Catherine Ashton has absolutely zero experience, no qualifications in foreign affairs and has a record of extremist leftist and anti-white political activism. She is therefore the ideal person for the EU to appoint as its Foreign Affairs Minister to represent you all over the world.

Even though she has no qualifications or experience in foreign affairs, Ms Ashton does have a wealth of experience in assorted extremist left-wing crank causes, and is an ardent proponent of “Black and Minority Ethnic” affirmative action at the expense of the white indigenous population.

Ms Ashton holds a degree in sociology and spent the first two years of her “working” life as an administrator at the anarchic “Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.”

She then drifted on to assorted left-wing, anti-white causes, the most prominent of which is the so-called “Windsor Fellowship” organisation. According to its own website, the Windsor Fellowship is focussed on the “barriers that Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) undergraduates face in the employment market and the challenges employers face attracting good quality BME graduates.”

In other words, this is a publicly funded body which promotes nonwhites over the heads of whites in business opportunities, using the fake “racism” allegation as an excuse.

As a reward for her anti-white activities, Ms Ashton was given a peerage in 1999 by the Labour Party and made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Education and Skills. By 2004 she had moved on to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department for Constitutional Affairs, but quickly bored with being responsible for the National Archives and the Public Guardianship Office. She was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice in May 2007 — holding all these senior offices without ever having stood for election.

Ms Ashton replaced fellow unelected “peer” Lord Mandelson last year as EU Trade Commissioner, despite having absolutely no experience in trade matters at all, having “earned a living” her whole life off the back of handouts and subsidies from taxpayers through various NGOs.

Ms Ashton is also an enthusiastic supporter of the “Common Purpose” consultancy racket. This is a bunch of pro-EU and pro-diversity “advisors” who have made a fortune by persuading local and central government bodies to send civil servants on courses where they are “taught” the benefits of EU membership and multiculturalism — all at the taxpayers’ expense.

When Ms Ashton was briefly involved with the Hertfordshire NHS, she authorised the participation of dozens of key NHS staff in Common Purpose seminars, all paid for out of that NHS Trust’s bank account.

Purely coincidentally, of course, Ms Ashton’s husband, Peter Kellner, is paid a salary by the Common Purpose organisation to “teach” diversity and pro-EU viewpoints. Mr Kellner’s day job is president of the polling organisation YouGov.

So now, after a lifetime of scrounging off the taxpayer, Ms Ashton has hit the jackpot. Never having once stood for office, never having once worked in foreign affairs, and never having once actually worked a proper 9 to 5 job, Ms Ashton is now the EU’s first High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

She has been placed in charge of determining the EU’s position on major international issues such as Iran and the allegations of its (non-existent) “nuclear bomb,” the chaos which is Iraq, the ongoing Palestinian/Israeli conflict and Europe’s relations with Russia, China and America.

The lunatics have been put in charge of the asylum.