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Unquenchable fires and Blair

It seems that some things burn eternally and cannot be extinguished by the efforts of mere man: the underground coal fire that rages in Pennsylvania that has burnt for 46 years and is still going strong; or the obsession of Geeklawyer’s growing band of female stalkers (and the odd male one we’ll gloss over quickly).

All of these pale beside the ambition of the ex-Dear Leader. Having buggered up the country nicely by creating new breeding grounds for hatred of the West, and gifted an entire generation of angry young English Muslim men to radicalism; having launched us into a supporting role in retarded George’s democracy tour of the Middle East — critically panned by Rolling Stone magazine; having eradicated at a stroke vast swathes of the civil liberties he said were the reason we were a great liberal democracy superior to the terrorist values; having trashed the Health service into a semi-privatised profit centre for health companies and which employs reams of highly paid middle-managers whose function is to churn out empty statistics about the great improvements and, well, you get the point. Blair is a oily sleazy little runt; a failed barrister with a chip on his shoulder that would save the Amazon.

But of course all that was supposed to be over with his exit from power. Oh blessed day when the clouds parted and the rain retreated to be replaced by the mild drizzle of the chubby, absolutely heterosexual, thingy … Gordon Brown, Google informs Geeklawyer.

We have been conned. Bliar has not had enough. With his obscenely lucrative rewards for doing a bad job, you’d think he’d be happy rolling around on £50 notes on his king sized bed with that fat arsed minger Cherie (embarrassingly, a member of Geeklawyer’s Inn). £250,000 a pop US speaking gigs, £1Mil a year for a part time job, £6Mil book deal.

No. Apparently now he wants to bugger up the EU too by becoming PM of the EU. Eeeeek. He’s been caught lunching the almost equally repellent French clothes horse PM Nicolas SadDozy at the Paris restaurant Thiou. A word of warning SadDozy: avoid doing deals with Bliar in restaurants. Ask Gordon.

Thiou are famed for an exotic meat and noodle concoction known as ‘le tigre qui pleure’ (the tiger who cries). In honour of the oily one’s visit can Geeklawyer suggest a new dish? “The Voter Who Weeps”. Geeklawyer’s French is too poor to render that into French — in French he can only say “Get off my ski lift you Nazi-collaborating frog eating Gallic tampon or Geeklawyer will have coprophilic sex with your disgusting wife after he’s bathed her and made her shave her armpits”.

Why oh why oh why oh why can’t the useless rag-head pillocks in Al Queda assassinate him? It would be great PR for them: many of us would revise our low opinion of them if they could do us this one small service. Their ineptness is proof that the terrorism ‘threat’ is laughable.

update: Some idiot is trying get Geeklawyer prosecuted. Hilarious! Please read the blog, please, it is absolutely frigging hysterical. I’ve never seen a political stalker before but I think that that is what this person is. He has no interest in politics and is a right wing loony. From his poor inarticulate writing and weak arguments he is clearly not very bright and is manifestly poorly educated — ideal Neo-Labour fodder. I am assuming, from the tone, that the interest in Tony Bliar is a homosexual one.

Sleazebag Blair — corruption finally pays off

It is rumoured that Sleazy Tony was a bit miffed that he wasn’t as rich as he felt he deserved to be. Supposedly his heroic self-sacrifice in giving up a failed career at the Bar and suffering the indignity of living off his QC wife’s earnings and reputation wasn’t truly recompensed by his public salary.

His plan then became to use the Labour party to develop a post prime ministerial career by changing it’s policies to whatever was expedient and sucking off any helpful US president.

It looks like the plan paid off: JP Morgan are paying him a million a year (part-time only, obviously). In addition he is getting half a million for speeches and ‘consultancy’ work, plus £5.8 million for a book.

Nice. Shame about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians murdered, the hundreds of British troops killed and the civil liberties destroyed but, hey, you can’t make an omelet without cracking voters.

Bar reform –pupillages and practice

Ruthie recently wrote about the Vos Review of entry to the profession and modes of professional practice. An interim report has now been published and the results are much as expected. While Geeklawyer is intimidated and afraid of Geoffrey Vos QC given his recent inquisition he feels that has to risk a Trip to the Basement. Some of the report is crap and some manifestly good.

The report mentions the perception that the Bar is too posh and Oxbridge; that those from a working class background are not sufficiently represented and there should be more of them. Geeklawyer is going to be controversial here: frankly he regards this as twaddle. He’s resigned to sharing his profession with the middle classes, but doesn’t see why the flying fuck he should have to put up with chavs: good heavens, we have Cherie Booth isn’t that enough? The tearooms will be filled with young men discussing football; driving to chambers in hot hatchbacks or scooters; Glaswegians becoming barristers and buying large houses in the West Country. Brhhh. A chilling thought.

While equal access is all jolly nice inclusive and makes us all feel cuddly gratified and warm, Geeklawyer thinks that there is a qualitative distinction between discriminating against someone based on gender or race and that that arises as a result of ones family not having economic power. Geeklawyer says “sorry geeze tough shit, life ruff ‘innit, an’ all that? Djya kna wot I mean?”.
Geeklawyer is quite happy to have diversity and it’s a good thing but distorting a profession and its rules for no other purpose seems like pandering. If you are talented and you or your family can afford to get you through the process great, otherwise you’re owed nothing. Least of by Geeklawyer. Deal with it & drive a truck or get a Vos bank loan to finance yourself.

The rest of the report is eminently sensible. The current system is a screwup and both Ruthie and Geeklawyer have commented ad nauseum on its inadequacies: people are driven by ambition into wasting huge sums on BVC courses when they have little prospect of a pupillage. Throttling back entrants by setting a 2.1 minimum is a broadly good idea but with a caveat: some very capable people currently practicing at the Bar have only 2.2’s losing the likes of them would be a shame. Academic degree class is a reasonable indicator of academic capability but not necessarily so good as an advocacy indicator. A better metric is needed and testing would be ideal. Realistically this is unlikely ever to happen so so long as one is going to choose a near arbitrary selection criteria it’ll do: so long as people who have a decent excuse for a 2.2 get a crack of the whip — those supporting a family while earning a degree etc.

Geeklawyer has a slightly more radical suggestion: make it easier for people to qualify by opening up capacity at the Bar by easing tenancy and pupillage rule. Make it possible for newly qualified barristers to set up their chambers so if they can’t get a tenancy they can operate from home or new sets; widen the approaches to providing pupillage (while maintaining training quality — natch). Have faith in the market — crap new lawyers sets will die if they are no good — if they are good they will get instructions & be able to pay the exorbitant rent most sets pay.

Cherie squash

Thanks to Liadnan for giving Geeklawyer the opportunity to point at Cherie Blair and giggle. He told the tale on the chat forum that the Malaysian Bar had told her, in nearly so many words: “We have enough senior barristers of our own thank you, please piss off”. Continue reading ‘Cherie squash’

Cherie’s hairdresser

Ruthie was rudely awakened from her torpor this morning with the news that her 24 quid Labour Party membership fee is being used to fund Cherie’s hairdresser. Ruthie may be a skinflint, but the last time she went for a cut and blow dry it cost 20 quid. Even a senior stylist was only 24 quid, so Ruthie wonders how Cherie’s hairdresser, sorry stylist, can justify charging 275. Thats one hell of a bad hair day. Continue reading ‘Cherie’s hairdresser’