Jean-Claude Trichet started a non-renewable eight-year term as president of the European Central Bank on 1 November 2003, expiring on 31 October 2011.
Blair could not become President of the European Union without United Kingdom entry into the Eurozone. The rewards for driving ratification of the federal Europe Constitution through the Westminster Parliament (and removing permanently any UK veto over anything at all), might include the Presidency of the ECB as well if opposition to entry into the Euro is abandoned too.
Blair as the sheriff and Balls as his deputy - poor Gordon. Do you really trust your creature? Are you feeling lucky?
There's still time for a referendum.
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If the state of the UK after 10 years of Blair and Co is any guide, then putting them in charge of the EU will ensure that it will all come tumbling down. HG, you may have just discovered the key to solving all our problems!
For many years after the Second war it was the task of the French to keep the UK out of the reconstruction of Europe's governance; and they did.
Then after Heath it was the task of all to make the UK pay heavily to be there at all.
And all the time the governance of a former axis powers Europe took shape, and the UK was used to offer reassurance - we cannot do anything without unanimity and the UK is holding a veto (which it paid a fortune for).
Later members signed-up on EU terms. Now everything is organised, and that veto must be returned. And the UK parliament is returning it even as I type. Returning it for the mirage of high office and low troughing.
Blair was always dissociated from the Labour party; in much the same way he is dissociated from th UK.
He is not a UK political leader vying for European office. He is an international political elite candidate; he's to deliver the UK veto back into safe hands in return for a run at the presidency. He does that by bribing political leaders in the UK with the chance of EU office.
His Atlanticist stance won't win out, a more eastward looking president will make it, or at least a europe-centred candidate. But in the meantime, the perverted Labour regime he installed will deliver us up powerless and in some years wholly unrepresented.
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