munnki
13 Dec 2009, 11:32 PM
Well... unless Blair (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/08/tony-blair-formaldehyde-speech)actually has a deep inner love for formaldehyde I think we may now know how much it costs to get him to say whatever the fuck you want him to.
When you're being paid a reported £90,000 for a 20-minute speech, it's only common sense that you heap praise on your generous hosts and display exceptional interest in their cause. So it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to students of Tony Blair's post-Downing Street career that the former prime minister did his homework on formaldehyde and other fascinating byproducts of methanol's industrial process ahead of a speech to open a new methanol power plant in Azerbaijan.
Here's what he said to a gathering of the country's great and good last week. "To be honest, until I looked at the list of what formaldehyde does, I had no idea of how many parts of my life were governed by the existence of this thing. When I go back home, I will tell my nine-year-old boy: 'Stop all other studies and concentrate on formaldehyde and you will be fine!'"
So... what say we rent Blair out to say 'I lied about Iraq. There is no God. I stand for nothing.'.... Even if he annunciates each word painfully slowly, I reckon the max it would cost is 10,000.
When you're being paid a reported £90,000 for a 20-minute speech, it's only common sense that you heap praise on your generous hosts and display exceptional interest in their cause. So it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to students of Tony Blair's post-Downing Street career that the former prime minister did his homework on formaldehyde and other fascinating byproducts of methanol's industrial process ahead of a speech to open a new methanol power plant in Azerbaijan.
Here's what he said to a gathering of the country's great and good last week. "To be honest, until I looked at the list of what formaldehyde does, I had no idea of how many parts of my life were governed by the existence of this thing. When I go back home, I will tell my nine-year-old boy: 'Stop all other studies and concentrate on formaldehyde and you will be fine!'"
So... what say we rent Blair out to say 'I lied about Iraq. There is no God. I stand for nothing.'.... Even if he annunciates each word painfully slowly, I reckon the max it would cost is 10,000.