Unfortunately we have another worrying blog on the EU, it seems its impossible to write anything on domestic issues without involving the EU due to 85% of all decisions and laws affecting the UK being made by the unelected corrupt and criminal establishment in Brussels

However, this news snippet may just rattle the useless and incompetent Gordon Brown into rethinking his position on a referendum if the stories of the turbulent relationship between Blair and Brown are correct.

It could be very embarrassing for Brown if his former master were to take this unelected position, what do you think?, The Popular Alliance always had a sneaky feeling that Blair would end up as President after selling the British people out and breaking a Labour manifesto pledge.

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair appeared to launch a bid to become president of the European Union in a speech on Saturday (12 January) in Paris by setting out his vision for the 27-nation bloc.

Addressing members of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right UMP party, Mr Blair, of the UK's centre-left Labour Party, said that member states could achieve more if they worked together.

"Europe is not a question of left or right, but a question of the future or the past, of strength or weakness," said Mr Blair, who works as a Middle East envoy since leaving Downing Street in June last year.

"Terrorism, security, immigration, organised crime, energy, the environment, science, biotechnology and higher education. In all these areas, and others, we are much stronger and able to deliver what our citizens expect from us as individual nations if we are part of a strong and united Europe," he said, according to Reuters.

Mr Blair attended the UMP conference at the invitation of Mr Sarkozy, who first mentioned him and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker as possible candidates for president of the European Council, representing member states at EU leader level, in October.

Negotiations on who should hold the new two-and-a-half-year post are expected to begin in the second half of this year, when France takes over the helm of the EU.

The European president post - expected to be a very high-profile job - is part of the new EU treaty, which still has to be ratified by the majority of member states.

At the Saturday meeting, Mr Sarkozy did not say outright that he thought Mr Blair should be appointed to the post, but praised him as one of "Europe's greats."

"When we appoint this president of the European Union, I want us to set the bar high and not aim for the lowest common denominator," said the French president.

But while Mr Blair appears to have the French government in his corner, he remains a highly controversial figure for others.

The leader of the opposition French socialists, Francois Hollande, said Mr Blair's support for the US-led invasion of Iraq makes him unsuitable for the post.

"[Blair] has evident qualities and had successes in his country but the position he took on the invasion of Iraq means he cannot be the next president of Europe," Mr Hollande told France's Radio J over the weekend.

Similarly, he is remembered in Brussels for having failed to deliver on Europe. He was greeted with open arms when he came to power in 1997, seen as a fresh face and pro-Europe after years of Conservative and generally more eurosceptic government.

But his years in office became mired in the Iraq affair, which proved highly divisive in Europe, and he did not move forward on major EU questions such as the country's membership of the euro, while keeping the country at arm's length from Europe on questions of foreign policy and justice and home affairs.