USSR IN THE EUSSR
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 10:00AM 
I see that Baroness Ashton past came back to haunt her yesterday when the European Union’s new foreign affairs chief was forced to deny taking funds from the Soviet Union during her days as treasurer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Lady Ashton, a surprise choice for her post, was challenged to deny that she had contact with Russian sources while she was in charge of its accounts at the height of the Cold War. The Times has learnt that concerns about her CND involvement are felt across countries from the former Iron Curtain now in the EU and that MEPs plan to question her about it when she appears before them for the hearing to confirm her in her post.
My my, a former USSR lover put in a high position in the EUSSR, who would have thought it?
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This crossed my mind last week, I just couldn't find any references to it online.
Ashton was the Treasurer of CND when it was a communist-dominated group, had contacts with Moscow and took money from Moscow.
I heard a snippet from an Irish radio station which was interviewing Simon Darby, the BNP's deputy leader, and Roy Greenslade, formerly of the Daily Mirror. Simon Darby stated that Peter Mandleson had a marxist past (and present, I'd say) and Greenslade scoffed at this. But it is a fact that Mandleson was a student Trot and a full-marxist so why are these people trying to cover up their dodgy pasts? is it because we can deduce from this why they betray their country as they do?
Even if this could be proved and she admitted to it, I don't think it would lead to her resignation, such is the uber-arrogance of NULabour in its dying days.
Allan@Aberdeen -
Mandelson was in the Communist Party before jumping ship to the The Other Communist Party.