For once, we rejoice in the small-mindedness of Europe's leaders. When they eventually come to select the luminary who will chair the European Council of presidents and prime ministers – and this may not happen until December – they would do us all a favour if they spurned Mr Blair. Instead, they should choose some harmless, plodding nonentity like Belgium's prime minister, Herman van Rompuy. The case against Mr Blair is twofold: as our prime minister, he broke his promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, which creates the very post he apparently aspires to hold. This was a denial of the nation's right to choose whether to cede more sovereignty to the European Union, and the most flagrant breach of faith committed by any British prime minister in recent memory.