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#1 Post by OFSO » Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:54 am

Get your tickets now for the Tony Blair Rock Opera to be staged at the Turbine Theatre at Battersea Power Station, next year. The writers say they are being flexible with the facts. Can't wait!

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#2 Post by 4mastacker » Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:00 am

When I saw the title of the thread I thought you were going to announce his passing. Buggah!!
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#3 Post by Wodrick » Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:16 am

+1..
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#4 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:22 am

+2.....

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#5 Post by tango15 » Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:37 am

+3...

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#6 Post by barkingmad » Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:54 pm

+4 ! !

What chance the show will be a sellout?

One advantage though, of anyone you might intensely dislike (=hate), is that if they’re still alive, they have the ability to feel pain and catch a horrible degenerative disease before the final cut?! :-?

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#7 Post by unifoxos » Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:09 pm

When I saw the title of the thread I HOPED you were going to announce his passing. Buggah!!

Fixed that for you.
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Re: Tony Blair

#8 Post by barkingmad » Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:35 pm

Oh F F S ! ! (Am I allowed to say that?)

This horrible monster from the past keeps emerging from the Globalists’ primeval soup to keep selling his snake-oil solution to Britain’s problems and wants 70% of British yoof to attend university so’s they can spend a small fortune in acquiring a degree of dubious utility whilst diving into massive debt with a currently 12% interest rate;

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/tony-blair-w ... age/281501

Are our current and former leaders so deaf and insensitive that they assume we the plebs have forgotten how utterly useless they were when in the driving seat?

Luckily the supplies of aluminium and stainless steel are not affected by Ukraine and the recent ‘plague’, so here’s hoping the ‘Blade’ will be out there in sufficient quantities and locations for when civil unrest finally arrives on the streets due to energy costs and food shortages.

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Re: Tony Blair

#9 Post by Pinky the pilot » Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:44 am

I note that the petition to have his Knighthood rescinded is standing at 1,157,952 signatures as of about 5 minutes ago.

Won't make a skerrick of difference though, will it!
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#10 Post by llondel » Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:52 am

I have a degree, but I was lucky enough to get mine before he trashed the higher education sector, so not only did I have my tuition fees paid, I got a grant too. That clearly dates me somewhat. I'm also not a fan of Blair, he ought to keep quiet and shut up lest we do go after him for war crimes.

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Re: Tony Blair

#11 Post by OFSO » Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:38 am

Sir Tony Blair, as of last week.

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#12 Post by ribrash » Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:37 am

The critics like it.

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#13 Post by Pinky the pilot » Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:21 am

Re the petition I mentioned in Post #9; 1,161,590 signatures as of a few minutes ago.

Yup...didn't make a skerrick of difference!
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Re: Tony Blair

#14 Post by OFSO » Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:28 am

I'm sending my medals back in protest....

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#15 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 13, 2022 3:06 pm

OFSO wrote:
Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:28 am
I'm sending my medals back in protest....
I am sending them my underpants in protest.
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Re: Tony Blair

#16 Post by OFSO » Mon Jun 13, 2022 4:50 pm

I would suggest DHL. I've a grudge against them.

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Re: Tony Blair

#17 Post by barkingmad » Sat Jul 29, 2023 7:52 pm

Meanwhile, back to the thread topic;

"Is Tony Blair a Net Zero Sceptic?

In the midst of all the Tory battles over carbon targets, Tony Blair has thrown something of a curveball, questioning the efficacy of Britain’s carbon-cutting focus. As China’s emissions surge, he suggests leveraging the U.K.’s financial strengths to aid the global energy transition instead. The Telegraph has more.

Rishi Sunak might not have expected Sir Tony Blair to emerge as a Net Zero sceptic. …

“It’s the single biggest global challenge, right, and Britain should play its part in that. But its part frankly is going to be less to do with Britain’s emissions. I mean, one year’s rise in China’s emissions would outscore the whole of Britain’s emissions for a year,” the former Labour leader said in a magazine interview.

He said “it shouldn’t be” an excuse to slack off on cutting emissions, but added that cutting our own carbon should not be the main focus:

“Don’t ask us to do a huge amount when frankly whatever we do in Britain is not really going to impact climate change,” he said. …

Instead, he suggests Britain should play to its economic strengths: finance.

As an alternative to the current row over who should pay what and how much heat pumps cost, it might seem refreshing to have a suggestion that we can sell something to the rest of the world.

It also differs from suggestions the U.K. should try to outcompete the U.S. and EU in throwing massive subsidies at building green industries in an effort to catch up with China’s head start.

“The number one issue today – and this is where Britain could play a part – is how do you finance the energy transition?” he asked.

“Because, basically, the developed world’s emissions are going down, but the developing world’s are going up. These countries have got to grow, so how do you finance the transition? Secondly, how do you accelerate the technology?”

When it comes to Britain’s potential advantages in greening the world economy, climate specialists suspect the U.K.’s financial edge could be valuable, but only alongside pressure to cut emissions further.

“We have all of these comparative advantages here, and we are kind of frittering them away a bit,” says Laurie Laybourn, an environmental policy researcher.

“The U.K. reducing its emissions, whether or not they are bigger or smaller than China, is a way of focusing our agenda on maximising those amazing capabilities we have in Britain, like our financial services, and that we are amazingly good at inventing things.”


Reverse ferrets* are expected in relation to the 'plague' and the total bollocks spouted by the great and the good over the previous 3 years on that disastrous con, but I admit this one took me by surprise!

*For our foreign readers, here is a guide to the phrase which hopefully explains it's usage;

http://worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-rev1.htm

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