Insurance job takes Blair's earnings above £7m
David Hencke, Westminster correspondent
Tuesday January 29, 2008
The Guardian
Tony Blair is due to take his post-prime ministerial earnings to more than £7m this year following his appointment to a six-figure-salary job with Zurich Insurance, the Swiss financial firm, advising it on climate change.The company, which could pay out tens of millions of pounds for claims from businesses and householders over floods, hurricanes and droughts caused by global warming, is taking Blair on to advise it on the implications of climate change.
The second interesting headline today in the same paper is:
I'll be president of Europe if you give me the power - Blair
Former PM consults old Downing Street allies on campaign for new EU role Patrick Wintour, political editor
Saturday February 2, 2008
The Guardian
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and former British prime minister T

Tony Blair has been holding discussions with some of his oldest allies on how he could mount a campaign later this year to become full-time president of the EU council, the prestigious new job characterised as "president of Europe". Blair, currently the Middle East envoy for the US, Russia, EU and the UN, has told friends he has made no final decision, but is increasingly willing to put himself forward for the job if it comes with real powers to intervene in defence and trade affairs.
Now then Buckaroos, you gotta ask your own self, if Blair gave up his job as Prime Minister to "make some money for his family" and is now making $14,000,000 a year as an advisor just a year later --- his dreams fulfilled -- why in tarnation do you reckon he'd give that all up to be President of Europe? Don't look at me that way! I know it's a durned foolish question --- ! It ain't patriotism, it ain't noblesse oblige, .... it's looking at the big picture and the long "HAUL" ! Damn, these guys are good!
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