Brown Backs Blair.

I'm confused. Just what the hell is going on here? Presumably there is a swarm of flying pigs over London, since Brown appears to be doing the unthinkable and is backing Blair:

Downing Street had previously denied reports it was canvassing for the ex-prime minister to get the job, to be created under the new Lisbon Treaty.

But the BBC now understands Mr Brown will put the case to other EU leaders in Brussels later this week.

First up, that's a spectacular u-turn. Actually, it is doing an about turn and then moving in completely the opposite direction. It is almost as if the default Downing Street response to anything is to turn around and deny it. Yet in this case, on further investigation, it turned out that this was something they were actually doing. Nice communication there, guys. Really singing from the same hymn sheet.

Secondly, what is the case for Blair? He used the EU as a political tool to embarrass and weaken the opposition in his own country, ducked every difficult decision about the EU for fear that it would weaken him before joining with the cowboy in the States on an expedition into Iraq that shat on the opinions of almost everyone else in the EU. Tony Blair treated the EU like a smack head might treat his grandmother - he rinsed them for all they were worth, then ignored them, and then fucked off when a better option hoved into view. Forgive me if this seems cynical, but that isn't a smashing CV for someone vying to be EU President now, is it?

Finally, why is Gordon - who hates Blair with a terrifying passion - suddenly fighting for him? Did the two of them make up, and decide to join forces to inflict more Nu Labour shite on an even broader canvass? I doubt that - Brown doesn't strike me as the forgiving type. No, I suspect that this the final, evil revenge of Gordon Brown. He realises we are going to dump him at the next election, so he is going to take his revenge whilst he still can. He's going to leave us as he found us - with that grinning, untrustworthy jackanapes Tony Blair leering over not just the UK, but actually the whole of the EU. Then Brown can return to Mordor or wherever the fuck he's from in Scotland and chuckle to himself in his enforced, early retirement about how he got his own back just before the end. Brown is using the EU Presidency as a scorched earth policy.

Still, with advocates like Brown and Berlusconi, we can be hopeful that President Blair will never, ever happen.