Petition starts against Blair EU president candidacy
(STRASBOURG) - Tony Blair has yet to run for the future job of European Union president, but a European lawmaker named Goebbels on Wednesday launched a petition calling for him to be ruled out.
Luxembourg socialist Robert Goebbels, backed by German lawmakers, tabled a motion in the European parliament seeking the 318 signatures needed for it to take on any legal weight.
He said the post should go to someone from a country that uses the euro single currency, that is in the Schengen open borders area and which applies the EU's charter of fundamental rights -- none of which is the case in Britain.
The leaders of the EU's 27 member states will make the appointment, and former British premier Blair has the backing of successor Gordon Brown as well as Italy's Silvio Berlusconi.
However, Luxembourg has already come out strongly against him while the crucial positions of Germany and France remain unclear.
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No to Blair
He has lied to and stolen from the British people – shredding large quantities of documents “accidentally” weeks before he left office. He is closely implicated in the deaths of inconvenient critics and he must bear with Bush responsibility for making the world an infinitely more dangerous place for our children.
He and his wife will go down in the history books as dangerous, grasping buffoons along with Mr & Mrs Marcos.
If any more reason is needed not to commit the folly of making him President – he has failed abysmally in his position as Middle East Envoy – having been rebuked for failing to report on his progress. He was no doubt too busy holding court in Jerusalem where he occupies an entire floor of the best hotel in town at a cost of £400,000 per year to the British Taxpayer.In February 2009, while Palestinians in Gaza were still digging themselves out and mourning their dead, he accepted a $1 million prize from Tel Aviv University as the "Laureate for the Present Time Dimension in the field of Leadership.
Blair for President? Not if we have a vestige of sanity left.