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So much for Conservative unity on Europe. Had to expel a really decent and hard working MEP for being too moderate. Euro is the Clause 4 for the Tories and Mr Cameron has not resolved this split.

- Andrew, London

Bliar should go back to the hole from which he came and stay there permanently!

- Maria, London

The only people that can stop Tony Blair becoming President are the Irish in their referendum in October. How exactly do Cameron and Hague hope to stop this event while they are in opposition?. Cameron has much to learn and a Tory complacency is setting in which is largely unjustified given their talentless and corrupt front bench. The Tories have a mountain to climb to win a bare majority and I still doubt they can do it.

- Michael Riley, London

Keith Price

Whilst you'd like to deflect focus away to the limp opposition that Britain currently has, the article is specifically about Bliar and his apparent thirst for power wherever he can find it.

It may have escaped your notice, but popular support for the Labour Party has been falling since before the last election, mainly due to the deceitful way Bliar hurled Britain into a war that arguably the majority did not want, nor could the country afford. Presumably, knowing that his 'legacy' was in grave danger, Bliar stood aside and let someone else run the party machine over the cliff and to almost certain humiliation at the next election to the weakest opposition this country has seen.

His gimmick driven world of spin and self serving claims are frankly just the tip of the iceberg of reasons why he should at all costs be prevented from taking the EU presidency.

After all, why are we even talking about such a post when the position isn't even legal yet ?

- John, Twickenham

Of course, the Tories cannot "block" this at all - either they don't know the rules or are kidding us (surely not?). And for all those hung up on the Iraq War, the advent of Tony Blair as M Le President comes at exactly the time when many socialist groups are advocating the right for the EU to "wage war in its own right" (did anyone see the militarist start to the opening of the new session of the European Parliament?)...cometh the man, cometh the hour. As they say.

- Damian Hockney, London, UK

Now you reap the whirlwind! Don't say you weren't warned all those years ago...
Cameron? Loser..... Time to find a Cromwell.

- Wayne Barnes, London

There are 2 kinds of labour voters: traitors who want to see my country destroyed; and idiots. Which kind are Price and Daniels? Oh, maybe they are just welfare scroungers

- John Bell, Nottm, UK

Blair is a criminal with many faces and names to match: B.Liar, Miranda, Princess Toni, Phony Tony and he must be put on trial before being elected to any post. Just think he's being put into office by unelected Kinnock, unelected Mandelson and a job swap unwanted Prime Minister. Excuse me but democracy please!!! "what's gone wrong" ?

- Mike, London

I should like to congratulate Keith Proice on his unstinting support of Blair!
I'll just remeind you that Tony Blair beat tyhe Tories and got elected 3 times by the British public, while Hague and Howerd and Major Cameron.....(complete)

- Keith Price, Luton, England

President Bliar will be worth a few thousand votes for UKIP and true Tory MPs.

- Richard Meredith, huntingdon

#Dawn Noe, London

Wow!600? There are only 65 million people in the UK and another 700 million throughout Europe. Nearly there, then.

- Val Daniels, Mijas Costa, Spain

I should like to congratulate Keith Proice on his unstinting support of Blair and Brown every time they are raised as issues in the ES.

When do you expect to receive the gong, Keith?

- Captain Black Of The Mysterons, London, England

Go to http://stopblair.eu/ over 600 new signatures since yesterday afternoon. Tell your friends - stop this travesty from happening. While you are at it you could sign this one too and press for him to be brought to the Hague http://www.petitiononline.com/BWCF/petition.html

- Dawn Noe, London

Val Daniels vision seems like that of an ostrich with its head between its legs and looking up. There is no evidence so far that British subjects paid by the EU have anyone's interest at heart other than their own , whether ex-labour or ex-conservative members of parliament. They serve their time grab un-accounted expenses and retire with a gold-plated pension.
On retirement, they sign a document saying that they they will not criticize the EU; if they do, they will forfeit their pensions.
Perhaps the worst was Kinnock the anti-corruption man who sacked the accountant who was pointing out the corruption. A few years before, of course , he was anti-EU.

- Sally70, Bedford

Thank God for Tory Parties Common Sense, I least they know the man would cause massive splits his EGO is bigger than an October Cabbage. The Tories have gone up in my estimation !

- David Ashton, West Jutland, Denmark

What would even remotely qualify him for the role? Bliar (and Crash Gordon have) almost bankrupted the UK, and he has made no progress in the Middle East.

- Adam, London

If this odious man(Blair) becomes 'president' of the EU that will merely confirm to the British public what an atrocious organization the EU has become, and hopefully speed up UK withdrawal from a disastrous experiment.

- Jon Kent, Hertford. UK

Blair as EU president is fantastic news. It would, once and for all, turn the British public against the EU to such an extent that the incoming Conservative government would be easily able to win a referendum to take us out. Bring it on!

- Derek, London

"What is it if a man gains the whole world but in himself he is without a soul ... Bliar and his kind push,shove and struggle in order to ensure their place in hell.!
What a vile sanctimonious comment - Hugh. Yony Blair and his family have long been decent Chritians abd sent their three hids to decent Carholic state schools. He was elected by the British public three times in ptrference to the Tory likes of Major and Hague. Don;t start aacting the judge of who goes to ueaven and hell, it just doesn't become you

- Keith Price, Luton, England

That would be like putting the cat amongst the pigeons. Europeans don't want a new president who will divide them and take them to another meaningless, bloody war based on missleading information. Will his new position lead to him being responsible for heading up the war crimes?

- Frank, Copenhagen, Denmark

Every time I see the coffin of a British soldier coming home, I think of Tony Blair and luxury flats for his sons. The thought of him becoming President of Europe makes me want to vomit.!
While for Dvid Cameron the newapapers report -
“But the fascination with bike-riding Cameron's '£30million' refuses to go away. As does gossip of his alleged personal family fortune, helped by the Mail on Sunday's disclosure that he paid off the £75,000 mortgage on the £1.5 million home in North Kensington, London, that he owns with his wife Samantha, after they took out a £350,000 taxpayer-funded HSBC mortgage on his designated Oxfordshire constituency second home.
While within the rules, this is precisely the kind of financial jiggery-pokery for which other MPs have been criticised in recent weeks, as details of the way they have abused their second homes allowances have been made public. “
For his part, Cameron claims he was able to pay off the mortgage on his London home by selling shares. But he is still open to the charge that someone who's clearly worth a few bob was 'playing' the system by claiming more than £21,200 from taxpayers in 2005-6, for the mortgage interest paid on his constituency home.

- Keith Price, Luton, England

Dave Cameron sholud do something about his money grabbing rich mate m'ps .before he worries about Tony Blair.sour grapes here i think?

- Rocky, london uk

Great news This is just the opportunity to make our excuses and leave the EU

- Jack Spratt, Richmond, Surrey

My God loser Blair is back from his hole in the ground. Tony, why don't you just do the entire world a favour and disappear!

- Mary, London

I read that Glenys Kinnock has recommended Blair for the post. Why should we take any notice of this half-witted gravy train rider whose only claim to fame is to be the wife of a failed politician. How the Labour party looks after its own!

- Tom Williams, Oxford UK

It's as simple as this LEAVE EUROPE ONCE AND FOR ALL. We won't have to bother ourselves with the likes of Blair and Brown ever again.

- Annie, Devon

#Paddy Croydon

Where on earth have you been? Do you actually know what is going on in the world? There are 42 countries in Europe and throughout the world who are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan in the UN led coalition. Many of those countries have lost servicemen and women, including Canada, Norway, Italy and France. Better to have an ex British PM as President of the EU; at least he would have an eye on what was in the interests of Britain. Ignore the howls of anguish and denial from the Tories; last week David Cameron said he would support Tony Blair's nomination. When push comes to shove he will do just that. The awful mess he has made in leaving the EPP majority group in the EU Parliament, and joining some questionable splinter group on the right, does not bode well for British influence. The fact that he forced the Leader of the British Conservative MEPs to make way for a Polish nobody says much about his leadership, or lack of it. We will need all the influence we can muster as a result of the Conservative mess they have created for themselves. The only Conservative MEP who has any clout now is the one who had the Whip withdrawn and is now standing as an Independent Conservative. At least he has shown some backbone' The rest of them, and David Cameron, just behaved like Polish poodles.

- Val Daniels, Mijas Costa, Spain

It goes without saying that we peasants don't get a vote in this; it tells you all you need to know about the EU.
'No taxation without representation' sounds like an old motto worth dusting down. It's shameful that our protection from this happening depends on the vote being taken in another country: a country that has already voted No, but has been bullied into voting again until it gives the 'right' answer.

- Mdj E10, london uk

Very disturbingly, I don't think that the alarming news and manner of Blair's intended sleazily undemocratic political 'resurection' has yet to even flicker on the BBC news radar.
Or for that matter has the use of an 'EU flag' and 'EU anthem' and 'EU army' at the recent reopening of the EU 'Parliament', all having supposedly been removed from the contentious EU Treaty when reprinted as The Lisbon Treaty!
One has to seriously ask why?

Those well known 'social-democrats' like Mandelson, The Kinnock Klan, Blair and [wannabees] Brown, Straw and Harman, who revel in undemocratic power without accountability, in loftily arrogant positions of oppulent self-indulgent lifestyles, thoroughly enjoy greasing each others mutual self advancement and self grandisement without any serious challenge from their multitude of media friends, whatsoever.

- Dave, Cumbria

Absolutely right. What has Blair done for Great Britain. Got us into unjustified conflicts in Iraq (remember thr dodgy dossier) and Afghanistan in lives as well as cost. Lefta legacy of over politically correctness, higher taxes,. created a wider gap between the rich and the poor. To make things worse Blair has left us G Broon an unelected PM who as chanceller and now has destroyed the economy, raided our pensions and hasn't the faintest idea how to run the country. Blair meanwhile ran of whie the going was good to make millions of pounds from public speaking leaving the ship to sink. It would better if he stood guilty of war crimes than president of of the EU - he is not worthy.

- Strongbow Sullivan, Paris,France.

What is it if a man gains the whole world but in himself he is without a soul ... Bliar and his kind push,shove and struggle in order to ensure their place in hell.

- Hugh, London England

Who is the only man to start 2 major wars and then later headed a peace envoy in the Middle East to try and solve another area of conflict? You got it in one...T.B.

- Questions?, London

What is even worse is that he would think
that he was acting under divine guidance and doing it
all "in the name of Jesus".No doubt invading Iraq was also doing it right for Jesus. In the real world, they take people away for less than that. But fortunately I don't
think the other European leaders would want to see him
as president!

- John, Brno, Czech Republic

Blair gets my vote ,why should we be the only ones to suffer its the Eu's turn in the barrel

- Ereed, Bournemouth,UK

What a sad depressing state of affairs, country on it's knees left with a lying, un-elected opportunist, self important, un-intelligent bully as Prime Minster - A country bankrupt both financially and morally and here is the lying opportunist Blair who cut a deal for the Job of PM with the labour Party and now, having left at the first opportunity, lavished himself with post PM quasi celebrity luxuries such as a massive property portfolio and Private Jobs and a demi God role in the middle east, just in time to call in the other deal he cut for the job of President of Europe by pretending to offer the electorate a referendum. Disgusting - How can these people moralise about criminals when they are far far worse.

- David Grey, london

Democracy in the sense of voting to choose who governs you is being abolished. Internally by quangoisation and externally by handing power to the EU.

This suits the big political parties since they can enjoy the trappings of office in two separate career paths at home and in Europe while dodging responsibility for decisions.

I'd like to believe Cameron has an intention to reverse the process but his record so far is of making appropriate speeches and then indicating the opposite in his pronouncements about specific issues. His recent statement about leaving public sector pay levels to be decided by a quango was classic.

Will we get a referendum on the EU constitution Mr Cameron?

- Mike Newland, London, England

Now its clear why arch parasite kinnoch was pushed into position by this corrupt rotten government, blair with his illegal war and ruuning after bush like the idiot he is now wishes to complete the job and deliver Europe to the America he adores so much. Blair do us all a favour take your greedy family and go and live in America im sure bush can find you a job within your abilities, cleaning out the stables perhaps.I for one will do anything to block hikm being appointed.

- Alan Davey, London

I have to agree with Ron of Chislehurst; there can be no better leader of the EEC than Tony B.lair; ‘’they say’’ set a thief to catch a thief; in my opinion; the Arabian story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves is a good description of the EEC.

It would be nice for the UK if he was elected president, and he never stepped foot in the UK again, is there anyway we can revoke his British Passport?

Ex British Prime Minister, Middle East peace envoy; and now European President, speaks volumes about politicians today.

This all makes Ronnie Biggs and the Train robbers look like angels; yet only Ronnie is still in Jail for his crime.

This is the democracy and freedom we fought two world wars for; what a waste of time that all was, and what a waste of honest peoples lives, so that this kind of political scum could rise to the surface to rob and abuse all the people of Europe.

Everyone has less rights today than they had only 20 years ago; and slowly but surely they will diminish even further until they are zero.

We will have to have a revolution to stop all this turning us all into slaves; this is what happens when governments are corrupted and no-longer listen or care about the people.

Never say Never?

- Mickinlondon, london.

The Tories can easily stop Blair; they need only state that if elected they will withdraw Britain from the Lisbon Treaty, should it have come into force.

The post of EU President is created by the Treaty which was negotiated by Blair with the connivance of Brown (I wonder what the deal was this time!). Blair also promised a referendum which has subsequently been denied to the British people. The Treaty's ratification by the UK therefore has no moral legitimacy.

What an embarrassment it would be for Blair should his own country expose and destroy this sham!

Do Cameron and Hague have the necessary courage to draw a line in the sand on behalf of their country? Judging by Hague's recent wriggling when pressed by Paxman on the matter, probably not!

What has this once great country done to deserve such an unprincipled gaggle to govern us?

- John C, Leatherhead, UK

Now we know why he converted to Rome,
Catch the Catholic Vote of Europe.
Cunning.
john

- John Nicholson, Girona Spain

It now becomes clear why Blair was so pro eastern europe and championed their cause so strongly, why he was so keen to allow eastern europeans to come and work in the UK when other countries such as Germany and France resisted. He was sacrificing British jobs for his own future gain knowing that if he supported them they would support him in the future (i.e. when he tried to become EU president) - all makes sense now. If only Blair and the Kinnocks would take their noses away from the political trough life would be so much more bearable.

- Andy Davids, London

Every time I see the coffin of a British soldier coming home, I think of Tony Blair and luxury flats for his sons. The thought of him becoming President of Europe makes me want to vomit.

- Beatriz, London

If Lisbon comes into effect and there is a President then surely it's better for the UK that it's one of our fomer PMs. Some of the commentators here aren't living in the real world where you have to make realistic choices. Am not especially a fan of Blair, but am fed up with the hysterical reaction to certain politicians: whether it be Blair, Brown or, indeed, Thatcher.

- Alan, London

Hague seems to be trying to make a name for himself too. An eye on the future PM job perhaps.
T H Leeds

- Thomas Hayes, Leeds UK

I have not been a Conservative voter but I admire them now for their attempt to block the war criminal Blair in his bid for EU presidency. They might even get my vote next time.

- Thomas Hayes, Leeds UK

This is all we need. Another 2 years of that grinning jackass Bliar strutting his warped sense of self importance across the European Union. His first priority, no doubt, will be to follow the orders of the French and German Governments to push through further legislation to speed up the creation of a United States of Europe. Just look at the legacy of Bliar, McBroon and Mandleson over the last 14 years. The UK has been bankrupted by their fiscal policies of tax and spend, there is mass unemployment, Parliament has been brought into complete disrepute and is now full of thieves and fraudsters out to make a quick buck, the country is being drained of much needed finance by fighting two wars in countries that have absolutely nothing to do with us. Why aren't other European neighbours supplying troops or equipment to fight the Taleban?. Simple they are keen to exploit all the potential for exporting their home produced goods to these countries, but why waste their own resources fighting an expensive war when the Americans and British will do it for them. Go away Bliar you have been shown to care for nobody but yourself and your cronies.

- Paddy, Croydon Uk

I cannot think of anybody more damaging to the interests of the UK than Tony (WMD) Bliar.

Except for Gormless Brown.

And Jackboot Straw.

And Bruiser Prescott.

And useless Blunket.

And two-faced Meddlesum.

WHAT A GAGGLE OF PARASITES.

- Reuben Camara, Republic of Morecambe, UK

I would vote tory just to stop Blair, and I'm a scoialist! I loathe the man, why can he just get out of our lives and go and sit and be ashemd of himself in a dark place and make penance for the untold suffering, misery and death that he forced upon the Iraqi's, on normal average Iragi mums, dads and children, people who just want security and a good life for their families, people like us in all but skin colour and culture. Bring Blair to justicce, prosecute him for war crimes now!

- Elliot, brighton

Please NO. I agree with all the above.

- Peter, sarnen, switzerland

The EU is home to a great many failed, corrupt or incompetent politicians. I couldn't think of a more appropriate person than Tony B.Liar to be their leader.

- Ron, Chislehurst

Cameron os just being a spiteful numpty trying to block this appointment. All parties support it except his Tory Party.

- Keith Price, Luton, England

Be a difficult job for bLiar to do, what with him being on trial for war crimes.

- Kate, London

If B'liar lands the post of EU president, then it will become painfully clear that morals have no place in our society.
The only hope I have is that, if B'liar gets his way, Britain will leaves the union as soon as spineless Brown is voted out. Bring back brains and less broon.
Start running England with a smaller but far more effective business team.

- Ex London, germany

with the mystery of how blair instigated the iraq war and evrything else that seems to have happened almost since the day of his departure it would be unwise to even consider this

- Geoffrey Newman, hastings sussex u.k.

Thank god, someone with sense! Blair should be stopped.

- Jk, London

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