Always keep your eye on a snake

How about these two prime specimens Tony Blair has to keep an eye on? (Both links via BrothersJudd - here and here.)

Chirac stabs Blair in back:

BACK-STABBING Jacques Chirac last night repaid Tony Blair for helping him by trying to sabotage Britain’s £3billion EU rebate.

The double betrayal came only hours after Mr Blair rescued the French President from angry French unions.

FIRST Mr Chirac joined calls for Brussels to axe our refund.

THEN he accused British and American economic policy of exporting death to the Third World.

Wait for it.

Mr Blair had been banking on France to help save the 20-year-old rebate.

Even with the rebate Britain pays more than TWO AND A HALF TIMES as much as the French.

Without it, the Treasury’s share of running the EU would be a staggering 14 TIMES that of France.

Maybe Jacques left his wallet at home? But then he always does.

He went on to rub it in by accusing Britain and America of “fuelling dangerous global conflict” through free-market economic policies.

He claimed they create an “explosive” poverty gap between the West and the developing world.

And then he whines about where the money came from. I guess nothing breeds envy like success. Drat that pesky free market, eh Weasel Boy? Oh wait, we're doing snakes.

Hours earlier, the PM risked EU fury by helping Mr Chirac to delay new Brussels employment rules while they are reviewed.

French unions believe the laws — aimed at loosening controls over EU service jobs — will flood France with cheap east European labour.

Their threatened national strike would have increased Mr Chirac’s chances of defeat in his referendum on the EU Constitution.

Next time let him pick up the check.

And speaking of the "developing world," They may be continents apart, but Mugabe blames Blair for everything:

FORGET about education. Forget about job creation, even though unemployment is running at 80 per cent. The 2005 parliamentary election in Zimbabwe is all about the threat posed by a middle-aged man living thousands of miles away.

President Mugabe, who since 2000 has made no secret of his contempt for Britain, has dubbed next week’s vote the “anti-Blair election”. Demonisation of the Prime Minister has become the central platform of the ruling Zanu (PF) party’s campaign.

We all know Bobby Mugabe and his entourage aren't the sharpest tools in the drawer, but how's it playing with the little people?

The bizarre campaign has many urban voters perplexed. Foster, a security guard in Harare who did not want to give his full name for fear of reprisals, said: “Why is he talking about Blair when people are starving in this country?” Primrose, a young professional, said: “This has to be one of the most irrelevant platforms ever.” Munya, who owns an IT company, said the focus on Blair was “ nonsense propaganda”.

But Zanu (PF)’s campaign is designed to woo, or rather scare, rural voters by suggesting that if the opposition wins, Zimbabwe will became a de facto colony of Britain once more, and that land will be returned to white farmers. In a rally near the South African border on Tuesday, President Mugabe told the crowd: “Our heritage needs to be protected from neocolonialists like Blair.”

Sheesh, who would want the place? The poor UK taxpayers are already footing the bill for the layabout Frenchies!