You have got to be kidding me!Tony Blair is seriously being touted as President of the European Council, with Gordon Brown supporting him.Has the world gone mad?
Tony Blair was not a committed European. During the ten years that he spent in Downing Street, he was so pro American to the point of embarassment. He willingly supported Bill Clinton when he bombed Iraq in 1998,and joined in the war in Kososvo.After 9/11, Blair was the first European leader to fly to Washington to express his support to George W Bush.Blair willingly agreed to the invasion of Iraq, even though there was no link between Saddamm Hussein and Al Qaeda. We were told repeatedly that there was intelligence that indicated that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and that there was clear and present danger to our security. Blair stood in parliament and spouted all this bullshit, perhaps convincing himself that this was the truth.
The French and the Germans were not convinced, and for their sins, they were subjected to attacks in the media, basically calling them cowards.How can Blair call himself a good European?
We never got a referendum on the euro,party because he was too much of a pussy with Rupert Murdoch. The support of the Sun was seen as far more important than our long term economic future.That was Tony Blair's committment to the European project.
I suspect that ego and vanity is a major factor in this. Some leaders become addicted to motorcades and entourages that they find it hard to let go.
Tony Blair is just the wrong man for the job.
