Blow for Blair
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more from News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8333192.stm
Tony Blair's hopes of becoming president of the European Council are fading after his supporters failed to secure the backing of EU leaders.Earlier Gordon Brown said Mr Blair would be an "excellent candidate" but Downing Street is now less optimistic.
Earlier Mr Brown had told the leaders at a fringe meeting at the EU summit that they should "get real" and grasp a unique opportunity to get a "strong progressive politician" like Mr Blair as president.
The prospect of a Blair presidency has also proved controversial in the UK.
Both the Tories and Liberal Democrats have said they would oppose it.
And a YouGov poll in Friday's Daily Telegraph suggested that less than a third of British voters would support Mr Blair's candidacy
What I want to know is who exactly makes up the almost a third, that would support Tony Blair's presidency, must have been his and the bush family.
But seriously, whether he gets the job or not, the fact that his name was even mentioned just shows how the EU actually works, they obviously don't care about the thoughts and feelings of the hundreds of millions in the EU and they will just do what they like. And soon we are to sign over all our rights to undemocratically elected leaders hell bent on money, power and destruction, but mind you, thats the kind of government we've had all along.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8333192.stm
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- News, News and Politics, Webmash
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- tags:
- President, EU, Tony Blair, Dictatorship
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emmahill
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I LOVE how these things work! So many column inches have been devoted to a hypothesis. It's like the media have already created a great story out of nothing. Blair, once a "shoe-in" for the job (despite no electoral evidence) is now very unlikely to assume the role (that's yet to exist) as he's fallen out of favour with European heavyweights (again, according to whom!?)
Priceless.
- 3 months ago
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emmahill
