The Blair Rich Project

[michael]

(See what I did there with the title? Awesome!!)

Anyway...

Blair will receive a severance package from the state worth some £300,000 a year.

Thanks to some astute lobbying by other ex-PMs, Blair will get a car, a police driver and round-the-clock special branch protection.

He will also receive an immediate prime-ministerial pension of almost £64,000 a year as well as a further £84,000 to run his office - on top of what he makes as an MP

Crikey!

I always thought it worked a bit like footballers and pop stars, you make loads while you are in the spotlight and have to invest carefully to ensure you have cash when nobody gives a toss about you... seems this isn't the case for him (and I guess other MPs?).

Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6233470.stm

A huge contrast to Winston Churchill but this made me laugh:

Tony is obsessed with the idea of becoming a roving envoy who would seek to reconcile the Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam

Bless.

[colsoop]

:rolleyes: Should just about cover his mortgage repayments :p

[AndyT]

So that's 448k per annum. + his twat wifes income. 750k a year. Not too shabby is it?:(
Oops sorry thats on top of his other pay. Undisclosed so gotta be another 150k a year.
600k a year.

[baldy]

yeah and were all paying for that out of our tax

[michael]

yeah and were all paying for that out of our tax

Plus a similar amount for Major, Hague, Thatcher.... and all the other MP types that get this kind of cash.

[MONKEYmark]

Plus a similar amount for Major, Hague, Thatcher.... and all the other MP types that get this kind of cash.
and we have to get a crappy 2.5% pay rise when inflation is more.having to work harder to keep things going.
they all same why dont people wake up to whats going on in this country.:rolleyes:

[dangerous brain]

You can't beat em so why not join them. You only need third dan level lying skills to start and can hone them using various governmental official sources to bolster them to a tenth dan level.

[Havard]

Hey, come on!! He's earned it........:D It takes a lot of skill to be such a cnut and make such a complete balls of the country!!

H.

[garethr]

I like this quote in the BBC article:
"He will no longer receive secret intelligence reports and papers and briefings which tell him what is really going on - both in Britain and the rest of the world."

I thought he didn't receive those anyway -- hence the Iraq cock-up :)