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Baroness Ashton will be paid £400,000 by the EU to do nothing
2013-04-06
Probably cheaper for society than paying her to actual do things...
She doesn't do anything now, she just meanders around and babbles a lot...
Baroness Ashton will be entitled to £400,000 at the taxpayer's expense over three years for doing nothing after finishing her five year term as the European Union's foreign minister at the end of 2014.
From her Wiki
On the one hand, critics say she is likely to be out of her depth, never having been elected to any office. For example, on her appointment, the associate editor of The Spectator, and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Rod Liddle, wrote: "Never elected by anyone, anywhere, totally unqualified for almost every job she has done, she has risen to her current position presumably through a combination of down-the-line Stalinist political correctness and the fact that she has the charisma of a caravan site on the Isle of Sheppey."[31] According to The Guardian, an anonymous Whitehall source remarked: "Cathy just got lucky...The appointment of her and Herman Van Rompuy [as European Council president] was a complete disgrace. They are no more than garden gnomes
Posted by:tipper

#7  Thanks BP that makes more sense.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-04-06 16:08  

#6  ...I'd bet there are city and county jobs in California which pay more than that just in retirement.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-04-06 12:02  

#5  I'll bet there are city and county jobs in California that pay more...
Posted by: Steve White   2013-04-06 11:06  

#4  Shipman

No that's not what he means. Caravan sites are for people who go on holiday in the UK with our "wonderful" whetherweather.
The Isle of Sheppey is known for it's lack of bridges and prisons.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-04-06 10:00  

#3  Paying EUSSR commissars to do nothing would be an improvement.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-04-06 09:58  

#2  "she has the charisma of a caravan site"

Thru me until I figured out he meant trailer trash.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-04-06 09:01  

#1  ...well tough luck for the Baroness. All the similar paying jobs [unqualified, unelected, PC rewards] have closed in Detroit. Things are getting hard all around. Maybe she can get a chair position in SEIU. That'll at least match her skill criteria and get her invites to the White House.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-04-06 08:53  

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