Blair to donate memoir profits...

[strudel]

...to a sports centre for badly injured soldiers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10988478

Guilt issues?

[dreamz]

good gesture

least he can do

but he's still an ass

[FourWheelDrift]

Blood money.

[TuxRacer]

I guess there's no point buying another multi-million pound pad when you've got more than you can spend your time in already.

He's just trying to buy his way back from being a figure of hate. Too little, too late IMHO.

[bobbylondonuk]

Profits.....hmmmm.... Profits of the publisher is it not? The cost of paying Tony Liar lies with the publisher as the cost of publishing this book...so technically, Liar has already made his money!!!

[grumbledoak]

As far as I can tell, this 'story' is on thisislondon (leftie) and bbc (positively communist). Not exactly a shock that those two are trying to give the traitorous bd a bit of positive spin.

Let's see if it actually happens.

[TuxRacer]

grumbledoak said:

As far as I can tell, this 'story' is on thisislondon (leftie) and bbc (positively communist). Not exactly a shock that those two are trying to give the traitorous bd a bit of positive spin.

Top of the front page on BBC News.

Good luck finding a story on house prices falling as seems to have been everywhere else in the last couple of days.

[speedchick]

Hmm, profits you say? well I guess that all depends on if anyone actually buys the book!

[Pothole]

Catholic guilt for sure.

[dreamz]

speedchick said:

Hmm, profits you say? well I guess that all depends on if anyone actually buys the book!

no doubt top of the best seller list already
no company would pay out a few mil with the thought of will it actually sell.

everyone likes a bit of dirt and it comes no dirtier than in the world of politics.

[ellroy]

Pothole said:

Catholic guilt for sure.

Don't you tar us with that self serving twunt!

[grumbledoak]

dreamz said:

no doubt top of the best seller list already

Guess again. These memoirs normally sell a couple of thousand copies to journalists, then they're in the 99p bins or pulped. The big advances aren't in expectation of a profitable book.

[Northern Munkee]

... More fundamentally bankrupt gesture politics, designed to attempt to rehabilitate his public image. Worried about his legacy and how history will judge, I don't he has got a pang of newly converted catholic guilt.
Clearly it's going to be a snow job where he attempts to rewrite history, twist the chronology, and the facts to fit a version of the truth, that gets him off the hook (even if it's just in his own mind).

[FourWheelDrift]

grumbledoak said:

dreamz said:

no doubt top of the best seller list already

Guess again. These memoirs normally sell a couple of thousand copies to journalists, then they're in the 99p bins or pulped. The big advances aren't in expectation of a profitable book.

Just like Alan Partridge's book - http://www.meatpasty.co.uk/alanpartridge//multimed...

[Adrian W]

Call me a cynic, but if I had made all those millions I would be looking for a tax efficient way of minimising my liabilities

[Jasandjules]

The only way he can attone is if he committs seppuku.

[Pothole]

ellroy said:

Pothole said:

Catholic guilt for sure.

Don't you tar us with that self serving twunt!

I'm afflicted myself, just struck me that he's prolly picked it up along the way

[ellroy]

Pothole said:

ellroy said:

Pothole said:

Catholic guilt for sure.

Don't you tar us with that self serving twunt!

I'm afflicted myself, just struck me that he's prolly picked it up along the way

Shame he didn't pick up the Protestant honesty and work ethic piece along the way either. He'd be Buddhist next week if there was TV coverage in it. Twunt.

[dreamz]

grumbledoak said:

dreamz said:

no doubt top of the best seller list already

Guess again. These memoirs normally sell a couple of thousand copies to journalists, then they're in the 99p bins or pulped. The big advances aren't in expectation of a profitable book.

yeah but you need to consider too that in places like the usa blair is its poodle and i'm sure the book will sell alot more there than in the uk

[grumbledoak]

dreamz said:

yeah but you need to consider too that in places like the usa blair is its poodle and i'm sure the book will sell alot more there than in the uk

LMGTFY

http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/123442-page.htm...