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TONY BLAIR FOR PRESIDENT OF EUROPE?
Interview suggests he wants the job
Former PM was given four opportunities to dismiss the idea in an FT interview, but did not once do so
As well as giving an interesting speech at the New World, New Capitalism conference in Paris yesterday, a, Tony Blair found time to give a video interview to the editor of the Financial Times, Lionel Barber.
On the advice of Patrick Hennessy at Three Line Whip, I've just been watching it.
And my conclusion is that Blair is still very, very interested in becoming president of Europe.
He didn't exactly put it like that, of course.
But he was given four opportunities to dismiss the idea of being a candidate, and not once did he try to do so.
I got the impression that he wants the job quite keenly: watch for yourself and make your own mind up.
The issue comes up right at the end, after the questions on Gaza. Here is a transcript of the key exchange.
LB:
President Sarkozy made a very interesting allusion in his speech where he referred to your many talents and suggested perhaps that you shouldn't remain in retirement. Does that mean he's still supporting you for president of the European council?
TB:
As I always say about this, the job doesn't exist and at the moment it can't. So that's just speculation for the future. But I'm very happy with what I'm doing.
LB:
So you support ratification of the Lisbon treaty? Because it can't, you can't get the job ...
TB:
Well, I was always supportive of that. I mean, it's not anything new, of course. But were it ratified, who does it, that's a matter for the future.
LB:
You won't rule it out, you won't rule it in?
TB:
Yeah, but in not ruling it out or in, I'm not giving any comment other than the job doesn't even exist. So when it does exist, you can come back and ask me that question.
LB:
It's nice to have President Sarkozy's support?
TB:
Look, when you're in my position, it's good to have fans anywhere. So ... You know. But it means nothing at the moment because, as I say, the job doesn't exist and, whether it ever does, I really don't know.
The last time Blair expressed interest in becoming president of the European council, it became clear that he would face fierce opposition.
The job does not exist now because the Lisbon treaty has not been ratified by all EU countries, but if the Irish vote in favour when they hold their second referendum on it later this year, the issue will come back on to the agenda.
Barber should book up another interview now.
Hennessy says the interview reminded him what a superb communicator Blair is.
He also admits: "In a brave effort to restart the TB-GB wars, I strained my ears for any criticism of Brown – however coded – but could find none."
But Hennessy may have been looking in the wrong place.
Blair's speech yesterday was not anti-Brown by any description, but it did include a line about how the economic crisis was so complicated that when you ask the experts for advice about what to do, "the best and most honest say: we don't know."
Somehow, I can't imagine the self-proclaimed saviour of the world ever admitting such lack of certainty.
Posted by Andrew Sparrow Friday 9 January 2009 14.30 GMT guardian.co.uk
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Tony Blair for president of Europe? Interview suggests he wants the job
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 14.30 GMT on Friday 9 January 2009.
It was last updated at 14.46 GMT on Friday 9 January 2009.
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09 Jan 09, 3:09pm
Well, given his clear success as The Great Peace Bringer to the Middle East, I'd give the EU five more years before complete collapse. He'd have left the job by then, of course, and his hapless successor will be the one taking all the blame.
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· Didier
09 Jan 09, 3:35pm
Blair? Non merci.
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· Ordibehesht
09 Jan 09, 3:53pm
"Tony Blair for president of Europe?"
For the sake of peace and security of the world, I say loudly: No!.
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· coffeegirl
09 Jan 09, 4:11pm
The man knows no shame.
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· PJMolloy
09 Jan 09, 4:18pm
That sounds like a great idea. The EU headquarters is in Brussels, which is just 86 miles from the Hague. So they won't have to drag him far to stand trial (if there is ever any justice in the world) for the war crimes he's committed.
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· madioker
09 Jan 09, 4:30pm
if Blair aims at the EU presidency , Berlusconi , if asked , will not stop at the continental border , looking forward to be the first president of the world
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· sinewave
09 Jan 09, 4:31pm
It is good to see that so far at least, noone is being paid to write positive spin comments to accompany this story. Has the warmongering Christian lost his touch? ...But what's this about retirement...?
-" he referred to your many talents and suggested perhaps that you shouldn't remain in retirement. "
Isn't Blair earning piles working for Credit Suisse, as well as solving the situation in the Middle East, as well as advising some insurance conglomerate on opportunities provided by global warming?
'...he wants to spend the rest of his life promoting understanding between the world's religions...' - and he may manage to get everyone, of what ever religious persuasion, to agree that he is the maniac hidden in messianic.
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· pastis
09 Jan 09, 4:33pm
Blair should be given a post that befits his achievements - so regional manager of Homebase stores throughout Cumbria would be my choice.
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· no1else2vote4
09 Jan 09, 4:33pm
Well lets have a look at his CV shall we. I trust it's detailed, extensive and authoratative.
He's soooo desperate for his legacy not to be Iraq he'll try anything to get some recognition. But the day they finally admitted there were no WMD to be found, is the day his legacy was cast in stone.
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· dfic1999
09 Jan 09, 4:34pm
You sure this isn't some kind of super-secret UKIP plan to generate Britain's exit from the EU? That said, it wouldn't be the first time Blair's curried favour with right-wing politicians.
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· IvanMilat
09 Jan 09, 4:41pm
The man is a war criminal and has got off lightly so far for what he has done to cause/aid/abet the economic crisis. He should be happy collecting his millions from his rapt capitalist audience and keep out of public affairs, which he has done so much to poison. At the very least, we the citizens of the EU should get a vote on whether this malignant piece of work should have such a prominent role.
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· Ephemera
09 Jan 09, 4:43pm
I seem to remember that last this was raised (about a year ago), there was an online petition against him that garnered 27,000+ signatures...
...oh look, here it is: www.stopblair.eu/.
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· GoodBaad
09 Jan 09, 4:43pm
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· writeon
09 Jan 09, 4:43pm
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· Mafalda
09 Jan 09, 4:47pm
Just what we need! A president from the country that is determinedly not European (let's forget the Czech Republic for a moment) and, to boot, a religious guy who was.and still is a vassal to the unilateral diplomacy of the Bush administration. Since leaving office he has brilliantly illustrated himself in the Middle East obviously teaching the Israelis on how to imitate the American strategy of "shock and awe" with similar success. I hope his candidacy, official or not, falls on deaf ears. If Blair can be considered for President of Europe, why not pick an American straight away. We can apply to become the 51st State of the USA or form the Commonwealth thereof. Tata.
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· 2blackhawks1RPG
09 Jan 09, 4:51pm
He certainly has; what the germans call: ICH WEISS NICHT WAS
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· BrokenFace
09 Jan 09, 4:54pm
@pastis
Blair should be given a post that befits his achievements - so regional manager of Homebase stores throughout Cumbria would be my choice.
A bit harsh. Imagine if the regional manager of Homebase stores throughout Cumbria reads this.
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· mea1top
09 Jan 09, 4:55pm
Any chance of some comment and consideration of the substance of most of the interview - viz - possible need for change in the world's financial systems, what's going on in Gaza?
I'm a Brit living abroad - I do find it a bit depressing that apparently the only thing the Guardian reporter is interested in is basically trivial speculation over a non-existent future job. Maybe it's worth looking at what Tony Blair is doing currently for the quartet re the Middle East (and maybe do some actual reporting on what's happening in the West Bank re governance, the economy etc) and maybe it's worth thinking about Blair's comments on regulation.
I am still a Guardian reader, but increasingly find its articles fluffy and lazy - focusing on unimportant trivia - for good reporting I'm afraid I increasingly look to the New York Times.
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· Cunctator
09 Jan 09, 4:56pm
There used to be a saying:
there's some shit I won't eat.
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· Grinch
09 Jan 09, 5:01pm
dfic1999:
You sure this isn't some kind of super-secret UKIP plan to generate Britain's exit from the EU?
Actually, I rather suspect that if Blair was appointed EU President, it would be the rest of Europe that was super-pissed off and the Brits would actually be rather happy. I bet you the approval ratings of the EU would go up. It would be seen (unfortunately) by the great unwashed as the UK finally getting its chance to lord it over the greasy continentals. People have very short memories and childish, simplistic national pride trumps just about everything else.
Plus which, by then the incumbent Westminster govt will likely be Tory, the honeymoon will last about five minutes in the context of a continuing economic downturn and Tony will have plenty of opportunity to pontificate from a position of complete impregnability in Brussels on UK politics and generally make life difficult for Dave and the Bullingdon boys.
As for Ephemera's "stopblair" petition, well, that's all well and good but let's remember that ghastly Paedofinder-General's charter known as Sarah's Law got well over 700,000 signatures. That's the numbers we are talking when the British public is truly moved.
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· Mockingbird2
09 Jan 09, 5:10pm
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· myladybird
09 Jan 09, 5:13pm
If he is Middle East peace envoy where is he now? Seriously where is he and what is he paid for?
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· euroeuroeuro
09 Jan 09, 5:13pm
Which part of the word NO does Blair not understand?
Besides which any british "President of Europe" would most certainly have the usual pro-american special-agenda, meaning, "Keep Europe weak and divided" just as Blair has been doing throughout his entire stint as prime minister.
That would be a disaster for all Europe and in the end also for Britain.
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· Bayerischer
09 Jan 09, 5:16pm
When he was Prime Minister Europe did not seem to be of much importance. Is it another attempt to jump on the "gravy train?"
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· euroeuroeuro
09 Jan 09, 5:19pm
Oh and by the way, i almost forgot. Europe is on the whole democratic. That means we would all be able to vote for a President wouldn't we.
Tony, go for that Homebase job in Cumbria. It would save you quite some embarassment.
JEEEZ, does he have ANY idea how the great majority of Europeans actually regard him?!? Even Bush would have a better chance.
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· joda
09 Jan 09, 5:21pm
well this was a waste of journalistic space wasnt it....Europe is not Federal, will unlikely ever be so, therefore there is no central government or governing body and no need for a president.. there is a head of the European Commission and thats pretty much it. As much as I agree with the sentiment by my peers on Mr. Blairs appropriateness, Mr Blair has a point
THE JOB DOES NOT EXIST
so why ask the question
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· Mirpaz
09 Jan 09, 5:22pm
That is terrifying. Europe would be involved in a WWI war style, using depleted uranium ammunition (just like was used in the Yugoslavia conflict, Iraq, etc), the GBU small diameter Bomb being used in Gaza) and the threat of a nuclear war with nuclear explosions.
www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/sdb.htm
www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/sdb-pic... www.boeing.com/defense-space/missiles/sdb/index.html
www.boeing.com/defense-space/missiles/sdb/news/2007/q2/07...
www.boeing.com/defense-space/missiles/sdb/news/2001/q4/nr...
I think is a great idea to have the warmonger being president of the continent that created the WWII and then pushed the problem top Palestine and created the horror of Israeli occupation, where Arabs are paying for the mistakes of Europeans.
It is a great idea. Finally Europe will have the taste, again, of the impact of its policies of selling arms to countries around the world.
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11708
Again the great Catholic minion is working to do the bindings of the powerful, greedy members of the elite, the big oil companies:
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680
And while on the above site learn a thing or two about the economy.
Tony Blair is the worse that Oxbridge has produced. He is like Cecil John Rhodes, a greedy, dishonest, unscrupulous evil man. He is the scourge of humanity. He will make a great president in the EU. Stalin and Hitler will be surpassed by the glamours and delusions that will go over his head.
After 60 years of "peace" in Europe, it is about time to bring war home. Your governments have being exporting death all over the world. LOL
It is about time that Europeans get a taste of war. Tony Blair, reckless/vain that as he is; is the perfect man to the task - TO BRING WAR TO EUROPE LEAVE IT TO EU/CATHOLIC PRESIDENT TONY BLAIR !
I can see the headlines. LOL
As KucinicHi says: WAKE UP EUROPE! YOU ARE IN THE BRINK OF A MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF YOURSELVES AND THE PLANET!
Get Blair out of any public institution. Demonstrate day and night against him working on behalf of English or European people. Organize, resist, like the protests carried out by the Greenham Common women's camp against the deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. Don't forget Blair is Dubya's poodle. (Anyone that would humiliate oneself for obeying Dubya's moronic palns, needs to be examined by a psychiatrist! The man will do anything to stay in the lame light and screw the nations of Europe.
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· Malevolentia
09 Jan 09, 5:22pm
Aughhh!!! The pain! the pain!
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· laverite
09 Jan 09, 5:39pm
¿Blair, el hijo puta asesino mentiroso cobarde? no por favor!!!!!!!!!
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· dcmtr
09 Jan 09, 5:44pm
Who's Tony Blair?
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· amrit
09 Jan 09, 5:45pm
This guy Tony Blair is danger to humanity and should be kept away from decision making bodies.
He has difficulty in distinguishing what is right and what is wrong. Cannot you guys in UK find a place for him in some mental hospital.
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· mazza1230
09 Jan 09, 5:58pm
@ Ephemera
" I seem to remember that last this was raised (about a year ago), there was an online petition against him that garnered 27,000+ signatures...
...oh look, here it is: www.stopblair.eu/
27376 to be precise !
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· mok118
09 Jan 09, 6:13pm
Tony Blair is a moron. And his pal Gordon Brown is no better. In fact, who elected Gordon Brown to be the Prime Minister? I cannot, for the life of me, recall when those elections took place. I have heard that he was promised the position by Blair, before Blair was even elected as Prime Minister himself. Apparently, they both agreed at a restaurant in Islington that if Blair was elected Prime Minister he would step down after some time had passed and pass the reigns to Gordy.
A big, fat, slap in the face of democracy, if I did ever see one.
The EU needs no president. If it does, he should be elected by the citizens of Europe. Let us choose who should represent us as a continent. Don't impose one upon us - especially one that we don't even like. Does that not constitute a regime?
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· mikeinput
09 Jan 09, 6:17pm
What a shameless SOB he is.
Where's Dr. Henry Morgentaler when you need him?
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· ScepticMike
09 Jan 09, 6:30pm
Surely he should be in line for the President of the USA since he is working for them not us..
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· Laughman
09 Jan 09, 6:48pm
A religious zealot and war criminal for EU President? No thanks.
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· Naceer
09 Jan 09, 6:50pm
Is he taking his sexing up team with him to bring more shame on the rule of law and other democratic values? Talent is admirable only when it comes when good conscience. A lack of conscience mirrors an unintelligent trait in a personality, no matter how luminous one is perceived - only perceived.
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· PhysicsChick
09 Jan 09, 7:04pm
@mok118
All this stuff about "we didn't elect Gordon Brown" is getting tedious.
I know it's a technicality, but we (the electorate) don't elect our Prime Ministers. We didn't elect Tony Blair to be Prime Minister any more than we elected Gordon Brown. In fact, unless you happen to be on the electoral roll in the Sedgefield constituency, you didn't elect TB to be anything.
You vote for an MP to represent you in parliament. If there's a majority of MPs from one party, the Queen invites them to form a government on her behalf. The PM is chosen from among the MPs who form that majority. And that party is completely entitled to choose someone else. This isn't (despite other poster's comments) the US, and we don't vote for A Leader. We vote for a local representative, within a party structure.
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· stuka77
09 Jan 09, 7:15pm
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09 Jan 09, 7:19pm
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· ElliottCB
09 Jan 09, 7:20pm
Oh, great. Now we're suggesting that the EU declare war on the Umma by sticking its Saturday night finger up at a million dead and electing a war criminal. Wonderful idea. Let's hope Blair is the only one thinking it.
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· nobodyisinnocent
09 Jan 09, 7:42pm
I was mocking Mockingbird. Arschloch for sure, but not klein, but so gross you can drive a truck through it.
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· nobodyisinnocent
09 Jan 09, 7:44pm
sorry Mockingbird, you're clearly ahead here.
i just remembered there's a comic strip character called kleines arschloch, i have seen but know little about.
i shall google immediately.
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· mikeytums
09 Jan 09, 7:47pm
For the fact he turned his back on 2 mllion people in England alone. How do`s he have the conscience to then stand in front of the whole of Europe. Unless his idea is again to play happy family with the so call upper house...
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· nutsch
09 Jan 09, 7:55pm
jesus christ.
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· AndrewSparrowReplies
09 Jan 09, 8:31pm
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To mea1top - I'm sorry you feel this way. We wrote about Blair's views on Gaza at length on the site earlier this week (I know, because I covered it myself) and there's been plenty of comment on Gaza too, mostly from people who know more about the situation than me. Blair's comments on regulation were quite interesting, but the FT itself only gave them a single column on page 2 and I didn't feel the need to follow them up. I think it's important to distinguish between news stories, which we use to report the serious stuff in the paper and on the website, and blogs, which we often use to cover stuff that doesn't fit the conventional news template (perhaps because it's too interpretative, like my analysis of the Blair interview) that that nonetheless is interesting to people who follow politics. Personally, I think the question of whether Blair becomes president of the European Council is something that's worth writing about ( but I spent years following the guy around Westminster so I may be biased). But you're right about the NYT; it's good.
To joda - Because there's a very good chance that ithe job will exist before too long, which is why people like Blair and Sarkozy are already taking an active interest in who fills it.
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· easilypleased
09 Jan 09, 8:34pm
this would be great news - he's always been a pretty straight kinda guy.
Ask anyone who knows him.
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· Verdi
09 Jan 09, 8:34pm
There can be no way this individual should be a European president.
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· kotakinabalu
09 Jan 09, 8:44pm
Given his success in spreading war, mayhem and the slaughter of innocents on a mammoth scale, and now spending all his waking hours defending the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, is there any job he couldn't do?
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· outofsight
09 Jan 09, 8:47pm
1. there is not, and never will be a president of europe
2. it's really easy to bash tony blair, forgetting the fact that he made some very possitive moves in domestic policy and in northern ireland
3. the "we didn't elect Gordon Brown" argument is really anoying, conveys a complete lack of understanding in the British political system and is totally irrelivent to this article.
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The problem I was talking about with my ND filter.
Polaroid SX-70 Land
Polaroid 600 Write-on Matte film
2-stop ND filter
Because of the filter, you are unable to use the fastest shutter settings for a majority of shots. I can't wait to get my model 2 up-and-running so I can take advantage of the fast shutter speeds.
That's Ben Franklin Forever!
Quincy Market
Dick told me that he's been doing this for years. He goes all over the place to different schools to teach the children about Ben Franklin.
At first, he wouldn't tell me his name.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"BEN FRANKLIN!"
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