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is Blair to become EU President ?
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No, Sarkozy and Merkel will stitch him up like a kipper. When your only backers are Gordon Brown and Silvio Berlusconi it's probably all over bar the shouting. I quite like the look of John Bruton personally, he's got the right pedigree, being a former Vice-President of the EPP bloc which Sarkozy and Merkel are in (but not our Tories, who prefer fringe d*ckheads from eastern Europe).
You also have to remember that no one on the left in Europe will back Blair because of Iraq, while most of the right will back whoever Sarko and Merkel want (which isn't Blair) so his chances were always fairly slim. Whoever's been pushing his candidacy* has amazingly managed to end up embarrassing Gordon Brown without much effort. Fancy that.
* T. Blair, one suspects.