No thanks Tony, we don’t want you as president of Europe

Julien — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:39:05 +0100

Bristol, UK. Posted by 'Dr Dog' on flickr, 6 February 2006

When the idea of Tony Blair as president of the Council of Europe emerged, so did an online petition against the idea. The European Tribune blog launched the ‘Stop Blair' petition on Tuesday. Already signed by 3600 people, the whole blogosphere is talking about it. Here we publish commentary from Jérôme Guillet, one of the campaign's organisers, and the reaction of a British blogger specialised in European issues, for who Blair ‘would have been a good spokesman for the EU ten years ago'.

Thanks go to Carl Konigel, our Observer in Holland, who alerted us to the petition. See his blog.