November 8, 2005
A WOMAN OF THE PEOPLE
Cherie: I'd be a shop girl if state hadn't paid my university fees (Toby Helm, The Telegraph, November 8th, 2004)
Cherie Blair has said that she would have ended up working in a shop if the state had not paid her university fees.Her comments were seized on last night by opponents of Tony Blair's policy of extending tuition fees as evidence of a policy rift between the Prime Minister and his wife.
Mrs Blair, a leading barrister and part-time judge, told this month's edition of Counsel, a legal magazine: "The truth is if I hadn't had the funding from the state to go to university I would have worked in a shop."
Labour abolished free university education in 1998 and decided last year to more than double the fees from £1,175 a year to £3,000 (ed: $5,000.00 U.S) from next year.
That’s why no one in America attends university. But give her credit. She never forgets her needy roots or misses a chance to pay society back.
Has anyone broached the idea that society would have been better served if she were a shop girl?
Posted by: h-man at November 8, 2005 2:19 PMNever crossed our minds.
Posted by: joe shropshire at November 8, 2005 2:42 PM"...if the state had not paid her university fees."
And where, praytell, did the state get the money for her fees? From its 9-5 job, I suppose.
Posted by: b at November 8, 2005 2:43 PMThere are 10s of thousands in france w/state paid for university fees and they can't even get that....................
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Now we have to ask Cherie what's wrong w/being a shop girl?
It's honest work and taxes paid pays her husband's salary and her lifestyle.............
Posted by: Sandy P at November 8, 2005 4:16 PMRegarding the children's charity scandal referred to in the final sentence above, it would appear Ms. Blair has adopted the Jesse Jackson model of activism.
Posted by: Dennis at November 8, 2005 5:15 PMSHOP GIRL - Is that like the girls in Amsterdam that are on display in shop windows in the red light district?
Posted by: obc at November 8, 2005 5:39 PM