NEWS FROM THE OTHER WORLD..

Interesting to see that the EU`s £420million a year foreign ministry has been condemned as wasteful and clueless in a damning report from `legal experts,` including Belgian law professor Greet Da Maere.   Baroness Cathy Ashton (she of parish council and NHS Trust fame) and her European External Action Service has been accused of `confusion, poor management, lacking even elementary knowledge of diplomacy and squandering money by duplicating functions.`

After five months of research into the organisation, the report has warned that morale is falling because of `lack of trust, internal quarrels, clashes with other European institutions and an opaque chain of command.`   In response, a spokesman for Baroness Cathy said, "The service has broken new ground and it is unrealistic to expect it to be perfect from the outset."

Now the `service` has been going since 2009 - four years ago - so it`s hardly at the outset stage and at £420million a year, so far the cost has amounted to almost £1.7billion.  Why, you could buy Arsenal Football Club for that money, but then you might just pick up another organisation full of `confusion, poor management, lacking elementary knowledge of diplomacy and squandering money.` 

Tough choice.