Has the tide turned against ‘President’ Blair?

Dennis Churchill

Our rebate given away, the Referendum Commitment reneged on...you just can’t trust these Continentals.

Maggie

Blair would put himself up for hire as a Trojan horse to the highest bidder. The people who benefited the most from his Premiership of the UK were Russian oligarchs, Israeli property developers, Asian steel magnates, thieving bankers and US warmongers. The people who paid the highest price and got the worst deal were the British. The odds are loaded against Europeans ever deriving any benefit from a "President" Blair.

logdon

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

TrevorsDen

"Eurotrash-popstar status" - if I had said that there would have been complaints!

But a lovely bon mot and a suitable summing up of Blair.

Your 'PS' just points to what a pig in a poke we have signed up to.

Coney Weston

President Blair - have I died and gone to hell??

Frank P

logdon

The Nooooooooooooooossss!!!!! have it!

Peter From Maidstone

If Blair ever becomes President of the EU then we must surely come out onto the streets. It would be hideously awful for a man whom the population has rejected to gain for himself any further political position, especially one which might give him any influence over the UK.

mitch

What is it about the EU that attracts failed lefties like blair,Kinnock,mandelslime and the rest.
It is just a rest home for unemployable ex ministers giving them one more ride on the gravy train before the house of lords beckons.

Mirtha Tidville

any self serving Continental `Fonctionaire` would be preferable to that lying, cheating war monger. We dont need a debate about the role of the `Mayor of Towntown` only one about how quick we can get out

Peter

If there is any justice let's hope it has! How can half the heads of the EU governments possibly want the deceitful, duplicitous, egregious, hypocritical Blair to be their president? I use that word advisedly because her certainly would not be ours.

Europe stinks - let's get out for good.

Moraymint

The guy is obsessed with himself, the stage, the spotlight, adoration and playing to the gallery. Beyond that, he is pointless and useless. Just like the great European political project.

Percy

Why would the EU want to choose someone from the most Eurosceptic country on the continent is puzzling. It surely must occur to even some of the most ardent Euro-nutters that appointing a man to a position created by a treaty from a country whose people were cheated out of having a say on it could be seen as a tad inflammatory.

On the plus side Mr Tony could get back a little of our rebate that he so generously gave away in salary, expenses etc..... so it's not all bad.

crappy little country, crappy people in it

And nothing here about the rights and wrongs of having any European president. Just tittle tattle. Pathetic.

Percy - the European Government will think that having a President Blair will be like rubbing our faces in their crap. They don't care about sensitivity when it comes to showing us our bosses are.

Tiberius

Boris predicted Blair would fail in this bid as soon as it was mooted.

Mazza1230

If we must have an EU President, let us at least have un vrai Poseur, rather than that veritable mountebank, Blair.

Boudicca

Perhaps we should remind Brussels about the atrocious Madame Cherie. She alone is sufficient reason not to appoint President Blair.

logdon

Frank P
October 22nd, 2009 6:15pm

As Cyrano de Bergerac would say?

Dorothy Wilson

Blair and the EU deserve each other. We deserve neither.

Dorothy Wilson

Can I refer you to an article in the English language version of Der Spiegel? [Google Der Spiegel International or Spiegel Online International/Europe then scroll down the list of articles to one titled "In the running to be Europe's Top Politican"]. The date is given in the American way - 10/19/09. All is obviously not rosy. However, the interesting points are that it down plays Blair's chances but tips Millipede major as the High Representative. No. I'm not making it up! I didn't know whether to laugh or throw my hands up in horror.

Perhaps we are worrying too much about Lisbon. It will all go belly up sooner or later.

Michael Hooper

I suppose if you want a man who reneged on his promise of an EU referendum, who said education, education, education and then introduced university fees, who lied about the reason to invade Iraq, let Brown run amok and ruin the UK economy, allowed un-controlled immigration, then yes he is the man for you. He is a hypocrite who goes to see the bones of some obscure Saint, but cannot go to Wotton Bassett to pay respect to our fallen brave troops returning from Afghanistan - nor can our Prime Minister or Bob Ainsworth come to that!!. Let hope someone with lots of integrity such as Mary Robinson be considered an eminently suitable candidate for the first President of the EU.

In2minds

Dorothy Wilson @ 8.36pm, well spotted. But does this show that the Germans have a sense of humour or are simply stupid?

Michael Booth

Oh let's be honest and have a Habsburg as President - after all, it is the Holy Roman Empire in new clothes, isn't it?

Dorothy Wilson

In2Minds

Not sure. I have a good many German friends ranging from a very precise Northerner to a jolly Swabian and a typical Barvarian. The Swabian has more of a sense of humour than the other two. However, none of them is stupid.

On the other hand, the Germans as a nation come at the EU from a somewhat different perspective than we do. And they view the political class in a someway different way from what we do. And it is that political class that is the danger.

Noa Zrk

No more El Presidente Bliar? Gawd I hope so..the brute should be greased with KY Jelly before being stuffed down a sewer.

Frank P

Dorothy Wilson (8.23pm)

Very good. No ... that's faint praise; a brilliant couplet!