AND FINALLY

Obviously miffed at the unwelcome reception to Saint Tony’s recent opus magnanimous (see SchNEWS 738), Cherie ‘Lionel’ Blair was seemingly outraged at the thought of a few people making a fast buck selling hubby’s signature on Ebay. So she attempted, under the cloak of online anonymity, to ‘undermine the market’ by selling it herself, cheap.

Having always overestimated Tony’s many wondrous qualities, it must have been galling to find out that nobody wanted it at the paltry offer price of £25. In fact, she had to lower it all the way down to a measly tenner before finding a punter willing to take a chance on such poison penmanship.

Cherie was uncovered when the thrifty millionaire bought a silver butter knife and glass dish from another ebayer who looked her account up and recognised it as registered to the Blair’s address.

Her enterprising attempts to crush a few entrepreneurs all seem a bit rich for someone who’s ridden the high life of high office, always happy to be ‘devoured’ by a passionate man willing to authorise the use of white phosphorous on populations he’d illegally declared war on. But then again, you don’t get that rich without being a bit mad with it.