The Chosen One Chosen By The Few
The one fact you have to remember about Baroness Catherine Ashton, the first EU foreign affairs chief, has never been elected by the public into anything. For someone who will represent several thousand million people who live in democratic countries that’s a bit hard to accept. Just how does someone who has never had to fight for the support of the public managed to get to such a lofty position.
I don’t know if she is the right person for the job, I know very little about her other than she has worked he way up the public service and political ladders with apparent ease. Her appointment is a good example of the problems with decisions based on consensus, you tend to get the one everyone is willing to accept not the one who would come top of the voting.
At least the the new President of the European Council, Belgian PM Herman van Rompuy, has been through the electoral mill. He is a big federalist who will probably turn his focus inward to concentrate on increasing the EU’s influence and control over the member states, which is a strange situation when some countries, like Scotland and Wales are pushing for more independence.
