I’d like to put on record my strong support for Tony Blair as a future European President. What better way to ensure that Brown does not co-operate anymore with Brussels? Or to revive that anti-Blair feeling should Brown go to the country on the same day as the June ’09 Euro elections? But Le Monde says there are many other names in the frame: Carl Bildt (Sweden), Benita Ferrero-Waldner (Austria), Aleksander Kwasniewski (Poland) and Michel Barnier (French). Surely Blair towers above them all? “We call him President Blair over here, because he thinks he is,” Sophie, Countess of Wessex once told the Fake Sheikh. The EU may now grant to our ex-PM the title he has so long coveted.

Blair for president of Europe

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