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27th April 2008, 09:10 PM #1
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Tony Blair Caught Travelling Without a Train Ticket.........
Article from: Agence France-Presse
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has been caught travelling on a train without a ticket or any cash to pay the fare - pull the other one it's got bells on it!! If it is good enough for my wife trying evasion why not me.
Mr Blair was confronted by a ticket inspector as he travelled to London's Heathrow airport to catch a flight to the US on Monday, spokesman Matthew Doyle said. "Mr Blair just didn't have any cash on him,'' Mr Doyle said. "One of the policemen travelling with him offered to pay for the ticket, but the ticket inspector said it wasn't necessary.''
A ticket should on the train should cost £24.50 ($51).
Mr Blair, 54, is believed to have earned around $US1 million ($1.05m) on the speaking circuit since standing down last June after a decade in charge. Soon after leaving office, he took up a post as the Middle East envoy for the international Quartet of the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States. He also has a lucrative part-time post as advisor to Wall Street bank JP Morgan and advises Swiss company Zurich Financial Services on a range of issues including climate change.
Mr Blair's wife Cherie, a judge, was fined after being caught riding a train without a ticket on her way to a court case in Luton, just north of London, in 2000.
Well of course if we tried that we would be in a cell now awaiting prosecution because we should have had the money or credit card to pay our way.
But seriously, don't our ex-ministers (let alone ex Prime Ministers) get free transport within this country once they leave (or get kicked out) of Parliament?
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28th April 2008, 05:56 PM #2
I believe its lifetime airfares and a limo. Bit of a lurk, I like the pommy system better,
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