October 2009 Archives

What is it with the NuLabour political zombies ? No sooner has the collective fury of the public against the appointment of Tony Blair as the unelected "President of Europe" started to be felt, then a couple of stories are planted in the media, citing anonymous sources, e.g. The Times: David Miliband touted for EU foreign post as Blair's chances wane and The Guardian: David Miliband tipped as EU foreign minister

Technically the job title iis "High Representative for Foreign Affairs".

Is this some sort of plan B, bearing in mind that it is inconceivable that both position would be filled by candidates from the same EU country at the same time.

David Miliband is an awful NuLabour apparatchik, who has crept smoothly from University to Think Tank to political commissar, to Minister
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Whilst Minister for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)., Miliband was responsible for the scandals and fiascos at the Rural Payments Agency, which involved incompetent,out of control civil servants and managers. This agency, for which Miliband was responsible for, manged somehow, due to its bureaucratic red tape and IT disasters, to utterly fail in its only mission, to properly distribute European Union Farm subsidy payments, its only function. It did this so utterly incompetently, that the European Commission ended up fining the UK government as a result, after causing unnecessary financial hardship to the United Kingdom's farmers.

Whilst in charge of DEFRA, Miliband also came out withy an incredible control freak plan for a tradable Personal Carbon Credit Card, which would also track the smallest details of people's daily lives, e.g. buying food, or fuel or travel etc.This wold have instantly have created a black market for spivs, and speculators, and would have been abused by private sector and state snoopers, intent on prying into people's private lives. No doubt there would also have been some Soviet GOSPLAN style rationing attempts to fly in the face of economic forces of supply and demand, This would not have saved the planet from global warming, but it is indicative of the NuLabour bureaucratic control freak mindset, untainted by practicality, open to abuse and corruption, which they are willing to force on to the rest of us.

That alone should disqualify Miliband from representing the European Union as a whole, but there is more evidence of his incompetence and liability as an international diplomat.

Promoted to Foreign Secretary, to prevent him from challenging the incompetent Gordon Brown for the unelected leadership of the Labour Party, David Miliband has been a disaster in that role.

Incredibly, he managed to personally insult the President of India, and their Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, after the Mumbai terrorist attacks - see, for example The IndependentMiliband's trip to India 'a disaster', after Kashmir gaffe

The relations diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation have fallen back to Cold War era levels, for which Miliband must take some of the blame personally.

His recent fawning on President Barack Obama at the United Nations Security Council session was also embarrassing to watch.

Just because he grins and smirks a lot, does not make him personally charming, and he is an utter public relations disaster, as shown by his posing for photographs holding a banana., for no good reason except self promotion.

MELANIE PHILLIPS: Arrogant, ignorant and out of his depth, is Banana Boy Miliband our worst Foreign Secretary ever

How can this qualify him to represent the European Union in talks or negotiations with major powers like Russia or India ?

None of this makes him in any way suitable for the "European Union Foreign Minister" role.

The European Union faces many big problems in the future, but Tony Blair and David Miliband are is part of those problems, not an answer to them.

What can you do to Stop David Miliband ?

1) Lobby your elected politicians

Write to your Members of Parliament and Members of the European Parliament, via the
http://www.writetothem.com/, expressing your opposition to the idea of the appointment of David Miliband as European Union Foreign Minister.

2) Display some web buttons on your blog etc..

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The anonymous media briefings and spin (e.g. in The Times) have started up again, that somehow, after the Irish referendum vote on the Lisbon Treaty, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair, is somehow set to be appointed as the unelected President of the European Council when the Treaty is ratified.

How likely that Tony Blair will give up his lucrative money making speaking tours and his supposedly high profile international diplomatic role as a Middle East peace envoy ? He benefits financially and prestige wise, with his Office of Tony Blair in the 18th Century John Adams house, number 9 Grosvenor Square, London

This is paid for , to the tune of more than half a million pounds a year for the office rent alone, by the Quartet on the MIddle East i.e. the United States of America, the Russian Federation, the United Nations and the European Union, for some vague, unattainable Peace Envoy role in the Middle East. It is also a prestigious office, near the US Embassy etc. useful for his lucrative speaking tours, investment bank directorships and for his Sports Foundation and Faith Foundation.

None of these activities are compatible with a "President of Europe" role - but desperate, grasping politicians may choose to overlook this.

The European Union faces many big problems in the future, but Tony Blair is part of those problems, not an answer to them.

What can you do to Stop Tony Blair ?

1) Lobby your elected politicians

Write to your Members of Parliament and Members of the European Parliament, via the
http://www.writetothem.com/, expressing your opposition to the idea of a political comeback for Tony Blair as the unelected President of the European Council.

2) Display some web buttons on your blog etc..

Feel free to use these smaller logos on your own blog pages etc.

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3) Stop Blair petition

We are not alone in opposing the very idea of Tony Blair being inflicted on UK and European citizens, in a position of power and influence, again, without any democratic mandate whatsoever.

There is a European Union wide petition website, currently with over 34,000 signatures, opposed to such an insulting nomination

Stop Blair! - http://www.stopblair.eu/

which links to the online petition at

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stopblair/sign.html

The Times has the worrying report that:

From The Times
October 2, 2009

'President' Blair waits on voters of Ireland

Philip Webster, David Charter, Roger Boyes and Charles Bremner

Tony Blair is in line to be proclaimed Europe's first president within weeks if the Irish vote "yes" in today's referendum.

Senior British sources have told The Times that President Sarkozy has decided that Mr Blair is the best candidate and that Angela Merkel has softened her opposition.

"Senior British sources" - who exactly ?

The former Prime Minister could be ushered into the European Union's top post at a summit on October 29.

Ms Merkel, the German Chancellor, was opposed to Mr Blair because she believed that the post should go to a country that had adopted the euro but British sources said that she may now be "biddable" if Germany and France get plum posts in the new European Commission.

German sources insisted that it was far from clear that Ms Merkel had changed her mind and there were suggestions in Paris that Mr Sarkozy was happy to be seen to be backing Mr Blair because he knew that Ms Merkel would scupper the appointment.

"German sources" - who exactly ?

Mr Blair, whose claims are being advanced by ministers in London, will not enter the race unless he is certain of winning. He is wary of giving up his many other commitments, spanning business, the Middle East, climate change and his Faith Foundation.

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Which "ministers in London" exactly ?

Tony Blair and his Labour party cronies cannot be trusted to defend our human rights and liberties - they literally practice Orwellian doublethink and newspeak , and are utterly ignorant of high technology and incompetent with basic economics.

He must not be allowed to become the unelected "President of Europe", something which which is felt strongly both by supporters and opponents of the European Union !.

There is a petition, with over 34,000 signatures opposing the idea of Tony Blair becoming the unelected "President of the European Union".

See

http://www.stopblair.eu/

which leads to

Petition

We, European citizens of all origins and of all political persuasions, wish to express our total opposition to the nomination of Tony Blair to the Presidency of the European Council

Any UK or EU politicians or bureaucrats who propose or support the insulting idea of "President" Blair, especially those who do not sincerely believe in it, but are just trying to score political points of their rivals, should also be punished by the electorate.