Pennies From Heaven

Acolytes of the Ascended Incarnation of the Reverend Blair have been giving forth loud hosannas at their master's infinite generosity. Now that the Milibeing has freed Labour plc from its main source of funds, his reverence has decided to step in and perhaps purchase a controlling interest; although it is as yet unconfirmed whether he will spend more in staff and resources than he invested in helping Gordon Brown lose the 2010 election. However that may be, Tony's earthly representatives were keen to assure those of us on the material plane that Tony's ascetic lifestyle remains unblemished: it seems that his reverence's non-spiritual wealth amounts to less than seventy-five million. It was pointed out that his reverence has major financial commitments, which he obviously could not sustain if he were rolling in filthy lucre; and that over the past six years his reverence has contributed ten million to charity, presumably in order to avoid being turfed out onto the street with the bankers, the outsourcing profiteers and all the other victims of excess taxation.