Jumbo-Sized Freebie

The farewell tour of the 'Tony-and-Cherie Blair-freebie' around the globe to countries we've never even heard of, in a favourite (hired) aircraft that must bring back memories of earlier days, a Boeing 777 (apparently £100,000 a day - DA), for the six weeks, should keep us all entertained.

Why would he feel the need for such a large aircraft? And what might it carry on board. The contents of Fort Knox? All the free gifts, including a collection of watches?

This amounts to the

BIGGEST

ego trip of all time, surely. A really major freebie. A very, very expensive freebie. Just about the largest aircraft flying. But, of course, they're worth it. And what's the justifaction for granting such an expenditure (£100,000/day for 6 weeks is over £4m and that excludes any other (undefined) expenses. And the entire entourage - DA)?

Nice 'junket-jolly' for hangers-on. How many hospitals could that build or doctors and nurses funded properly? Important things, unlike the Blairs swanning off around the globe with 'friends' at our expense.

Pretty insignificant sum though

+£4,000,000 for 42 days

when put up against the Olympic Games' disaster-in-the-making.

+£9,300,000,000 for 16 days

This is a calculation at a time of
pre-recession (2009)

£9,300 millions (16 days) = £581.25 millions per day

Greatly in excess of

£0.5 billion every day

vs

£4 millions (42 days) = £95,000 per day

Long-term projects that are really important. Blair starts creating the mess then clears off taking all the credit for the doomed success. But he'll be gone by 2012. Where? Back to his home planet (certainly not Earth), but who really cares?

Hopefully, by 27th June, 2007.

However, this trip will involve the best hotels, food and wine. Try and swing that hypocrisy with the G8-Summit. That's probably quite easy. Now try convincing the starving in Africa, Tony.

Starts today:

6-8th June 2007

Who's starving? Where are they?

Most people (especially Americans) don't even know where littl'ol England is and it could be just about lost in Florida. But, best of everything for Blair and his ilk. What a laughing stock it makes of this country, though. A world-wide joke with this pair imagining they are so important. It's surprising that the Boeing 777 (American, of course) is BIG enough to contain the combined egos.

Is Blair going to Zimbabwe to say farewell to Mugabe? Pop on over to Iraq to say farewell to the Iraqi people. A few days in Iran, Lebanon, Israel. Every country touched by Blair: to say farewell.

He'd soon realise where he's not wanted. Everywhere. Just don't come back. But...

...where is he going to stay, eventually. The lucrative (nice word that and derives from 'the filthy lucre' and connotations of Devil worship) lecture circuit. It still stetches my powers of imagination as to who'd want to listen to this man speaking.

No doubt the tour will include (at the end) a 'flying visit' to UQ (aka UK). Could just be a touch-and-go landing. Enough time to give us all a royal-type wave. Through a window. Wonder what the response might be...

After 27th June, 2007 (that's very soon, as today is already 6th June, 2007) even Dubya won't remember Blair.

Won't Blair go? Somewhere. Almost like the disease that keeps on returning. It would seem the 10-year comfort zone has brought on mega-delusions, really BIG TIME.

BIG TIME

Isn't his planned exit strategy, months in preparation, working? I can imagine some nasty things involved in that.

I never favoured Blair and like him even less today. And that is less than the day before and so on.

Go away. Please, go away to that elephant's graveyard where ex-pms presumably go. If you never 'grace' these shores again, can I assume you've really gone? Where I don't care, you're not here to exist in the mess you've created for the rest of us, although the legacy is Gordon Brown.

Never to be seen or heard of again?

• Pigs don't fly, but they continue to feed better and better at the deepening trough.