Far from being a high profile figure who can 'stop traffic', the EU President needs to be a chairman to preside smoothly over the running of an already vast and complex union. Furthermore, such a high profile figure would cause confusion over the role of the Foreign Minister, another product of the Lisbon Treaty, whose job it is meant to be to negotiate with other world leaders.

The EU President also needs to chair the meetings of teh European Council something that Tony Blair is not very good at doing. He has often commented at how he finds these meetings incredibly tedious. If we are to have an EU president it should be someone who has more patience then Tony Blair.

It is not for an unelected President of the EU to decide Britain's role in the Union, but the British people who have increasingly voted in favour of more Eurosceptic parties in successive elections. Furthermore, Blair failed to implement his pro-European agenda when Prime Minister because of his decision to go to war with Iraq which subsequently destroyed his credibility with the very European leaders he is now hoping will appoint him as President.