Quote of the day
“People know who he is, and he could step into this new role with a lot of respect and he would be generally welcomed.”
- Europe Minister Baroness Kinnock, apparently confirming that Tony Blair is the UK candidate for president of the European Council as well as confirming that she clearly hasn’t spoken to a single member of the British public for several years.
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‘…as well as confirming that she clearly hasn’t spoken to a single member of the British public for several years’
Very true, but she’s clearly aiming this at the members (appropriate term that, i think) of the gravy train that is european politics…
Can I please leave now?
FLS, I’m sure you’re right. Blair’s support from the British public is basically zero but among the EU elite he is still highly regarded – which I find deeply insulting and distressing, given what he did to this country.
Helene, I know the feeling, although it’s hard to tell whether you meant the UK or the entire EU?!
I’m thinking the EU here. I don’t know whether you saw the piece by Walter Munchau in, I believe, Tuesday’s FT. HE WAS DENOUNCING THE GERMANS. (Sort of like finding D. Cameron tap dancing with goats outside Winchester Cathedral). Their sin? The courts have decided the EU Parliament wasn’t a proper one because it could not hold the executive to account. Imagine……
I’ve read a few articles suggesting that Germany might be the unlikely spanner in the Lisbon works, but I don’t really buy it.
LFAT,
It’s totally perverse. I think it could take us a generation to realise (never mind to try and repair) the full extent of the damage he and his party have done to this country – economically, socially, militarily etc.
Unfortunately, the political elite (in all forms) are only interested in furthering their vested interests or perverse aims and damn the rest of us who get to pay for it and suffer the consequences.
Maybe the great emperor will throw us some bread from his great european throne.
~Former Labour Supporter
Where’s the paper bag?
I can think of nobody better than a proven liar and a Catholic zealot who defies the doctrine of his chosen ‘faith’ on matters like homosexuality to represent Britain and Europe on matters of
hypocrisystate.That this was announced not by a predecessor of his as Labour leader but rather the *wife* of one of the least successful Labour leaders ever just makes it funnier. IF he gets the post then I for one will become so vociferously anti-EU that I’ll make UKIP look like a scout troop of moderation.
Seriously. The guy is a liar and, arguably, a war criminal. He lied repeatedly to the British people (“we’ll be whiter than white” or “45 minutes” or “WMDs” or “my Chancellor has abolished boom and bust”) and should, at best, be facing trial either in the British Courts (David Kelly) or the Haig (war crimes).
So who are the EU going to war with next?
“…although it’s hard to tell whether you meant the UK or the entire EU?! “
I’m beginning to think I want out of the human race!
I for one would welcome Blair as EU President.
A facile, soundbite-addicted wet blanket with delusions of grandeur and adequacy, who has a deep loathing of the concept of democracy he lauds, would appear to be the square peg that fits the square hole represented by the EU to utter perfection.
Plus the prospect, remote as it may be, of an EU President getting arrested for war crimes and hauled off to the Hague is far too delicious a concept to pass up!
The only regret is that he’d be unlikely be President whilst Brown was PM, I can think of little else that’d infuriate Comrade Brown more than Blair being lauded whilst he drowned in bad poll numbers. The resulting big girly strop from Brown might be the only ever case of a thermonuclear aneurysm.
I hate to break the news to you but a Mr Buzek was interviewed on Euronews and congratulated on being assured of being elected the next European President. In fact the interviewer went so far as to ask him why these deals are done behind doors and why alliances are created with there being no public debate or open vote in a European democracy. Mr Buzek shrugged his shoulders and smiled. He spoke extremely well about his desire to communicate how EU policies influence the lives of individuals.
Will you tell Tony or shall I?
It is good to know Baroness Kinnock is not only not in touch with the people but is not aware of the mood of the European Parliament either. You heard it here first.
I hope you’re right, Measured. That ‘our’ candidate, the Blessed St Tony of Bliar, should be outmaneuvered by a back-room euro stitchup is just priceless. I’d really enjoy that – an enjoyment only enhanced if we get to watch the war crim himself squirm as he attempts to choke down the results of what passes for ‘due process’ in the institution he seeks to rule us through.
I for one have had 10 years of rule by the blessed Blair and can only say that, when it comes to an institution passing 75% of our laws, I don’t want any more. I’d rather shoot the f***** and go to jail or get killed than live under his fiat once more and I can’t be alone…
I can only imagine that the totalitarian EU state would definitely come into being with the Bliar as the “Pres”.
I can’t help thinking that the EU has more megalomaniacs with their eye on that position than just Bliar.
With Brown and the Kinnocks backing him, what could possibly go wrong?
With Brown and the Kinnocks backing him, what could possibly go wrong?
He could get elected and lord it over us for another decade, heading the font of 75% of our new laws…
Scared yet?
I can imagine if B’liar was the President. There would be riots on the streets; or at least there should be. Trouble is, the British public are generally so apathetic that I doubt there would be.
“There would be riots on the streets”
I’d be taking my degenerative disease ridden hide up the best positioned clocktower with a sniper rifle, tbh. Live free or die trying.
Measured, Buzek will be President for the next two and a half years. Blair is lining up the first post-Lisbon President role which, as I understand it, is a lot more permanent….
A 7.65mm round is about 8 pence.
LFAT… So another non-elected politician. I can’t see the Spanish liking that one little bit!
Maybe seeing Blair ascend to the purple will finally wake the masses up to what the EU actually is.
Well, you never know, one must be optimistic etc.
I bow to your knowledge LFaT. The discussion in the interview occurred as stated.
How many years will this give Blair *immunity*? Isn’t Ahern standing too? My thoughts remain with the Kelly family.
Shaun. Blair is not a religeous zealot. He is something much worse. His “conversion” is based on the premise that “Brussels is worth a Mass”. You might be a Godless heathen but you are a Godless heathen who religeously believes in Atheism. You don’t change your fundamental belief for political advantage.
I don’t ‘religiously believe’ in Atheism; I see no evidence for a God, especially not in the Abrahamic mode and so I don’t believe in it. Atheism is not a belief, rather it is the absence of a belief in a god.
@Shaun Pilkington –
Dear Shaun.