Tuesday, April 7, 2015

AFP: Blair enters election battle with EU warning - For what he has done to the UK and the West, Blair should be resting on a small metal cot in a big brick prison. --tma


Blair enters election battle with EU warning



London (AFP) - Tony Blair was to wade into the British general election campaign on Tuesday, with the former prime minister set to sound a warning about the dangers of leaving the EU.

Blair, who was in office from 1997 to 2007, is to claim Prime Minister David Cameron's planned referendum on European Union membership threatens the British economy.
Conservative centre-right leader Cameron, if he remains prime minister after the May 7 election, has pledged to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU and then hold an in-or-out referendum on the outcome by the end of 2017. ...