The unelected Labour peer Baroness Ashton has been selected as the EU's high representative of foreign affairs and security by the leaders of the EU's 27 member states at a meeting in Brussels.
Does anyone else feel that the way that a woman who has never been elected to a political position will now be one of the most powerful people in the EU is somewhat symbolic of the lack of democracy in the EU.
Let's look at Baroness Ashton's CV:
1977 to 1979 worked at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament before being elected as its national treasurer and then a vice-chair. So the vice chair of CND whose organisation undermined western security is now nominally responsible for the EU's "Security", maybe Marxism has won...
1983 worked for the Social Work Training Council.
1983 to 1989 Director of Business in the Community working with business to tackle inequality
1998-2001 chaired the Health Authority in Hertfordshire and became a Vice President of the National Council for One Parent Families
June 2001 made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Education and Skills
2002 appointed minister for Sure Start in the same department
September 2004 made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department for Constitutional Affairs
2006 sworn into the Privy Council
May 2007 became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the new Ministry of Justice
June 2007 Gordon Brown, appointed her to the Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council
3 October 2008 nominated as the UK's European Commissioner in the European Commission
November 2009, she became the first EU foreign minister
So the "noble lady" has managed to make it from working at CND to being High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security without being democratically elected to any public office.
Isn't modern Labour and EU democracy simply marvellous, absolutely no need for elections at all. The people have no say, just the requirement to pay taxes and obey the multitude of laws introduced by their lords and masters.
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There is a rage brewing, especially thinking of highly qualified family members that can't get a job and are told to piss off by the jobcentre.
She should be ashamed. She must be fearful of her exposure.
"So the "noble lady" has managed to make it from working at CND to being High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security without being democratically elected to any public office."
Well, the Baroness was voted "politician of the year" by the homosexual lobby group Stonewall in 2006. That's pretty good democratic credentials by EU standards.
IM: Have you learnt noting from the last 12 years? These people have no shame, they are always right and they can never be stopped just temporarily deflected.
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