"Has-Been" Blair was Dismissed at the G8 Summit

June 8, 2007 (LPAC)--Tony Blair got the full "has-been" treatment from Russia and the rest of the G8, report all the British press, from the tabloids like the Daily Express to the stuffy Financial Times today. Blair, was labeled "yesterday's man," was most effectively dismissed with what the Express called a "withering" attack from Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak.

After Blair's blather about his plans for a "frank talk" with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G8, and had tried to tell business not to "risk" investing in Russia, Storchak told the press at Heiligendamm: "I doubt business will react emotionally to what I believe are the rather emotional words of a person who is, after all, an ex-prime minister." Blair's planned talks with Putin might not even be held, the Express said.

Even George Bush was dismissive. Blair was "frozen out" of both the Bush-Putin talks, and Bush's talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.