BBC News: Blair ‘in the clear’ over holiday

“A watchdog has concluded Tony Blair did nothing wrong by failing to declare a holiday with a tobacco industry figure, Downing Street has said.”

Well, what the hell were you expecting? Calls for his resignation? The caption under the photo of Blair in this BBC piece says, “Tony Blair’s holidays are often a subject of controversy”. The use understatement was the most shocking part of the item.

But at least we can revel once more at how much class the Blairs have. Freebies from Big Tobacco, open necked Burberry shirts with a nipped-and-tucked Silvio Berlosconi, a gratis sojourn to Egypt (they’ve since been shamed into forking out like everybody else) with a blind eye turned to the country’s human rights record. Cliff Richard?

Like I said: classy.