Tony Blair, British PM from 1997 to 2007, is one of the frontrunners to be the first President of Europe. Running the undemocratic EU is just the job for Tony (or should that be Boney?) Blair - he loves getting his snout in the trough, national sovereignty means nothing to him and he can lie through his teeth and get away with it.
Blair's attention-seeking wife , Cherie (Cherie "Antoinette") will also love it if the former British Prime Minister gets the job - she'll probably get to appear in the newspapers and on TV more (the staunch republican - a rare breed in Britain - is so devoid of manners that she was once photographed deliberately yawning whilst sitting with members of the Royal Family whilst attending the Highland Games).
But there is a problem - at least in the eyes of the British people, I'm not sure about the EU's other peoples - about the idea of an EU President.
The main one being that the British people have never even been asked whether or not they want an EU President. And even if they DID want an EU President, will we get to vote on who we want as the President? No. The anti-democratic EU will just force a President on us, whether we want one or not, and it, not us 531 million untrustworthy serfs, will choose who it will be.
If the rabid, loony, swivel-eyed pro-EU people wonder why the British have never been so keen on the whole EU "project" they could find that the answer lies in the question: "Can you really consider the EU to be a democracy?"
Undemocratic EUSSR is just the job for greedy Tony Blair
By Tony Parsons
30/10/2009
The Mirror
All-powerful: There are fears in Brussels of 'Boney' Blair and 'Cherie Antoinette'
Tony Blair is clearly hugely qualified to be the first President of Europe – he loves getting his snout in the trough, national sovereignty means nothing to him and he can lie through his teeth and get away with it.
On the presidency, Blair grandly announces that he is interested provided that it is “big enough”.
Does he mean the job? Or the limo?
Senior Labour figures like Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign secretary David Miliband have thrown their simpering support behind Blair. Very generous of them.
They should be thinking a bit more about how to hold on to their own jobs after the election.
There are many arguments in favour of crowning Blair President. He has massive experience of red carpets. The £275,000 a year salary would provide handy pin money. And he has a wife who has been out of the spotlight far too long.
Miliband coos like a groupie that Blair has the ability to “stop the traffic”. And few would argue that Blair has been responsible for more than his share of roadside bombs in the Middle East.
But there are arguments against President Blair. And the fact that he will be the chief sweaty-armpit witness at the Chilcot inquiry into Iraq is the least of them.
Here’s the thing – how can you be the President of 531million people when you have not been elected to the post?
Stop me if I am missing something but is it not grotesquely undemocratic to have some gurning fool and his hideous, rhino-bum wife swanning around the world in our name when we never asked them to?
I know that the whole EU project is built on undemocratic principles – they all promise us a referendum and then they all rat us out, and David Cameron will be even worse – but this is ridiculous.
The first President of Europe will be chosen by the leaders of the 27 EU states.
They carve the pie up between them. Those 500 million-plus EU citizens are just a bunch of dumb peasants who are too stupid to have their say.
The EU increasingly resembles the Soviet Union with iPods. The masses simply can’t be trusted with a vote. But the real problem is not a former Prime Minister who was good at two things – winning elections and feathering his many nests.
No, the problem is not Blair who made $15million (£9m) in America on the broken backs of British servicemen, Blair who has done more harm to multicultural Britain than Nick Griffin ever will, Blair and his freebie-loving wife.
The real issue is that the British people never asked for a President of Europe. I don’t remember being asked if I wanted a President of Europe. Did they ask you?
All I remember is Brown being so embarrassed when he signed the Treaty of Lisbon that he turned his great, mournful face away from the cameras.
Apologies for once more playing the token bug-eyed, mouth-foaming Euro-sceptic.
I wish I could just be a quiet little euro-serf. I wish I could just lie back and think of Brussels. I wish it did not matter. But it does.
Better men than me fought for the freedoms of this country. And they are fighting still. We simply do not have the right to so casually give away those freedoms.
Future generations will spit on our graves for being so feeble in the face of European integration.
President Blair? Why not? Tony and Cherie were born to ride on the Brussels gravy train.
Maybe the sight of them milking their role for all its worth will wake up a country that is sleepwalking into European integration.
It’s not too late to stand up for ourselves. But it will be soon.
mirror.co.uk
Blair's attention-seeking wife , Cherie (Cherie "Antoinette") will also love it if the former British Prime Minister gets the job - she'll probably get to appear in the newspapers and on TV more (the staunch republican - a rare breed in Britain - is so devoid of manners that she was once photographed deliberately yawning whilst sitting with members of the Royal Family whilst attending the Highland Games).
But there is a problem - at least in the eyes of the British people, I'm not sure about the EU's other peoples - about the idea of an EU President.
The main one being that the British people have never even been asked whether or not they want an EU President. And even if they DID want an EU President, will we get to vote on who we want as the President? No. The anti-democratic EU will just force a President on us, whether we want one or not, and it, not us 531 million untrustworthy serfs, will choose who it will be.
If the rabid, loony, swivel-eyed pro-EU people wonder why the British have never been so keen on the whole EU "project" they could find that the answer lies in the question: "Can you really consider the EU to be a democracy?"
Undemocratic EUSSR is just the job for greedy Tony Blair
By Tony Parsons
30/10/2009
The Mirror
All-powerful: There are fears in Brussels of 'Boney' Blair and 'Cherie Antoinette'
Tony Blair is clearly hugely qualified to be the first President of Europe – he loves getting his snout in the trough, national sovereignty means nothing to him and he can lie through his teeth and get away with it.
On the presidency, Blair grandly announces that he is interested provided that it is “big enough”.
Does he mean the job? Or the limo?
Senior Labour figures like Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign secretary David Miliband have thrown their simpering support behind Blair. Very generous of them.
They should be thinking a bit more about how to hold on to their own jobs after the election.
There are many arguments in favour of crowning Blair President. He has massive experience of red carpets. The £275,000 a year salary would provide handy pin money. And he has a wife who has been out of the spotlight far too long.
Miliband coos like a groupie that Blair has the ability to “stop the traffic”. And few would argue that Blair has been responsible for more than his share of roadside bombs in the Middle East.
But there are arguments against President Blair. And the fact that he will be the chief sweaty-armpit witness at the Chilcot inquiry into Iraq is the least of them.
Here’s the thing – how can you be the President of 531million people when you have not been elected to the post?
Stop me if I am missing something but is it not grotesquely undemocratic to have some gurning fool and his hideous, rhino-bum wife swanning around the world in our name when we never asked them to?
I know that the whole EU project is built on undemocratic principles – they all promise us a referendum and then they all rat us out, and David Cameron will be even worse – but this is ridiculous.
The first President of Europe will be chosen by the leaders of the 27 EU states.
They carve the pie up between them. Those 500 million-plus EU citizens are just a bunch of dumb peasants who are too stupid to have their say.
The EU increasingly resembles the Soviet Union with iPods. The masses simply can’t be trusted with a vote. But the real problem is not a former Prime Minister who was good at two things – winning elections and feathering his many nests.
No, the problem is not Blair who made $15million (£9m) in America on the broken backs of British servicemen, Blair who has done more harm to multicultural Britain than Nick Griffin ever will, Blair and his freebie-loving wife.
The real issue is that the British people never asked for a President of Europe. I don’t remember being asked if I wanted a President of Europe. Did they ask you?
All I remember is Brown being so embarrassed when he signed the Treaty of Lisbon that he turned his great, mournful face away from the cameras.
Apologies for once more playing the token bug-eyed, mouth-foaming Euro-sceptic.
I wish I could just be a quiet little euro-serf. I wish I could just lie back and think of Brussels. I wish it did not matter. But it does.
Better men than me fought for the freedoms of this country. And they are fighting still. We simply do not have the right to so casually give away those freedoms.
Future generations will spit on our graves for being so feeble in the face of European integration.
President Blair? Why not? Tony and Cherie were born to ride on the Brussels gravy train.
Maybe the sight of them milking their role for all its worth will wake up a country that is sleepwalking into European integration.
It’s not too late to stand up for ourselves. But it will be soon.
mirror.co.uk
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