Originally posted @ 2:38 am, Tue 27th Oct 2009
... maybe.
I mean, I don't know who all the candidates are yet. Indeed, the post doesn't exist yet.
But Newsnight got itself into a right froth over it Monday evening.
An expert - yeah, right - came on to tell us that countries across Europe were already deciding to not support Tony Blair cos the Tories would take it as a personal insult. Hmmmm.
And we know what impact the Tories in Europe have, right? Unable to work with mainstream parties of the right in Europe, they run off to lead the formation of a new group with extreme right-wingers from Poland and Latvia, only to find that their recommendations for their leader of such a group were then ignored.
And of course, the Tories have been working to try and stop the Lisbon Treaty being agreed at all. The post might only exist cos that effort is failing.
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"Miliband, who said at the weekend that the EU needed a president who would stop the traffic in world capitals,"
Now I'm sure David Miliband is trying to be helpful, but surely our aim is to keep traffic moving.
Anyway, David Miliband does highlight the reason Tony Blair may not succeed - Tony Blair would actually try to do something with such a post.
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And why should the Tories want to block Tony Blair? Last time, I saw David Cameron debating Blair, he led a standing ovation for him.
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Now that's an idea. Let me be the first person to call for a televised debate including all the candidates. I could have my name running across the bottom of Sky News TV for weeks.
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