Former PM renews his acquaintance with Colonel Gaddafi with a phone call. (Don't worry Cherie, it was reverse charge.)
Age: 57. A jolly youthful 57.
Appearance: Oddly sparing for a Middle East peace envoy, given the current situations in the ? uh ? Middle East.
Yes, I thought that. But I gather he's popped up again now. What's he doing? He's made a phone call to Colonel Gaddafi. (Reverse charge, probably. Can't see Cherie letting the landline be used for long-distance.)
Saying what? Saying, "Hey man, why not stop being so uncool and just, you know, like, step down?"
Yes, I can see that our former PM would be moved to action by the threat of some egomaniac using unwarranted force against an Arab people. Well, quite.
So Blair thinks one phone call from him will be enough to turn prominent mentalist Gaddafi from his current calculation of "better to kill or be killed by my own people"? Is he now as bonkers as the colonel? Hey, man, blessed are the peacemakers, 'kay? And anyway, they do have a personal connection.
I thought Our Tone had denied the Gaddafi family's claims to friendship with him? Well, yes, you would, wouldn't you? But Tony probably harbours some warm feelings since he was in charge when Libya agreed to moderate some of its policies and preferred modes of government in 2004.
Oh, yes, that's right. That was in the wake of the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, wasn't it? What's your point?
It was when Gadaffi looked around and saw what the UK was prepared to do to bigger, better equipped countries and decided that dictatorial discretion was the better part of valour, badmouthed terrorism for a bit and let some oil companies back in. Doubtless one of the many positive ramifications Tony saw when he conceived his plan to follow wherever Bush led. Honestly, the glass is always half empty with some of you folk, isn't it? I sometimes worry that the poor man is doomed to be misunderstood forever.
Do say: "I accept the charges and accede to the request!"
Don't say: "Tony? Tony who?"
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/28/pass-notes-tony-blair
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