Could Chris Patten be the next EU President?

If it was up to the British he could. Thankfully the equally nasty French disagree, and it looks like it's not gonna happen.

I don't like the idea of an even more federal Europe either, but the thought of Chris Patten effectively (well, you know what I mean...) leading the EU gives me shivers. This is the man who just didn't see hundreds of millions of Euro's and dollars "misappropriated" by Arafat and his thugs.

No, it couldn't be much worse than that. Right?