Comments on: Baroness Ashton for High Rep – really?

By: Alfie

Alfie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:19:08 +0000

It’s an important responsibility. I honestly think that she will be decent. She seems competent and up to the task.

By: Fede

Fede — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:19:49 +0000

This is my point of view…quite different from yours
http://www.euroalter.com/2009/baroness-ashton-will-betray-victor-hugos-dream/

By: Carl Gardner

Carl Gardner — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:36:37 +0000

Her appointment depresses me. Not because I think there’s anything wrong with her – I don’t. I’m sure you’re right that she’s thoughtful and decent. I don’t doubt she can do this job.

But. There are lots of competent people in the world. Cathy Ashton has risen miraculously since 1997 through the patronage of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, plus now, international partisan and national wheeler-dealing. I don’t doubt for a moment that her personal qualities and competence have helped her get on, but none of her appointments have been through a procedure actually based on merit, and none have been by election either.

What message does it send, about Britain and about the EU, that this is the way to achieve such high office?

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