Blair and the Lisbon Treaty and the EU

This story was from a little while ago, but it's still knocking around. About the possibility of Tony Blair becoming EU president.

I don't know enough of what Blair's policies are likely to be if he becomes president. I am possibly making a large assumption in assuming that the candidates will have any real policies, since EU policies tend to end up fitting the lowest common denominator so nothing very progressive is ever achieved. Also we the little people are not going to get a say in who gets in anyway. I don't like Blair personally and I never will.

Maybe this is a big part of the problem the EU faces in the UK. I'm a declared pro-European and I remain unsure what the Lisbon Treaty involves other than the creation of the role of President. Bad on you British media! Give me some information so I can make an form an informed opinion!

I believe the EU is a very positive thing on the whole. It's still in the living memories of some people when the continent was at war with eachother; I believe that this will never happen again because the EU has made us a stronger unit. The concept that I could go and work anywhere in Europe I want without needing a visa is also awesome. Since I work with a lot of international students who have to jump through hoops to get a visa to go to a conference on mainland Europe, (nevermind working!), I'm guilty of taking a lot of the privileges that come with EU citizenship for granted.

I feel that a lot of the Euro-sceptics are deluded. We're only a small country and we're enjoying the glories of our past which gives us a disproportionately loud voice in the international community. This influence will become less and less as time goes on. We are no longer the British Empire and we need to move forward and become part of something else. Europe is the way forward, eventually the dinosaurs will realise this.