Blair trousers £8 million a year but makes no profit...

[Ayahuasca]

...from a new contract with a dubious corruption-ridden foreign jurisdiction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blai...

Obviously doing it from the goodness of his heart, bless him.

Worth £50 million, they say. Good on him.

[Jasandjules]

Ayahuasca said:

Worth £50 million, they say. Good on him.

Really? I hope he dies a horrible and painful death for what he did to our country.

I trust he's giving away over 90% of his vast fortune to the poor and spreading the wealth.

[Laurel Green]

Jasandjules said:

Really? I hope he dies a horrible and painful death for what he did to our country.

I don't usually do pluses but, on this occasion +1.

[DJRC]

He did fk all to the country.

The country did what it did to the country on the social and domestic front. The chap with the purse strings did what he did on the economic front.

Some of you must live very different lives to me if any politician apart from the chap with the purse strings affects your life very much.

[Lost_BMW]

DJRC said:

He did fk all to the country.

The country did what it did to the country on the social and domestic front. The chap with the purse strings did what he did on the economic front.

Some of you must live very different lives to me if any politician apart from the chap with the purse strings affects your life very much.

Cloud fking cuckoo land with brass fronted knobs on.

Are you mental? This linked our nation ever more to Bush and his wars for oil against terror, caused us to be even more hated and at risk from a large proportion of the world, linked public services to his mates and funders in private industry saddling us with ludicrous PFI bills whilst enriching his allies in Capita et al and built a bloody big nest he's now busy feathering using our national reputation as the spit and twigs.

Who do you think appointed Clown as chancellor of purse strings and allowed him to stay there fking or economy, for his own cowardly and expedient political interests. Not Bliar?

You are Cheri Blair aicmfp.

[turbobloke]

Lost_BMW said:

DJRC is Cheri Blair aicmfp.

[Zaxxon]

DJRC said:

He did fk all to the country.

The country did what it did to the country on the social and domestic front. The chap with the purse strings did what he did on the economic front.

Some of you must live very different lives to me if any politician apart from the chap with the purse strings affects your life very much.

I hope you not allowed to vote due to your mental issues. You clearly have no memory or concept of how Blair fked our country and should be in jail for fraud and deception.

[nelly1]

Ooh, this is going to be good.

[Heartworm]

DJRC said:

He did fk all to the country.

The country did what it did to the country on the social and domestic front. The chap with the purse strings did what he did on the economic front.

Some of you must live very different lives to me if any politician apart from the chap with the purse strings affects your life very much.

Pleasant not to hear someone from the right on pistonheads, I find it hard to believe any other government would have made anything better, especially with the apparant progress of the last 12 months.

[Lost_BMW]

nelly1 said:

Ooh, this is going to be good.

Couldn't end well really, could it. Trolling par excellence I suspect...

[Lost_BMW]

Heartworm said:

Pleasant not to hear someone from the right on pistonheads, I find it hard to believe any other government would have made anything better, especially with the apparant progress of the last 12 months.

"Enters from stage left..."

[turbobloke]

Lost_BMW said:

Heartworm said:

Pleasant not to hear someone from the right on pistonheads, I find it hard to believe any other government would have made anything better, especially with the apparant progress of the last 12 months.

"Enters from stage left..."

"Forgetting the boos that Bliar got from what's left of the left at the Wallace Gumpfest..."

[elster]

Lost_BMW said:

DJRC said:

He did fk all to the country.

The country did what it did to the country on the social and domestic front. The chap with the purse strings did what he did on the economic front.

Some of you must live very different lives to me if any politician apart from the chap with the purse strings affects your life very much.

Cloud fking cuckoo land with brass fronted knobs on.

Are you mental? This linked our nation ever more to Bush and his wars for oil against terror, caused us to be even more hated and at risk from a large proportion of the world, linked public services to his mates and funders in private industry saddling us with ludicrous PFI bills whilst enriching his allies in Capita et al and built a bloody big nest he's now busy feathering using our national reputation as the spit and twigs.

Who do you think appointed Clown as chancellor of purse strings and allowed him to stay there fking or economy, for his own cowardly and expedient political interests. Not Bliar?

You are Cheri Blair aicmfp.

Sorry but give respect where it is due, his first term in office he did a lot of good.I'm saying this as a tory as well.

A lot of the bad came from Gordon Brown, and if you think the PM gets to choose his chancellor like picking teams for a football game you are sadly mistaken.

[turbobloke]

elster said:

Sorry but give respect where it is due, his first term in office he did a lot of good.I'm saying this as a tory as well.

Is this the same first term I remember?

Bliar gave his early blessing to former porn merchant A Campbell who was empowered to give orders to mandarins, this poisonous individual was a political appointee paid from public funds in the manner of a civil servant. That was a disgrace.

Bliar also gave us the Oooman Royts carp in the form now being abused by murderers and terrorists but filling his wife's pockets, along with the commie newt fancier in Bliar's recreated post of London Mayor, and the Millennium Dome.

Whether you blame the Clown or Bliar, he also presided over the introduction of 'no tax increases' or whatever the spin was that conned so many gullible people into voting for Bliar, and looked on as private pensions were wrecked by the fool next door.

1997
Mortgage interest relief cut
Pensions tax (payable tax credits abolished)
Health insurance taxed (income tax relief abolished)
Health insurance taxed again (IPT)
Fuel tax escalator up
Vehicle Excise Duty up
Tobacco duty escalator up
Stamp duty up for properties over £250,000
Limit carry back of trading losses to one year
Dividends on trading assets
Taxation of finance leasing
New Windfall Tax on utilities
Futures and options
VAT: cash accounting scheme

1998
Married couple's allowance cut
Tax on travel insurance up
Tax on casinos and gaming machines up
Fuel tax escalator brought forward
Tax on company cars up
Tax relief for foreign earnings abolished
Tax concession for certain professions abolished
Capital Gains Tax imposed on certain non-residents
Reinvestment relief restricted
Corporation Tax payments brought forward and ACT abolished
Higher stamp duty rates up
Hydrocarbon duties up
Additional diesel duties
Landfill Tax up
Exceptional increase in tobacco and alcohol duties
Amendments to offshore trusts
VAT: fuel scale charges

1999
NIC earnings limit raised
Married Couple's Allowance abolished
Mortgage tax relief abolished
IR35: Taxation of personal services companies
Company car business mileage allowances restricted
Tobacco duty escalator brought forward
Insurance Premium Tax up
Vocational Training Relief abolished
Employer NICs extended to all benefits in kind
VAT on some banking services up
Premiums paid to tenants by landlords taxed
Duty on minor oils up
Vehicle Excise Duties for lorries up
Landfill tax escalator introduced
Higher rates of stamp duty up again
Capital gains on sale of companies
Controlled Foreign Companies: taxation of dividends

2000
Tobacco duties up
Higher rates of stamp duty up again
Extra taxation of life assurance companies
Rules on Controlled Foreign Companies extended
Aggregates levy increased
Changes to double taxation relief
Rent factoring
Capital gains tax: use of trusts and offshore companies
VAT: capital asset disposals


Then, after that, it just got worse.

[thinfourth2]

Blair was bloody good at what he wanted to do and anyone who denies that is deluded

[Ozzie Osmond]

Lost_BMW said:

Cloud fking cuckoo land with brass fronted knobs on.

+1

Blair is a ghastly creature. He and Mandelson made Brown look like a mere beginner.

[Heartworm]

turbobloke said:

1997
Mortgage interest relief cut
Pensions tax (payable tax credits abolished)
Health insurance taxed (income tax relief abolished)
Health insurance taxed again (IPT)
Fuel tax escalator up
Vehicle Excise Duty up
Tobacco duty escalator up
Stamp duty up for properties over £250,000
Limit carry back of trading losses to one year
Dividends on trading assets
Taxation of finance leasing
New Windfall Tax on utilities
Futures and options
VAT: cash accounting scheme

1998
Married couple's allowance cut
Tax on travel insurance up
Tax on casinos and gaming machines up
Fuel tax escalator brought forward
Tax on company cars up
Tax relief for foreign earnings abolished
Tax concession for certain professions abolished
Capital Gains Tax imposed on certain non-residents
Reinvestment relief restricted
Corporation Tax payments brought forward and ACT abolished
Higher stamp duty rates up
Hydrocarbon duties up
Additional diesel duties
Landfill Tax up
Exceptional increase in tobacco and alcohol duties
Amendments to offshore trusts
VAT: fuel scale charges

1999
NIC earnings limit raised
Married Couple's Allowance abolished
Mortgage tax relief abolished
IR35: Taxation of personal services companies
Company car business mileage allowances restricted
Tobacco duty escalator brought forward
Insurance Premium Tax up
Vocational Training Relief abolished
Employer NICs extended to all benefits in kind
VAT on some banking services up
Premiums paid to tenants by landlords taxed
Duty on minor oils up
Vehicle Excise Duties for lorries up
Landfill tax escalator introduced
Higher rates of stamp duty up again
Capital gains on sale of companies
Controlled Foreign Companies: taxation of dividends

2000
Tobacco duties up
Higher rates of stamp duty up again
Extra taxation of life assurance companies
Rules on Controlled Foreign Companies extended
Aggregates levy increased
Changes to double taxation relief
Rent factoring
Capital gains tax: use of trusts and offshore companies
VAT: capital asset disposals


Then, after that, it just got worse.

I'm seeing a fair bit of good on the that list tbh.

[Ozzie Osmond]

thinfourth2 said:

Blair was bloody good at what he wanted to do and anyone who denies that is deluded

The catch was, he was doing it for himself and for nobody else. With God's help of course. The shallow inadequacies of the man are highlighted by his "conversion" to Roman Catholicism about 15 seconds after leaving 10 Downing St.

If it suited his interests IMO he'd be just as likely to turn up in a kippot or a turban.

[Eric Mc]

Blair's main sin was his utter disrespect for our traditional democratic processes. He seemed to think that by being smiley and affable ("Call me Tony") he could sneak in some of the most undemocratic reforms ever seen. He very nearly had an Enabling Act pushed through which would have removed the need for Parliamentary debate and voting on key legislation.

He disregarded his cabinet whenever possible and committed the country to war based on lies and deceit.

The guy was a wolf in sheeps clothing - extremely dangerous in my opinion.

[elster]

turbobloke said:

elster said:

Sorry but give respect where it is due, his first term in office he did a lot of good.I'm saying this as a tory as well.

Is this the same first term I remember?

Bliar gave his early blessing to former porn merchant A Campbell who was empowered to give orders to mandarins, this poisonous individual was a political appointee paid from public funds in the manner of a civil servant. That was a disgrace.

Bliar also gave us the Oooman Royts carp in the form now being abused by murderers and terrorists but filling his wife's pockets, along with the commie newt fancier in Bliar's recreated post of London Mayor, and the Millennium Dome.

Whether you blame the Clown or Bliar, he also presided over the introduction of 'no tax increases' or whatever the spin was that conned so many gullible people into voting for Bliar, and looked on as private pensions were wrecked by the fool next door.

1997
Mortgage interest relief cut
Pensions tax (payable tax credits abolished)
Health insurance taxed (income tax relief abolished)
Health insurance taxed again (IPT)
Fuel tax escalator up
Vehicle Excise Duty up
Tobacco duty escalator up
Stamp duty up for properties over £250,000
Limit carry back of trading losses to one year
Dividends on trading assets
Taxation of finance leasing
New Windfall Tax on utilities
Futures and options
VAT: cash accounting scheme

1998
Married couple's allowance cut
Tax on travel insurance up
Tax on casinos and gaming machines up
Fuel tax escalator brought forward
Tax on company cars up
Tax relief for foreign earnings abolished
Tax concession for certain professions abolished
Capital Gains Tax imposed on certain non-residents
Reinvestment relief restricted
Corporation Tax payments brought forward and ACT abolished
Higher stamp duty rates up
Hydrocarbon duties up
Additional diesel duties
Landfill Tax up
Exceptional increase in tobacco and alcohol duties
Amendments to offshore trusts
VAT: fuel scale charges

1999
NIC earnings limit raised
Married Couple's Allowance abolished
Mortgage tax relief abolished
IR35: Taxation of personal services companies
Company car business mileage allowances restricted
Tobacco duty escalator brought forward
Insurance Premium Tax up
Vocational Training Relief abolished
Employer NICs extended to all benefits in kind
VAT on some banking services up
Premiums paid to tenants by landlords taxed
Duty on minor oils up
Vehicle Excise Duties for lorries up
Landfill tax escalator introduced
Higher rates of stamp duty up again
Capital gains on sale of companies
Controlled Foreign Companies: taxation of dividends

2000
Tobacco duties up
Higher rates of stamp duty up again
Extra taxation of life assurance companies
Rules on Controlled Foreign Companies extended
Aggregates levy increased
Changes to double taxation relief
Rent factoring
Capital gains tax: use of trusts and offshore companies
VAT: capital asset disposals


Then, after that, it just got worse.

Delete all the ones that were to do with the chancellor, then rewrite that list.