The Blair Dream Fades
So it looks as if the motorcade factor was not enough. Too few of the movers and shakers in Europe are willing to back the Blair canditature for the Presidency of the Council. Neither he nor his friends have understood a simple truth. Britain’s most glitzi Prime Minister since Pitt the Younger made a fatal blunder over Iraq and then tried to hide the truth. Like Ted Kennedy, whom he resembles in so many ways and for whom Chappaquiddick was an insurmountable barrier to high office, the memory of Iraq yawns as an impassable fissure on the road of any Blair motorcade now and for ever. We shall have to see whether Tony rises above it all and like Ted finds a role where he really can make a difference. He is supposed to be a Middle East peacemaker at the moment. Not much happening there.