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Brown bows to Blair (again) but Nick says “naff off”

“Get in” as they say on the football terraces.

 The BBC reports today that Gordon Brown has finally admitted defeat – and – presumably through gritted teeth, let it be known that he will  actively lobby for his predecessor Tony Blair to be named the first president of the European Council.

In the same report it is said that later today (Wednesday) Nick Clegg will  publicly declare his opposition to Blair’s appointment. I hope so. Tony Blair, is, afterall, not yet cleared of war crimes. He orchestrated what most of us recognise as an illegal war against Iraq. A war that the Lib Dems single-handedly opposed when the Labour party, the Conservative party, large chunks of the media and a significant proportion of the British population (no doubt as a result of the above) thought was “a good thing”.  

Nick – sing it loud and sing it clear. Until there has been an honest and open public investigation into the events surrounding the war on Iraq (i.e not the current one), a suspected war criminal - who went at odds with the rest of Europe on the matter – can’t surely be eligible for this post – no matter what ones feelings are on Europe more generally.