Beaming Blair's bid to land the plumb job of powerful EU president has been forced out into the open with his Euro pal, greedy Glenys Kinnock, letting the cat out of the bag, confirming government backing for his cunning plan. But should the EU pick a "grinning, money-hungry, beaming, Cliff Richard-loving, Berlusconi-adoring, guitar-playing twat" for president?
In the squalid world of power politics, all roads lead back to Blair who continues to cast a long disreputable shadow despite pretending to take a back seat while popping up all over the place to massage his ego and bank balance.
Now after months of speculation and denials it's out in the open. Blair has been named for the first time as the government's candidate for EU president, despite a small problem that officially there's no job going begging.
At a Strasbourg briefing, Brown's junketeering Euro minister Kinnock who's done her best to milk the EU gravy train dry, surprised many by publicly stating what everyone knew in private, that the Brown government was supporting Blair for what would be one of the most powerful posts on the planet.
The confirmation comes as sprightly 75 year-old playwright and broadcaster, Jonathan Miller, looks back in anger in an interview in The Times, having a go at Tony and Cherie:
"I have a deep disdain for them. I couldn't bear that grinning, money-hungry, beaming, Cliff Richard-loving, Berlusconi-adoring, guitar-playing twat ... it's that beaming Christianity and that frightful wife with a mouth on a zip-fastener right round to the back of her head. And both of them obsessed with being wealthy."
Blair's ambition to be top EU dog has been no secret. The Orange Party has long tracked the progress of the man who wants to be king. But always Mr Cool, Blair refused to come out in the open and have the guts to declare for himself, leaving it to one of his lackeys.
Everything hangs on the Irish who've been forced to hold yet another referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in October after it became clear the EU doesn't do 'No'. If Irish voters say 'yes', then Blair could be set to head an all-powerful expanded EU.
At home some believe with Blair's backing, beleaguered Brown's flagged leadership could recover. A double-edged sword but one which explains why Cameron has been so silent on the Blair candidacy.
Oborne writing in the Mail recently blew the gaff, suggesting a cynical deal has been struck: Cameron would do nothing that would damage Blair's EU chances, while Blair agreed not to speak out against Mr Ambition's plan to get into No 10.
But that puts Cameron at loggerheads with side-kick Hague who's made it quite clear Blair should be "let nowhere near the job".
Meanwhile the shabby deal between Brown and Mandelson to protect his boss Blair was exposed by John Kampfner, in the Spectator, blowing the gaffe on the Prince of Darkness who promised to prop up Brown in the fag-end days of his premiership.
Forced to support his arch-rival, a squalid deal was hatched to protect Blair and his bid for the EU presidency in return for a secret stitched up Iraq War inquiry, with a whitewash outcome well after president Blair had his feet under the EU table.
The founder of the discredited New Labour project could yet run into stiff opposition in Europe. Sarkozy and Merkel are blowing cold on the idea and many see Blair as a chancer just in it for himself. Inquiry revelations could still damage war-mongering Blair's plan.
But if the Irish succumb to threats and bribes and vote yes, Mandy would to be off like a shot to join his boss in Brussels while arranging for the ex-Supreme Leader to be out on his ears.
The shameful legacy of events leading to war has left many with blood on their hands, not least a disgraced two-faced ex-prime minister Blair and his "taste for war".
Many voters here and many in Europe look back in anger and disgust and regard Blair with profound contempt. As Miller puts it:
"And he got us into this disastrous war with Iraq because he had consulted with God. Like Bush. Well, anyone who claims to do something on the basis of a personal relationship to a non-existent deity..."
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