Had the repulsive war criminal Blair been chosen as the EU president, there would have been one bright spot – his creature, Lady Mandelson, could have slithered back to Brussels to serve his master, President Tony, meaning we in Britain would have been spared Lady Peter’s baleful presence. Now that Tony ’45 minutes’ Blair looks unlikely to become EU supremo, it seems we’ll be stuck with Lady Mandelson for the foreseeable future.