Yet after only 100 days in the job as the EU's top diplomat, the consensus on 53-year-old Cathy Ashton is that she is also one of the worst politicians on the international stage. There have been so many gaffes in such a short space of time that there are now serious questions over whether she can survive to the end of the year - let alone until 2014, when her lucrative contract is due to expire.The woman has been picked from obscurity to a job she is not suited for with a salary of £328,000 when she would be better suited to running a parish council. She decided last week instead of going to a meeting of EU Defence Ministers with NATO officials to go to the inauguration of the pro-Russian, Ukrainian Prime Minister. A throwback from her days in the CND?
The woman is an embarrassment to Britain and the sooner she is throw to the wolves and gets her £464,000 payoff and £64,000 pension the better and Brown should pay it personally for foisting this idiot on the EU.
