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December 27th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - No reports of him being in bad health
- Had a minor heart scare in office but keeps himself in good shape
By
Damien Gayle
Last updated at 2:28 PM on 27th December 2011
The BBC have started filming interviews for Tony Blair’s obituary, it emerged today – even though the former prime minister is just 58 years old.
Leading Labour figures were said to be shocked to be approached by BBC producers putting together the tributes to Mr Blair.
There are no reports that the former PM is in bad health. Indeed, he was the youngest prime minister in nearly 200 years when he entered No. 10 in 1997 at the age of 43.
Tributes: The BBC has already begun filming interviews for their obituary of former Prime Minister Tony Blair (pictured in April) although he is just 58 years old
LEADER’S LEGACY
1983 Becomes MP for Sedgefield
July 1994 Blair is elected Leader of the Labour Party following the sudden death of his predecessor John Smith. Under his leadership, the party adopted the ‘New Labour’ strategy
May 1997 He Labour to a landslide victory in the general election, and becomes. at 43 years old, the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812.
1998 Plays a major part in the Good Friday Agreement.
October 2001 Sends UK troops in Afghanistan in support of George W Bush’s reign on terror
2003 Gives further backing to Bush’s foreign policy by sending troops into Iraq.
May 2005 Blair wins a third consecutive election and becomes, the only person to have led the Labour Party to three consecutive general election victories
June 2007 He is succeeded as Labour leader and as Prime Minister by Gordon Brown. On the day he resigned as Prime Minister, he was appointed the official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East.
May 2008 Blair launches his Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
A Labour source told the Sun: ‘It seems in pretty poor taste that the Beeb is already preparing for Tony’s death.
‘He is still a relatively young man who I’m sure has got a lot of years left in him yet.’
Mr Blair, who was prime minister for 10 years, had a relatively minor heart scare in office, but is known to keep himself in good shape.
He and his wife, Cherie, had three children when he entered office. She gave birth to another son, Leo, in 2000 – the first baby born to a serving PM in more than 150 years.
Since leaving office he has made a multimillion pound fortune out of corporate consultancy and on the international speaking circuit.
He has also taken up a role as official Middle East envoy of the Quartet and, in 2008, launched his Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
Any tribute to the former prime
minister is sure to focus on the three wars he involved the country in –
in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The
latter war, which started in 2003, was apparently promoted to the
public on dubious grounds – with the now-notorious ‘dodgy dossier’ – and
the bloodshed caused his popularity to plummet.
Mr
Blair stood down in June 2007, on the eve of the financial crisis that
sparked the credit crunch and ensuing global recession, in favour of his
Chancellor, Gordon Brown.
A BBC spokesman told the Sun: ‘We don’t comment on obituaries.’
Controversy: Tony Blair met with Libya’s former despot Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2007
War leader: Mr Blair addresses British troops in Basra, Iraq, in 2004. Any account of his premiership is likely to focus on the controversial invasion
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If they’re looking for tributes to Tony Blair’then it’s probably just good sense for them to start well in advance…..the’ll have a lot of looking to do.
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This is standard TV industry practice. Just a feeble excuse for the DM to have another pop at the BBC.
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Hope he makes it to The Hague beforehand!
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Alan, Beverley, East Yorks, who are the “we” that you profess to speak on behalf of?
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Blair was a winner (3 elections) unlike this public school toff who couldn’t get a working majority at the best time in history to win an election! – David Prestbury, Macclesfield, 27/12/2011 17:13
The Labour Party used public funds to buy votes. Job creation, careers for the boys. Look at the BBC..!! And now we’re paying for it. Blair was a loser. Of tax payers’ money.
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ironic as i’ve got tony blair’s obituary, it comes in a pack with andrex written on it and sits by my toilet.
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Typical er… Left wing… Er.. Bias?? DM fail yet again!!!! Care to apologise you arrogant crones?
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Blair was a winner (3 elections) unlike this public school toff who couldn’t get a working majority at the best time in history to win an election! – David Prestbury, Macclesfield, 27/12/2011 17:13 ——– Yippee! And now you’re all paying for those three wins, and will be for the next generation or two.
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It could be worse I suppose, I mean the BBC could have done a DM and published an entirely fake story, full of lies with made up quotes!!! now THAT’S poor taste!!
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NC, Alba: “”Libellous and abusive comments are not allowed” ……… However we will write our articles in such a way that such posts are encouraged and then published.” – They’re not libellous if they’re true, and they’re not abusive if they’re entirely justified. – David Bourke, Rochester, Kent., 27/12/2011 13:20 ***** I think you will find that a recent court case found the DM guilty of encouraging such comments !!!! – NC, Alba. – NC, I can find no reference to this, perhaps you’d care to enlighten us. The Mail sets it’s own rules anyway, so why would a court be finding them guilty of something that is not legally an offence?
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