Is Catherine Ashton completely mad?

I just can’t believe what I’m reading in the Telegraph – that an unelected EU official of unparalleled stupidity has presumed to commit the EU to one particular potential candidate in the presidential elections of a foreign nation. As an act of diplomatic crassness this can have no equal; has no one ever explained to Ashton that it’s never, never done to openly support one candidate or party in another country’s democratic process?

Dear God, the women must be off her head – what does she imagine she’s doing? Is she deliberately trying to undo all the hard work others have put into stressing that the West must give room to an inclusive solution in Ukraine, one that takes Russian interests into consideration?

Tymoshenko is a woman of immense wealth with no cogent explanation of how it was lawfully acquired – she is no different from the others of the Ukranian oligarchy who through fraud, corruption and political manipulation have amassed huge fortunes at the expense of the Ukranian people. She has declined to put her hat in the ring for the PM’s job but hasn’t ruled herself out for the Presidential top spot, even though the old 2004 constitution denies the President many of the powers wielded by Yanokovych.

There is no great groundswell of enthusiasm in Ukraine for Tymoshenko’s candidacy; many want rid of her and her entire corrupt class. Yet it seems Ashton, a crass amateur playing at international diplomacy, is to commit the EU behind her. Unbelievable. Why that pig-headedly stupid undemocratic unelected failure of an EU placeman can’t leave things to the experienced foreign ministries of old European states with centuries of experience at such matters is inexplicable.