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Blair donation: Guilt or Charity?

Blair donation: Guilt or Charity?

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Personally I believe Blair's donation (circa £5 million) is a genuinely charitable gesture and the "Blood Money" gibes are out of order.

What do you think?

This is one Brits opinion:-

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Why is it relevant why Tony Blair donated a large sum of money?

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Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Why is it relevant why Tony Blair donated a large sum of money?
What is the relevance of that question to this thread?

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Do we only discuss US politics here?????????????????

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Do we only discuss US politics here?????????????????
I'll discuss anything, but I'm sorry, I just don't think this is a very interesting question.

Blair did something that will hopefully help people and he gave some of his own wealth to do it. Congratulations to him. I see no profit in even a slight belittling of the deed by questioning his motives.

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Originally posted by sh76
I'll discuss anything, but I'm sorry, I just don't think this is a very interesting question.

Blair did something that will hopefully help people and he gave some of his own wealth to do it. Congratulations to him. I see no profit in even a slight belittling of the deed by questioning his motives.
I agree with you but the British press do not.
Curious as to what others think.

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
I agree with you but the British press do not.
Curious as to what others think.
Sounds like a political smear job.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Sounds like a political smear job.
The British press' forte.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Sounds like a political smear job.
As a politician Blair lied and misled the UK parliamnent and people about Iraq, with disastrous consequnces, allowed Brown as Chancellor to wreck the economy, failed to fulfil any of the numerous promises he made to improve the State-contolled public services, and finally left Brown to face the music.
Let us wait to see how much the British Legion eventaully receives from Blair, the philanthropist.

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Blair came through on certain constitutional changes and I think that is uncontroversially to his credit.

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Originally posted by FMF
Blair came through on certain constitutional changes and I think that is uncontroversially to his credit.
Deserves credit with a track record like his???
Alright for you having bunked off to Indodesia, after "having travelled the world, man".

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Originally posted by Sartor Resartus
Deserves credit with a track record like his???
Deserves credit for the constitutional reforms he pushed through, as promised. That's what historians will probably be interested in in 100 years from now seeing as Boom and Bust and ill-judged wars are nothing new and will probably be ever present.

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Personally I believe Blair's donation (circa £5 million) is a genuinely charitable gesture and the "Blood Money" gibes are out of order.

What do you think?

This is one Brits opinion:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4THfOK5o3zg
Charitable guilt.

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Originally posted by Sartor Resartus
Deserves credit with a track record like his???
Alright for you having bunked off to Indodesia, after "having travelled the world, man".
He's sat in a "bed sit "in Milton Keynes !( or she is ?)😉😉

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Originally posted by Proper Knob
Charitable guilt.
I reckon Blair is too self-consciously righteous a character to feel guilt. He may well feel regret or frustration about his legacy, thought.