If the Conservatives can make alliance with large Labour factions to enable the educational reform bills to pass and establish the academies programme, then presumably channels are open to work for a damaging hold-up to the ratification process.
The suspicion must be that the blatant nods and winks in Blair's direction as potential EU president are there to deter such a provision of alliance from Blair's Labour party faction. Should it all go through smoothly, is the pretence, Blair will be in over all charge, and you will be rewarded in the paradise of the New Europe, and old Labour exile will be irrelevant.
But Blair has no credibility or acceptability to the EU hard core (and the new accession states are all to some degree clients of that hard core) - the UK policy of enlarge the Union and dilute the federalist dream has been defused and the EU is merely far bigger than it might have been before this ill-conceived policy was pursued by the UK; but the intention has not been forgotten - and, further, no member-state outside the inner Euro circle can provide a president.
Blair's wing in the parliamentary Labour party should note how powerless they are, both in the mass party and the sectoral (principally trade union base), and form alliance that strengthens their policies, not with hold alliance for a hopeless dream of presidential EU power.
Further, even if they will not act on principle, they can, like the member for Edgbaston, recognize that there might be individual, constituency, electoral advantage in joining to the national, rather than Party, interest in confounding the destruction of UK, (and other European nation state), sovereignty.
People wish to be of Europe, but not drowned in it. And should an election ever come again, will support those of whatever formal Party who put a spoke in the wheel of European federalism.
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Surely Blair has already damaged his chances of becoming EU President in too many ways - apart from poodling Bush, lying over Iraq WMD and boycotting further European integration whenever he could.
Namely, (1) he does not have the support of his own country's government. (2) His own country's government does not have much of a say in European affairs these days anyway. (3) Romano Prodi - if ousted as Italy's Premier - would make a superior contender for the job.
Looks as if Romano Prodi doesn't have enough of the Senate, C. But after those revolting expressions of rabid homophobia, and SPITTING on senators of the centre right by the ultra-Christian right, who would want it?
I thought the Berlusconi extreme right had covered themselves in ignominy jeering at a life senator's physical frailty when the Nobel Prizewinner for Medicine, Rita Levi Montalcini, had to use a stick to lean on when walking to the vote.
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