B-Liar's book "A journey to line my own pockets" (subtitled "A journey to feed my own vanity") is already half price - in both WH Smith and Waterstones.

... dump bins by Friday ?

... pound shops by Monday ?

When it reaches a POUND I will buy it !!! By Christmas I reckon.

Wonder if he mentions those who have suffered because of his policies?

What about those wrongly convicted because juries and the defence have much of the evidence hidden from them?

We all talk about his foreign policy disasters,but what about those closer to home?

Too many questions hang over him,and where are the answers?

In The Know wrote:
B-Liar's book "A journey to line my own pockets" (subtitled "A journey to feed my own vanity") is already half price - in both WH Smith and Waterstones.

... dump bins by Friday ?

... pound shops by Monday ?

All best sellers are "half price". The price printed on the cover is total fiction - even on non-fiction books. The "RPI" thing should be banned.

It's as stupid as "half price strawberries" in every supermarket. Half of WHAT price?

Well I've bought it and am reading it - it's shorter than 65 My Life So Far but his photos are far less amusing and I suspect most people would enjoy my book much more!

dixie wrote:

All best sellers are "half price". The price printed on the cover is total fiction - even on non-fiction books. The "RPI" thing should be banned.

It's as stupid as "half price strawberries" in every supermarket. Half of WHAT price?

Yes ...it is a marketing ploy - but I don't recall Mrs Thatcher's books ever being half price !

If they felt (esp with the marketing hype !) that they could have got more, they would.

Its such a large book its price will hardly cover the cost of the trees!

No ... when you add it all up, it's half price because thats all its worth (if you want to sell any)

I paid half price at WHS.

I'm about half way through and it's OK but not as amusing as Mandelson's.

a man in denial.

What he justifies is what the Nazis were convicted for at Nuremberg...manufacturing reasons to invade Poland / Iraq.

We have learnt nothing since the greatest calamity 60 years ago.

Latest review thoughts - not good.

Cool Viz-style "Top Tip" doing the rounds on Facebook:

"BRIGHTEN UP YOUR DAY by moving at least one of Tony Blair's books to the crime section in your local book shop"

I must admit - I liked Tony Blair a lot when I met him (no, he doesn't mention me) when he was Shadow Home Secretary; I find him a fascinating character; I think he has a lot of charm and is a terrific communicator but this book is so shallow, so obvious and in many ways so crass - there are bits that make you laugh and then you find yourself thinking "that's why he put it in" - that I'm really starting to dislike him as I read the book; exactly the opposite of the Mandelson book which won me over to Peter.

reading in the Mail that he says he found Bush one of the smartest leaders he met !!..good grief

It was the booze that ruined him - like many other alcoholics he became detached from reality and deluded. Now he is just an old soak using his considerable talents ( Such as with Andrew Marr last night ) to try and create a web of lies for the mistakes he knows he made as Prime Minister.

Blair gave away the trust of the people who had elected him and sunk it into a bottle where any goodness he had drowned in his own self pity and his own lack of confidence.

Like many musical geniuses and sportsmen he lost it. Blair should be considered with George Best and Gazza in the same way - wonderful people who allowed an addiction to undermine their character and talent until all that was left was unattractive and hollow.

I actually feel very sorry for him. No amount of money and riches can ever make up for what he has lost. Does he say whether he is STILL drinking heavily - because he still looks ill on TV ?

JK2006 wrote:
I must admit - I liked Tony Blair a lot when I met him (no, he doesn't mention me) when he was Shadow Home Secretary;

Are you sure he was Shadow Home Sec ? He says in the book that prior to becoming PM he had never had a government job (perhaps he means "in government" rather than "in opposition" ?)

"So I was amazed as I stood staring at Blair's memoirs today, because BAE does not even appear in the index. The BAE bosses who influenced Blair so much - Dick Evans, Mike Turner, Dick Olver - are also absent from the index. So is the Serious Fraud Office. Saudi Arabia appears, with six references. I looked them up. As usual, Blair is complimentary about the vicious Saudi dictatorship, but none of the references to Saudi Arabia mention arms sales.

The arms trade was one of the greatest blots on Blair's premiership, second perhaps only to the invasion of Iraq. BAE's influence over Blair was the worst example of the corporate power that Blair encouraged and which has done so much to undermine democracy. It is a measure of Blair's warped priorities that he doesn't even bother to mention these issues."


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