TONY BLAIR AS PRESIDENT OF THE EU IS ABHORRENT

Despite widespread public dissent across the continent, the EU’s bureaucratic elite is still hell-bent on building a
superstate.

A war cry of democrats down the ages has been: no taxation without representation. And the place for our representative democracy remains, for all its faults, the House of Commons.

As David Cameron argued yesterday, the time has come for Brussels to give up its profoundly undemocratic bid to create a country called Europe and to accept that the EU can only work as a loose grouping of nation states.

The very idea of Tony Blair swanking around the world as the EU’s president, making binding commitments on behalf
of the people of 27 nations, none of whom has elected him, is abhorrent.

So is the thought that EU Commission boss Jose Manuel Barroso is already conniving at the next act of nation-building before the hated Lisbon Treaty has even been finally imposed.

The case for Britain being given the referendum it was promised on Lisbon remains unanswerable. The case for a referendum on whether to get out of  the EU altogether grows stronger by the day.