Douglas Carswell
02 JUN 2014
Which Euro grandee will be our President?
It makes no difference how you voted – the European Commission always gets back in.
Last week the British people voted overwhelmingly for Eurosceptic parties.
Today in Brussels we are left with a 1/28th say over which Euro grandee gets to call themselves "President of Europe".
Will it be Jean-Claude Juncker, favourite of the Brussels insiders, for his fervent advocacy of a single European State?
Or perhaps it'll be former Belgian Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt. At least when he sneers at our country, he does so openly, as the video shows.
Perhaps, in the belief that he's just the straight sort of guy needed to soften up us Brits, the Eurosystem might decide to give the job to Tony Blair. "What influence we have", the Euro lobbyists will then shriek, "A Brit, at the top table!"
Given his record running this country, who better to teach the Europeans about massive, uncontrolled immigration? Who better to preside over EU wide bank reform, seeing how he handled the UK banking bubble?
President Blair might even be able to improve Europe's global competitiveness in the same way that he fixed ours. Last time Blair got the EU to agree to a reform programme intended to make Europe the most competitive part of the global economy by 2010, things didn't go quite the way he promised.
As a member of Better Off Out, I wish we could find a way for them to all take on the role.
Do we really want to be run by these sort of people? Surely we can do better than this. Are we really to have politicians doing politics without reference to the voters?
I don't think so. So let's vote to leave in 2017.
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