Prepare for Eurocracy

Dorothy Wilson

So what is your budget Cathy Ashton? Please do come clean on this figure. After all taxpayers have a right to know since it is their money you are spending.

Peter From Maidstone

This woman is facilitating the destruction of the sovereignty of Britain and is therefore a traitor. She should be treated as a traitor, referred to as a traitor, and exposed as a traitor.

Publius

As Taki says, kiss my Ashton.

Verity

As Peter from Maidstone says, she's a traitor. She has no legitimacy. She's ambulatory garbage and whatever spews out of her mouth or "brain" has no relevance.

I have a feeling they're not going to get away with this. (Not through the agency of David Cameron or the NuCon Pinkos, though. Cameron loves it and has his eye on putting his polished shoes snugly under the top table and travelling first class on the gravy train.)

Gary Williams

Is this chick on drugs?

salieri

I propose a simple experiment: every time the word "Europe", "European" or "EU" appears in this lady's vibrant and stimulating prose, mentally substitute the words "Single Parent Family". The result makes just as much sense and instils the same degree of pride and confidence: i.e. none whatever.

Yow Min Lye

The 'European External Action Service'. Gosh, I bet the very thought has President I'm-a-Dinner-Jacket quaking in his boots.

Number7

And her point is? - not recognised.

Who is she, what is she and who voted for her?

WHY DO WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS RUBBISH?

PS Expect a glowing report on this on Bruin's Broadcasting Company (AKA Liebore's Poll Tax)

Verity

Well, they do say that politics is show business for ugly people.

Maybe even for unelected ugly people.

Fearless Frank

The Noble baroness is a credit to the quangocracy that nurtured her when she comes out with this resounding phrase, to welcome... "new possibilities to make Europe better and more relevant for its citizens."
What do you mean, Lady Europe?
She adds: "The reputation of the EU is a good one, based on our strong values of freedom and democracy..."
Ah yes democracy... a marvelous thing, even though you've got so far without it.

Watt Tyler

"Employing a phalanx of EU diplomats when no standardised and encompassing EU foreign policy exists is Brechtian in its absurdity."

No, it is like having a currency as a step to establish a political unity.

This woman should be taken at face value. Our Embassies are about to be turned over to the EU.

And even if you pray your hardest, or keep repeating your wish that David Cameron will finally reveal his true colours on winning an election, and win the country back for you, well it won't happen. You will find that you have been lied to to win your vote. If Cast Iron even wanted you to have an effective parliament that represnted you, and was able to pass its own laws, he couldn't. Weeks ago this woman was already drawing up plans for an EU Diplomatic Service, and still we were looking down our collective noses of UKIP.

She isn't a traitor to the British ruling class, she is just parr for the course. And it is right to say "The Lisbon treaty has not inaugurated change; it has enshrined continuity."

So keep voting for continuity.

denis cooper

In fact she has no legitimacy in either of her official posts.

Her term as a Commissioner expired on October 31st, and she is occupying that post unlawfully.

And her position as the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has been created by a treaty which has no legitimacy in this country.

We know that, because William Hague explained it very clearly - the first time being in the Commons on November 12th 2007, I believe:

"... we would have a new treaty in force that lacked democratic legitimacy in this country and in our view gave the EU too much power over our national policies. That would not be acceptable to a Conservative Government and we would not let matters rest there; the right hon. Gentleman can be assured of that."

and repeated on many subsequent occasions.

But we now know that notwithstanding the lack of democratic legitimacy of this treaty, a Conservative Government would in fact let matters rest there and would accept the elevation of this woman to a position which should not exist, and I suspect would also agree to start the process of shutting down British embassies around the world, and of course disposing of the premises so that they could never be re-opened.

Chris lancashire

I read the headline to the article, read the author and passed on to the next page.

Boudicca

The EU's External Action Service, eh? So what's the EU's Internal Action Service for then? To keep the disenfranchised peasants under control?

What a load of garbage. Vote UKIP to get out of this expensive shambles.

Nicholas

Just what we need - another tier of government to bleed us and boss us.

Rebellion now.

Fearless Frank

Chris lancashire December 17th, 2009 7:42pm
I read the headline to the article, read the author and passed on to the next page.

So, nothing to say then, empty-headed Chris?

Austin Barry

I wouldn't worry too much about the EU's inert take on Iran. The US is fast-tracking the manufacture of bunker-busting bombs and building-up strategic oil reserves, while Israel is strangely silent apart from air-raid drills. Consider also the toming of the recent leak in relation to Iran's work on a nuclear bomb trigger device. Should be an interesting first quarter.

mac

Ode to Joy.
We are all now citizens of Greater Belgium.

Cuffleyburgers

I'm sorry but the baroness ashton is far too unattractive to be taken seriously as a female aristocrat.

Quite honestly I'd rather sleep with an actress...

Maggie

Baroness Ashton's first 'triumph' is in making sure we can no longer buy bananas from small Caribbean producers. We now have to buy them from wicked American conglomerates. The only people to gain from the arrangement are the American megolomaniacs. In no way were the interests or wishes of Europeans given priority. She's not just a traitor to the UK, she's also a traitor to the EU.

Peter

There is only one solution which will end the queue of posters complaining about all of this.

IT CANNOT BE CHANGED UNLESS WE WITHDRAW FROM THE EU.

And that's that. No amount of complaining and declaring Ashton a traitor will achieve anything. We were denied a referendum but notwithstanding that the government we elected signed the Treaty after a majority vote in our elected Parliament. We might not like it but that's the way it is.

So hands up who's for withdrawal?

Austin Barry

Although she is singularly ill-favoured, Baroness Ashton's looks should not really be a matter for CoffeeHouse comment. Although bovine they are relatively benign when compared with the PM's hideous face which increasingly epitomises the corruption and venality of our ruling elite.

Perhaps in Gordon's attic there is a portrait of the handsome young Ganymede who once created such a flutter in the hearts and trousers of the louche Provincetown set. Were he to stroll along the Cape Cod beaches now I suspect that even the implacable stone crabs would retreat in horror.

Verity

Peter is correct when he says the only way out of this quagmire is withdrawal from the EU. We'd be instantly richer, for a start.

But it's not going to happen under Lying Labour or the Lying Conservatives, both of which are signed up to the agenda. Of the two, I hate dave (I'm not going to capitalise his name from now on) the most because he is a traitor not only to Britain, but to the entire Conservative ethos and it is criminal that he, a traitor to the cause, is nominally leading the party.

I'm voting UKIP this time, and I believe millions more will do so, too. If the Tories want to be in with a chance for the next election, the have to dump cameron. ("Cameron" means shrimp, in Spanish, by the way.)

JohnAnt

"her objectives" - so this is about her, is it? I suppose as she doesn't represent us or anyone, she can have whatever objectives she likes.
'My first priority'...should be to find someone to advise on colour co-ordination, dress sense and self-presentation.
As for 'offering added value to what their countries do' - in management terms, 'added value' is about rationalising resources, and improving standards and performance for the same financial outlay. What Ashton means is the precise opposite - throwing out more taxpayers' money and duplicating resources.