This headline is immeasurably misleading:

No, the UK does not. Gordon Brown’s government does. That’s an entirely different thing.

Gordon Brown and his ailing government certainly does not represent the UK – as both opinion polls, by-elections, local elections, European elections, and every other possible measure of popularity shows.

The UK only managed to get rid of Tony Blair a little while ago. We don’t want him to lord over us as President of the EU just a few short years later! After all, he’s hardly shown himself as an international statesman: he hung onto George W Bush’s coattails whilst he was Prime Minister, and has singuarly failed to impress (or even do anything) in his role in the Middle East since.

Blair is a self-promoter. That is his sole skill. As a politician, he is consummate. But beyond that? Nothing.

We don’t want him to become EU President. We don’t even want an EU President in the first place! And the post has not even been created yet anyway – and won’t unless the Irish are forced in their second referendum to say “yes” to the Lisbon Treaty.