Blair caught riding London train without ticket
LONDON —
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was left red-faced when he was caught traveling on a train without a ticket and said he had no cash to pay the fare, a report said on Wednesday.
Blair, who has earned around 500,000 pounds on the speaking circuit since leaving office in June, was confronted by a ticket inspector as he traveled to Heathrow airport to catch a flight to the United States on Monday, the Daily Mail newspaper reported.
He said he had no cash for the 24.50 pounds fare. The newspaper, quoting Blair’s spokesman, said his bodyguard offered to pay the ticket, but the inspector said he could travel for free.
Blair, 54, has taken up a post as the Middle East envoy for the international Quartet—the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.
He also has a lucrative part-time post as adviser to Wall Street bank JP Morgan and advises Swiss company Zurich Financial Services on a range of issues including climate change.
AFP
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Everton2
hmmm
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some14some
Cho Hazukashii...Blair should have been fined.
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Scrote
You can buy tickets on board the Heathrow Express: you don't need to have one before you get on. As for having no cash, he could have paid with a credit card.
Blair's wife was also caught without a ticket one time. Pair of fare-dodging shysters.
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proxy
They would have tasered him in Vancouver.
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northlondon
Tight b*stard. Make him pay.
The ticket inspector should be rollocked as well for not doing his job.
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Nessie
He should've taken the third way home: walk.
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presto345
Too insignificant to comment.
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unscrejects
What? No ticket? Sounds like a terrorist to me. They should have carried out their duties.
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