A recent opinion poll named Tony Blair as Britain's most-hated Prime Minister ever. And it's unlikely that this will help repair his reputation: he's taking on a new role as an economic adviser to Egypt's new strongman President el-Sisi. As one of the readers commenting on this report in The Guardian put it, "haven't these people suffered enough?"
When Blair was PM, he took next to no interest in economic matters. He left that part of the job to Gordon Brown, and we all know how well that worked out. Now he's clambering between the sheets with a regime that came to power after a military coup against an elected government, a regime that has become an international pariah thanks to the jailing of a group of journalists on transparently trumped-up charges.
But none of this seems to matter to Blair, the venal, mendacious, hypocritical, money-grubbing, influence-peddling, warmongering....oh! It looks as if words don't fail me after all!
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