Neither Bliar nor Millipede

[Snoopy]

So Gordon has let Tony sink and we have a Euro Pres from little Luxembourg Belgium, meanwhile some labour life peer, of whom little has ever been heard, has landed the job i/c Euro foreign affairs after only a year as a Euro commissioner. The whole thing stinks and the sooner we pull out the better.

[Miss Demeanour]

I confess now to not understanding this farce at all ...what on earth is the point of it all ????

[Snoopy]

Jobs for the boys would seem to sum it up.

[Barman]

I agree - the only way is out... Vote UKIP!

[Uncle Mort]

Jobs for the boys would seem to sum it up.

I was going to say Baroness Ashton of Upholland is a woman but...

[Barman]

Jobs for the boys would seem to sum it up.

I was going to say Baroness Ashton of Upholland is a woman but...

Did you hear her on the wireless this morning...? She has an ego the size of a very large thing... 

[Snoopy]

She has never held an elected public office and needs never to face the electorate.
She has 1 year's experience in holding a job as a European Commissioner.
Her total political experience is:
    * President of the Council, Privy Council Office (28 Jun 2007 to 6 Oct 2008)
    * Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice (9 May 2007 to 28 Jun 2007)
    * Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs (10 May 2006 to 9 May 2007)
    * Parliamentary Under-Secretary (also Department for Constitutional Affairs), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (8 May 2006 to 10 May 2006)
    * Parliamentary Under-Secretary (also Department for Constitutional Affairs), Department for Constitutional Affairs (8 May 2006 to 10 May 2006)
    * Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs (10 Sep 2004 to 8 May 2006)
    * Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare), Department for Work and Pensions (1 Jul 2002 to 10 Sep 2004)
    * Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare), Department for Education and Skills (11 Jun 2001 to 10 Sep 2004)

Prior to her "elevation to the Lords" she has never held a proper job, preferring a career serving on various QUANGOES and other NGOs

She studied a broad degree in economics at Bedford College, University of London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London), graduating with a BSc in sociology in 1977. Between 1977 and 1979 she worked at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and was later elected as its national treasurer and subsequently as one of its vice-chairs. As of 1983 she worked for the Social Work Training Council.

From 1983 to 1989 she was Director of Business in the Community working with business to tackle inequality, and established the Employers’ Forum on Disability, Opportunity Now, and the Windsor Fellowship.

She chaired the Health Authority in Hertfordshire from 1998 to 2001, and her children's school governing body, and became a Vice President of the National Council for One Parent Families. She briefly advised the producers of several U.S. television shows, most notably Boston Legal on sensitive storylines.

She was made a life peer as Baroness Ashton of Upholland in 1999.

When you are reduced to hi-lighting in your CV that you served as a parent governor at your children's school you really are scraping the barrel.

A nulabour gravy train rider through and through.

[Pastis]

She seems eminently qualified to be an EEC official 

There is the other thing, namely our Foreign Secretary's astute reading of the European situation and backing a Beijing "traffic stopper" for the Presidential office