Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is a Qatar-supporting stooge and corrupt politician who has recently been named as one of the patrons of crypto scam company FTX and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried. Blair is perfectly willing to put money ahead of human rights, ahead of threats to Western freedom, and ahead of threats to those attending the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He has plenty of company among his globalist colleagues. The personal risk to such leaders and their families of selling out free societies is negligible, and they do not care about the hardworking public that made their careers and sustains their lavish lifestyles.
Tony Blair “gifted” his very own institute — The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change — nearly US$9 million five years ago; now he wants more money, including what Muslim Brotherhood-supporting Qatar can cough up. This former British prime minister then lectures taxpayers, saying: “It is not sensible of us to disrespect Qatar”.
According to Breitbart report, Tony Blair has warned Britons not to criticize World Cup hosts Qatar too much, saying that the Arab nation frequently invests in the UK.
Tony Blair, the former Neoliberal leader of the leftist Labour Party, has said that Britons should avoid criticizing the Islamic nation of Qatar too much over its LGBT and human rights record, saying that the country is an ally of the UK that invests heavily within the island.
It comes as leftist governments, campaigners and media outlets heap attacks on both Qatar and world football governing body FIFA over the tournament, which has seen the display of various pro-gay rights symbols curtailed both on and off the pitch.
Although he insisted, he was pro-LGBT rights, Blair appeared to criticize this recent social justice-inspired onslaught against Qatar, telling the News Agents podcast that there were lots of reasons to go easy on the country.
“It is not sensible of us to disrespect Qatar,” the former leader argued, saying that the World Cup is the “biggest event they held” with historical significance for the nation.
“…it is a huge event for the country. They are allies of ours, they do invest a huge amount of money in this country,” he continued, arguing that the country, along with other nations in the middle-east, is quickly liberalizing.
Pressured on this point, the former PM admitted that people could feel strongly about the issue, but that the continued pressure being put on the country by ministers wearing pro-LGBT armbands in stadiums was unlikely to achieve anything.
Blair also emphasized that the last time England held the World Cup in 1966, homosexuality was still illegal in the country, saying that Britons were now “in danger of going over the top” with their crusade against anti-LGBT Qatar.
The former Labour leader’s arguments here echo those made by Gianni Infantino, the current president of FIFA, who has attacked western critics of the games as being hypocritical.
“We have been taught many lessons from Europeans and the Western world. I am European. For what we have been doing for 3,000 years around the world, we should be apologizing for the next 3,000 years before giving moral lessons… This one-sided moral lesson is just hypocrisy,” the official said earlier this month.
Qatari officials have also been quick to reverse criticism of their human rights record in the run-up to the tournament, with one official accusing the west of racism and Islamophobia amid claims that there was skullduggery surrounding the decision to allow the country to host the tournament.
“We dealt with this in a fair competition and there was no corruption,” former Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani remarked. “Sadly, there’s a great deal of discrimination and racism”.
