One of the Western Mail's better columnists has a disappointing piece in his column in yesterday's Wales On Sunday, although it does now seem that Tony Blair's bid for the new Presidency role in Europe is dead in the water.
The pro-Blair hype from all quarters of the media has been lazy and weak. Ordinary people are being expected to somehow support Mr. Blair's ascendancy simply because he is "British", is a "high-profile figure" and has international clout, presumably from his support for costly illegal wars. This consensus is at odds with what ordinary people think of Blair, and it's about time this consensus was challenged.
Other potential candidates for the role are from Luxembourg and the Netherlands. On this week's Question Time the journalist John Sergeant derided Luxembourg's Prime Minister, stating the "obvious" British point of view, that surely a politician from a tiny country can't be taken seriously?
As Elfyn Llwyd said on the same programme, Blair's destination should not be a Presidential role, it should be the courts. He should be tried for war crimes.
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Ah, these British nationalists. Still think they are running an empire or are a Great Power.
They can't run trains, though and they have Danish pilots to fly their helicopters in Afghanistan.
What a pathetic, deluded bunch That includes Llais y Sais.
David Miliband is now touted as the new Foreign Affairs High Representative and you can't have the President and the High Representative from the same country, so yes Blair is dead in the water. John Sergeant is talking rubbish, what did we know about Barroso and Solana, or to come to that what do we still know about them?
The National Newspaper of Wales sucking up to New Labour.
Who'd have thought it?
Yeh, Anon 09.43. Like when they couldn't give enough space to that popular, dynamic duo Eluned & Glenys. Sometimes, their pictures filled whole pages. Glenys even had her own expensive show, Labour Woman of the Year, which was dropped when she finally left us.
Now remind me, who was "news editor and features editor" at the time?
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