Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

“He wants to come and remind people of New Labour, of the fact that he and Gordon and Peter Mandelson were people who steered this thing”
- David Hill, former Labour communications director, after Tony Blair announced that he intends to destroy Labour’s chance of winning the election will enter the pre-election fray by giving a speech today [...]

“We used to pay more for his wife’s hairdressing”
- Labour MP Lindsay Hoyle on hearing that Tony Blair contributed just £13,500 to the Labour Party in recent years

“What I have always said about David Cameron is that he does a better Tony Blair than I do. I just do the voice, while Cameron is doing the whole career”
- Rory Bremner

“There are a lot of Lefties who simply hate the wealth creators – but, like Blair, they love the wealth”
- Lord Tebbit

From the Daily Mail:
Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq. The former Prime Minister tried to keep the public in the dark over his dealings with South Korean oil firm UI Energy Corporation. Mr Blair – who has [...]

*yawn*
Yes, it’s still going.  Last night, Mandelson said that David Cameron’s failure to confront his billionaire deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft over his tax status exposes the “fundamental weakness” of the Conservative leader and undermines his claim to be a moderniser.  In an interview with the Guardian, he said that Ashcroft had Cameron “by the balls”, the affair [...]

“I guess one of the reasons I did get quite upset with Andrew this morning, I feel sometimes we are treated in this media bubble… like somehow you are devoid of humanity”
- Tony Blair’s former communications chief Alastair Campbell on an emotionally charged interview with Andrew Marr.  Just to clarify, that’s Alistair Campbell accusing the [...]

“A fiasco, disgrace and utter failure”
- how Jackie Ashley, Jonathan Freedland, Martin Kettle, Seumas Milne and Henry Porter described Tony Blair’s day at the Chilcot Inquiry (full article HERE)

From the Telegraph:
Tony Blair is costing British taxpayers £6 million a year to protect – more than the current Prime Minister.  The former Prime Minister is understood to be the most expensive person in the country for the police to guard because of his regular foreign excursions. More than 20 officers are now understood to [...]

“I actually genuinely believe with a decision like this you’ve got to take it, you’ve got to work out what you think is right. What your faith does is it sustains you through what is then a very difficult time as you try to implement what you think is right.”
- Tony Blair, telling Fern Britton in [...]

…or so say the six doctors who have started legal action for a new inquest into his death.  I’ll let the Telegraph do the rest:
The action is being taken because six doctors are convinced that the original verdict of suicide is unsafe and should be overturned.  Some suspect that Dr Kelly, 59, was murdered shortly [...]

“What would Margaret Thatcher have done? I think she would have insisted on a coherent diplomatic and political strategy.”
- Sir Christopher Meyer, then British Ambassador to the US, speaking to the Iraq Inquiry about Tony Blair’s meeting with President Bush at his Texas ranch in 2002, which Sir Christopher claims was probably the turning point when [...]

Dear Tony Blair,
As your bid to become EU President stumbled in a very public fashion, I wondered whether European leaders were nervous about the impending inquiry into the Iraq War.  Yesterday’s revelations in the Sunday Telegraph that military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by [...]

“Everything about this process rubs our noses in how undemocratic the EU is. It’s not just the way Baroness Ashton was appointed; it’s her whole career. Lady Ashton is a lifelong quangocrat who has never once been elected to anything. She went from running a health authority to working at the National Council for One [...]

Come on, let’s be honest – however much we all hate Blair, he would be the perfect man for the job of EU President.  Just look at his past record:

He is the only British politician that Merkel and Sarkozy give a toss about
He has a track record of bowing to Franco-German interests at the expense [...]

“People know who he is, and he could step into this new role with a lot of respect and he would be generally welcomed.”
- Europe Minister Baroness Kinnock, apparently confirming that Tony Blair is the UK candidate for president of the European Council as well as confirming that she clearly hasn’t spoken to a single member of the [...]

“repairs to roof and guttering; strip off old roof to porch above front door and renew “latts”, slates, felt and lead; strip off two main roofs above rear of property and renew latts, slates, felts and lead; take off and renew the coping stones to main roof which were irreparable”
- the expenses claim put in [...]

Dear Alistair Campbell,
The rumours of your involvement in Labour’s renewed efforts over the past 12 months to hog the media spotlight continue to rumble on, but you have not wasted any time in seeking out a new blogging career.  Your blog has given you with a regular outlet for political analysis, but quite frankly your [...]

If you’re angry or disillusioned about Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension after he destroyed one of the largest banks in Britain, prepare to redirect your disgust and loathing towards Tony Blair.  When it comes to making a mint out of a destructive and deceitful legacy, this man has few competitors.
Let’s start with the book.  Firstly, he [...]

“He has been an example for so many people around the world of what dedicated leadership can accomplish.”
- Barack Obama, who obviously hasn’t read a British newspaper in years, comments on Tony Blair