So the Iraq war was nothing to do with oil? How come the dodgiest prime minister ever ends up being an adviser to an oil company with interests in, guess where, Iraq? It has emerged that Blair has been paid for advising the UI Energy Corporation, a South Korean oil firm with interests in Iraq and the US. Douglas Carswell MP says, "It stinks".Tony Blair has been a chancer all his life. Everyone knows that and if they don't they must either be mad or extremely naive. Or possibly from another planet or a parallel universe. There is an outfit called the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments which is supposed to delve into such things as former prime ministers living off former political decisions. As Carsell says, "It seems that the former prime minister of the United Kingdom has been in the pay of a very big foreign oil corporation and we have been kept in the dark about it. Even now we do not know what he was paid or what the company got out of it. We need that information now. This is revolving door politics at its worst. It's not as if Mr Blair has even stepped back from politics, because he is still politically active in the Middle East. I'm afraid I have no confidence at all in the committee that vets these appointments. It's no good telling us these deals may be commercially sensitive - we are talking about the appointment of our former prime minister and the public interest, rather than any commercial interests, must come first."
Exactly right! However no amount of "political vetting" will hide the fact that Blair is, and probably always will be, a dodgy dealer. The South Koreans just hired Arthur Daley's posh protege.
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