[...] with the possible exception of the Ceauşescus, no political leader and his wife have ended their term of office so detested and despised. Blair was not the first leader to love the rich and powerful. Cherie was not the first political wife to push her role to the limits of embarrassment and beyond: remember Margaret Trudeau? But they were the first prime minister and would-be first lady of the U.K. to use the premiership with naked greed, as a means to get their hands on all the wealth they could.
The spectacle of Blair brown-nosing top industrialists and Cherie touring her lame “My Life in Number 10″ lectures, hoovering up freebies all the way, disgusted left and right of the political spectrum alike. The virtual job Blair has created for himself now as peace envoy to the Middle East is a perfect fit: like Mark Thatcher in his mother Margaret’s reign, Blair has found a home in the region where nepotism, cronyism and back-scratching began. - Rosalind Miles
It seems we’ll get to read all about that in a not too distant future! Well, not really. Only the fictionalized version.
