The White House revealed yesterday that Tony Blair and George Bush have discussed the outgoing Prime Minister taking on a UN role as Middle East envoy.
A spokesman for the US President said the two leaders had considered the possibility of Mr Blair acting as a peace envoy role for the Middle East Quartet, comprising the US, the UN, Russia and the European Union.
The position has been vacant since the former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn quit the post in April last year. It would give Mr Blair a central role in efforts to secure peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Erm…well it’s not April first, so…Holy Fucking Shit On A Popemobile Whistling ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’. I know that Tom Lehrer said satire became obsolete when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace prize, but this is getting ridiculous.
21 June, 2007 at 3:37 am
Sardozy wants him to be the next EU president. I am about to pop some X, read up on the Tri-lateral commission and close the pod bay doors for good!
21 June, 2007 at 3:45 am
I heard that! This is awful he is going to get promoted, out of the range of voters, aaarrrghghg!
21 June, 2007 at 5:10 am
I think the Romans had a saying about that….didn’t really work for them, I doubt it will work for the EU or Europe in general.
21 June, 2007 at 9:29 am
The EU Commission? The Quartet? Two undemocratic and illegitimate institutions whose main purpose is to dictate conditions at those too stupid to recognise that the master knows best what’s good for them. Either way, it seems wholly appropriate for Tony Blair; where’s the irony?
22 June, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I think this is digging up the corpse of satire, killing it all over again, then having sex with the rotted carcass singing ‘Happy Xmas, war is over’. If he can only score head of human rights at the UN as well this would be a perfect hatrick.