THIS March the Sunday Times carried an article by investigative journalist Mark Hollingsworth about Tony Blair bidding for business in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The article — like all of Hollingsworth’s stuff — was well worth reading.

The Sunday Times also made available the full bid document which was the basis of the story — and it is worth a second look. It is a brochure of everything that was reprehensible about Blair.

In the “Letter of Proposal,” Tony Blair Associates show that they intend to sell all the contacts made by a Labour prime minister to an ugly repressive regime.

The 24-page brochure is an offer for Blair and pals to work for the UAE government. There isn’t a price tag, but this is likely to be a proposal worth tens of millions of pounds.

It leads with a mix of management-speak and flattery. Blair’s personal foreword says: “The world is opening up fast. New countries are emerging as places of political and economic interest.

“The UAE has benefitted from strong leadership. It is respected and relations with it coveted. So there is a big opportunity for it to build its brand and reputation, and to establish powerful networks of influence.”

The “strong leadership” of the United Arab Emirates is rich in oil, but poor in human rights.

It is a hereditary monarchy with a medieval political system. The Emirates government belongs to the royal families of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the other sheikhdoms making up the country.

This is the kind of “brand” Blair admires: the Emirates escaped the Arab spring. Their security forces tortured and “disappeared” would-be reformers.

Torture is a very personal business for the Emirates rulers. In 2009 a leaked tape showed Sheikh Issa — a member of the ruling family and brother of the current UAE president — torturing a grain dealer over a business deal.

Sheikh Issa had the tape made in 2005 so he could watch the torture later. The sheikh, helped by a policeman, beat his victim with a plank with a nail in it, used a cattle prod, a whip.

The man’s torture on the desert sand began with the sheikh firing live rounds from a rifle around him, and ends with running him over with a Mercedes 4x4.

The video has truly medieval aspects — the sheikh shoves sand in his mouth, literally pours salt on his wounds, and sets fire to his genitals using lighter fluid.

Blair says “despite a changing world around it, the UAE has taken a clear line and stuck to it. This has aroused interest in the country and created a real appetite to engage with it, on the part of many countries.”

The “clear line” involves a very hands-on approach to abuse throughout the UAE.

Guest workers who graft on the UAE’s new buildings and services are regularly assaulted, arrested and cheated. A video posted on YouTube in 2013 of a senior UAE official in traditional Arab dress beating and humiliating an Indian van driver gave a sense of the widespread and casual abuse.

For Blair this means that the UAE “has a competent and innovative government. It has a vision for the Middle East that is actually the only one with a chance of working.”

Even before this bid document, Blair worked for the UAE sheikhs. The paper says: “Already, there is a close working relationship between my various organisations and Abu Dhabi.

“This is a place we trust and an environment in which we feel at home. We share the same values and perspective.”

Blair is also completely openly selling his contacts — contacts which only exist because of the hard work of Labour members and the trust of Labour voters. Blair is now monetising their trust and hard work by selling his “network” to reactionary regimes.

The paper offers to “help build the networks of connection” for the UAE. Blair says: “All my various organisations are based on the belief that the world today basically works through connectivity.

“So we’re building a series of deep business and government connections round the world. We do both business and philanthropy.”

He offers the sheikhs “unrivalled global context, experiences and networks — including world leaders, development organisations and private-sector players.”

As well as offering them access to Blair’s international contacts, Tony Blair Associates says he can bring in “trusted and experienced advisers and experts” who have “worked at the highest level of government in the UK and internationally.”

The bid document also offers “Mr Blair’s personal guidance and close involvement” including “the trusted peer-to-peer advice and support that Mr Blair can provide to a country’s leadership.”

For this one-on-one, Blair-on-sheikh service, the brochure says “Tony Blair would want to spend 2–3 days a month in Abu Dhabi.”

Ultimately this particular deal for a Tony Blair “Hub” in the UAE was not taken up, although Tony Blair Associates does have a “strong relationship” with the UAE.

In a summary of the pervasive, immoral reach of Blair, the document concludes: “There is virtually nowhere in the world right now where we could not work or provide the necessary contacts either politically or commercially, should we want to.”

If anyone doubts the need to radically change Labour’s direction, all they need to do is thumb through this ugly brochure.

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