We are standing on the tarmac in a corner of Rostock airport waiting for Tony
Blair who is about to join us by helicopter after his meeting with Vladimir Putin. He will hold a brief press conference before jetting off to London. Except No10 don't want you to know that last bit. They have asked the telly guys to point their cameras away from the PM's chartered BA jet. Why? Because, we are told, they don't want pictures of Mr Blair in front of a polluting plane so soon after. He signed a 'deal' on climate change. So he's walking home?
Anyone care to watch BBC News and ITN tonight and report back? Me? I'll take care of SKY as I will be on their paper review programme at 11.30pm.
At about 5.30, they were showing a BA jet taking off on News24.
ReplyDeleteMore interesting was the array of guests commenting on both the climate change announcement and the recycled aid package - they were universally ctical.
And rightly so.
Wonder if Blair flew on one of those manky old Sea Stallions the Luftwaffe has to fly or a piece of museum crap the RAF gets to fly.
ReplyDeleteIf Blair had anything about him he'd fly EasyJet instead of chartering a BA jet when he expects the Royal Family to fly economy
I just wish Brown would impose a Control Order on Blair
So as long as he's seen to be green it doesn't matter that he's not?
ReplyDeleteHe and Al Gore are going to be a right double act.
His blog is great. Now if all news coverage was the same, the world would be a better place - are you watching Paddy Henessy and friends?
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, you can see him being banned from following Brown around if he carries on in this way
I'm not saying that Blair's swansong spinning about the environment shouldn't be given due consideration but does anyone agree with me that Donna Summer was the true and authentic High Priestess of Disco?
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying that Blair's swansong spinning shouldn't be given due consideration but does anyone agree with me that Donna Summer was the true and authentic High Priestess of Disco?
ReplyDeleteWhy has he given up walking on water?
ReplyDeleteits in his blood.
ReplyDeletewait until he leaves office. it will be like a Beckham toru forever!
Why does he bother? Doesn't he realise he's come to the end of the runway?
ReplyDeleteThe tax dodging pop star Bono has been on News 24 most of the day informing us mere tax payers how our government should spend our money.
ReplyDeleteWhy does the media think that he is entitled to the Microphone?
Blair Force one.
ReplyDeleteIn the small hours of the Friday morning following the General election in 2005, Blair and about 50 hangers on took a large plane from the north of England to Luton airport (about 150 miles?).
I have the tapes which include the BBC team's disbelief at this event. Of course the BBC never showed them again and I can't work out how to get my tapes onto U Tube.
Where did the money come from for this Charter plane?
talking about flights and spinning, I just herad the excellent speech on doughty street by Prof Starkey where he made the point that torture is illegal in the UK and has been for a few hundred years and that therefore "our osition on torture is clear" and "britain signed the convention on humen righs etc etec" are irrelevent smokescreens used by politicians to evade the fact that torture flights were allowed by the UK in direct convravention of our own law.
ReplyDeleteThis raises a very interesting point because i for one upon hearing in parliamnet "we adhere and support the international blah treaty on blah" means it is a political convention that todays lawyers can interpret as they see fit. ie ineffective rubbish. Had i heard "we are bound by existing UK domestic law which forbids any kind of torture" i would have a different view of the obvious crime committed by bliar in allowing torture flight. if this is indeed the case he should be charged under UK law and he cannot then hide behind EU investigations etc
I wonder how many other modern "conventions" serve to distract from explicit existing laws???
'fraid I only glimpsed the BBC news and Newsnight for as soon as whingeing Bob ( the ragged trousered multi-millionaire
ReplyDeletecapitalist ) Geldorf and that other smirking unshaven rich as Croesus capitalist berk Bono of the orange shades appeared . . . in an instant I was watching BB on C4. Can't stand either of those two scruffy hypocrites .. Like Billy Bragg et al . . . each is a self publicist and confidence trickster. It's about time the BBC realised this. With THEIR monies why not construct hospitals, orphanages, schools,etc.. At the moment it seems both these charlatans have short arms and deep pockets.
so the next obvious question is why hasnt bliar been charged under UK law for the torture flights?
ReplyDeleteuntil we start making the politicians obey our own law what chance of representative democracy.
eg why hasnt jowell been charged under the obtaining money by deception act for knowingly misleading the public and parliament over the cost of the olympics. when trafalgar square was full of people cheering she had a report that said costs were 5bn.
im getting sick of these evil money grabbers
lets remember that if we break the law we go to jail. if they break the law they still get paid!
ReplyDeletethey wonder why control orders and illegals wars fuel domestic terrorism......one rule for us and one for them.
Rendition
ReplyDeleteMr. Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 25 April 2007, Official Report,
column 1119W, on rendition, what arrangements exist for notification of landings by non-military state aircraft
at civilian airfields. [135256]
Mr. Ingram [holding answer 1 May 2007]: The MOD is only responsible for flight clearance arrangements for
foreign military aircraft entering and leaving UK airspace, and for civil aircraft using MOD airfields.
Arrangements for aircraft from foreign non-military agencies and Departments transiting UK airspace or landing
at UK civil airfields are the responsibility of the relevant counterpart UK Government Department.
THIS IS THE STANDARD OF RESPONSE FROM PARLIAMENT - when will they ever come clean and tell the truth??
get this bloke ingram, who is deliberately avoiding giving an answer to what we all know to be true in court of law and see if he gives the same answer to a judge....
The last few posts have been posted by the same guy. If you want to blog go somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteWe get the idea, you didn't like the rendition flights. Tough. So what? A few murdering scumbags got tortured. Maybe some of them died. Good. But you expect me to waste my time and energy worrying about this human refuse. Get real. If only the likes of you spent so long worrying about the decent people being killed by this scum, then the war on terror would have been won.
Silence the Fifth Column Iain.
I would bet that bliars average speed
ReplyDeleteover 10 yrs is somewhere near 300mph
considering how often he flys.
Have they found our poor six lost sheep wandering the world with their control orders ?
ReplyDeleteThey should have dropped a crisp packet then we'd have their fingerprints and DNA
i will continue to help out national security for 600 quid
ReplyDeleteON a lighter note, has anyone read Alexander Chancellor's 'grumpy old man' column in the Guardian about being subjected to a singing airline pilot [Come Fly With Me, since you ask] while travelling with American Airlines. An absolute classic, and over on the Guardian's 'Comment is free'. Highly recommended..
ReplyDeleteThe only interest I have in Blair now - other than wishing him a disabling incident (an accident would be nice, but intentional harm would be more exciting) - is, does he have the legal power to sign away our country to the EU constitution?
ReplyDeleteHe promised - ha ha1 - a referendum. Surely his signature on this piece of vile rubbish cannot be legal as he has not fulfilled his own condition of a referendum?
What can we do about it?
Can he really destroy our ancient rights and shovel 60m Britons into the maw of Europe without their permission? What can we do?