has already leapt from 300,000 barrels a day after the first Gulf War to 2.5 million barrels. There's money being made by the sackful here, and hundreds of thousands of pounds of it is going to the man who made the whole bonanza possible in the first place."









http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1259312/AMANDA-PLATELL-His-moral-compass-No-Blair-follows-greedometer.html

[Spazito]

11. He is scum, utter scum n/t

[LeftishBrit]

15. Very true (sigh).

[Grand Taurean]

12. Being a NeoCon man-servant does pay quite well.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Here's a more reliable source for the story

http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:26hiaowD4L0J:www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/17/tony-blair-cash-south-korea-oil+South+Korean+oil+firm+UI+Energy+Corporation.+Blair&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

The Daily Mail are unreliable RW scumbags who oppose New Labour from the *right*, so one always needs to check their stories; but this one seems to be true.

Blair is just a slimeball, quite generally speaking.