If rumours are to be believed (and they sometimes are!) then Cherie Blair has been keeping a diary. Let's hope that she doesn't follow the example of Alastair Campbell and delay its publication. If she does she could be losing out on a huge amount of money. If Campbell had published his diaries within six months of stepping down as Blair's Director Communications he might have trousered up to £2 million from a publisher. But with every passing day, the value of his diaries is rapidly diminishing. Cherie is not known for being a shrinking violet. If indeed she has written contemperaneous daily diatribes her diaries could well command a huge advance. Perhaps not enough to pay off the mortgage on Connaught Square, but I suspect that money would only be one of motivations for publication. The main one is a desire to get back at the dour neighbour next door. Graphic Hat-tip Beau Bo D'or
Friday, February 02, 2007
Is Cherie Writing a Diary?
If rumours are to be believed (and they sometimes are!) then Cherie Blair has been keeping a diary. Let's hope that she doesn't follow the example of Alastair Campbell and delay its publication. If she does she could be losing out on a huge amount of money. If Campbell had published his diaries within six months of stepping down as Blair's Director Communications he might have trousered up to £2 million from a publisher. But with every passing day, the value of his diaries is rapidly diminishing. Cherie is not known for being a shrinking violet. If indeed she has written contemperaneous daily diatribes her diaries could well command a huge advance. Perhaps not enough to pay off the mortgage on Connaught Square, but I suspect that money would only be one of motivations for publication. The main one is a desire to get back at the dour neighbour next door. Graphic Hat-tip Beau Bo D'or
This could well be true Iain. She has form for blagging as long as your arm. An odious and grasping woman with no shame.
ReplyDeleteBut who the hell is interested in what she has to say? She is no Pepys or even a Clark/Channon. What are we to be treated to in Cherie's ghosted pages? New age nonsense or perhaps the frequent visits of the hand of history on Tony's shoulder? Big yawns all round.
We really are living through Blair's fin de siècle.
Iain you are wicked - throwing visions of money before such a silly & greedy woman ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh yes, she knows how to talk Iain, especially if she is getting paid for it!
ReplyDeleteWell that's a lie...
ReplyDeleteHmmm.. this sounds past its 'sell by date'. She has already flogged the dead horse which was 'Life in the Goldfish Bowl'. Albeit with a little help from her friends.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm not sure Campbell was ever that interested in 'memoirs'. He thought [wrongly as it transpired] that he would get far more money, for much less effort, by touring up and down the country with his 'one man show'. That seemed prescient, as it was indeed a 'one man audience' in most shows that were put on.
Cheer us up this Friday instead with your tales of derring-do in getting through the Blunkett autobiography - I feel some sort of special prize should be on offer - or you should have asked us to 'charity sponsor' you on this mammoth task !
"she could be losing out on a huge amount of money"
ReplyDeletecan't see her doing that
while we're re-using old graphics...
ReplyDeleteShe was a working girl, North of England way
Now she dreams of big fees in the USA
And if she would only listen, this .. is .. what .. we’d .. say
(Cue Thirties dance-band)
Cherie-pie, you are shameless and lazy
You need money like crazy
For your big London home
Oh Cherie-pie, your position is tragic
What’s become of the magic?
How’ll you service the loan?
You became a legend of the freebie scene
And now the thought of losing it
makes you weak in the knee (tee tee tee)
Oh Cherie-pie, if it’s driving you frantic
Sod off ‘cross the Atlantic
And just leave us alone
If Cherie Blair publishes a diary of the years in Downing Street, and those immediately before indeed, the Trash Library would be delighted to have a copy deposited.
ReplyDeleteWho would be interested in anything this fishwife had to scream about? A long, boring stream of self-justification, no doubt. Speaking of fish, how long did her 'Life in The Goldfish Bowl' stay on the shelves before it was remaindered? A couple of days? That long?
ReplyDeleteRe the Blunkett essay in self-serving tedium, come on, Iain! One final surge of energy and you'll be past the finish! You can do it!
Iain - this is the very memorable graphic you used at the time of the auctioning of the copy(of unknown origin) of the Hutton report, disgracefully signed by Cherie Blair and Campbell - how could you ever forget?
ReplyDeleteIain,
ReplyDeleteIt says Beau Bo D'or down the right hand side, if that helps...
BTW - I agree that Alastair Campbell's book won't sell now. Events, dear boy.
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ReplyDeleteJanuary 5th 2000
First day as a criminal Judge. Not a good start- I was stopped by an officious ticket inspector at Waterloo East Station for travelling without a ticket. Despite my protestations ("Do you know who I am? - I'm late for a court case"), I was given a £10 on-the-spot fine. Bloody man.
I hope Network rail won't sack him in 3 months time (for an unrelated disciplinary offence).
A compeling graphic BBD. It first appeared here at 8.38pm on 29 May 2006.
ReplyDeleteIf Alistair Campbell's diaries are anything like his "one man show" you would give up reading them after the first couple of pages.
ReplyDeleteI saw him "in action" two or three years ago in Oxford and, when some member of the audience answered him back, with a rather witty comment about Jo Moore, he totally lost it.
The very few funny stories he was able to tell (like the day John Prescott thumped a member of the public) were all recycled two days later on the Parkinson Show.
In all, he came across as a rather unhinged, unintelligent and spiteful boor of a man.
Just like we all thought he might be...
Thanks, Man of Steel. Well, no one will buy his book now, after the collapse of the most dangerous regime Britain has endured for 400 years, or perhaps ever.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what's going to happen to Tony Blair? If he has to resign in disgrace, his after-dinner speaking engagements will have as much allure as Alastair's book.
That will mean that dustbin for failed heads of government, Saudi Arabia.
Thanks Verity!
ReplyDeleteThe last time that I saw Alistair Campbell was in Browns restaurant in Oxford last autumn.
It's a mad busy place that will not take bookings on a Saturday evening. You turn up and wait in the bar until your table is called. No matter who you are / think you are / were.
Alistair Campbell had other ideas but, despite him making a call on his mobile to try to get round the system, left the restaurant somewhat red-faced.
I gave our waitress a really big tip to celebrate!
ContempORaneous; as someone who seems to have every e-gadget known to man (most of which mean nothing to me), why do you not have a spellcheck (or is it spell-check)? Come on, you no it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI take your response "fwtmdz" as an acronym for some crude riposte, which is also beyond me, but would simply say "fwtmdz" to you too.
Just shows that payback really is a bitch.
ReplyDeleteWill she be allowed to publish it if she has to do porridge with TB?
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