President Blair

That infamous dissembler Tony Blair is reported to be doing some last minute toadying and fawning of EU leaders to revive support for his 'unannounced' candidacy for the post of EU President. I had thought that Gordon Brown had scuppered Blair's chances by voicing in such fulsome terms Blair's qualifications for the job, whilst adding "of course there are other candidates." Nice one, Gordon. But Blair's inflated ego is not so easily deterred.

Blair already has a number of jobs, including:

Senior political adviser to JPMorgan Chase investment bankers etc. Reports of his remuneration range from 500K to 2 million a year.

He leads the Tony Blair Faith Foundation which aims to encourage understanding of and between between the major religions. Nothing wrong with that per se, but one can't help doubt the sincerity of Blair's own faith. He waited until after he quit as Prime Minister before converting to Catholicism for fear of being branded a 'nutter' and since converting he has criticised the Pope for being out of touch with modern life. One might agree with him on both points but shouldn't he have the courage of his convictions and not undermine the leader?

There's the Tony Blair Sports Foundation through which Blair hopes to recruit volunteers to train as sports coaches.

The Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative is a registered charity which aims to improve the way African countries govern themselves.

Blair is the representative for the so-called middle east diplomatic Quartet. Ironic.

And he undertakes lecture tours of North America for which he is handsomely paid,

Meanwhile, he's writing his memoirs.

A busy little fellow isn't he? So I was wondering where in his schedule he is going to fit in being President of the EU, notwithstanding that he has been revealed to have lied in order to justify the invasion of Iraq, leading to many thousands of deaths. Presumably he doesn't think that disqualifies him. But then he is quite used to facing two ways at once.