UKIP Eastern Counties
Battling the Red Baroness
Tuesday, 9th March 2010
David Campbell Bannerman MEP
"The highlight of my time thus far as an MEP has to be my encounter with Baroness Ashton in December, following her selection as the EU's Foreign Affairs Minister," writes UKIP Deputy Leader and MEP for the Eastern Counties David Campbell Bannerman.
"I cross examined the Baroness about CND's (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, ed.) finances, which were unaudited at the time. I demanded to know whether she had ever accepted donations form the Soviet Union, from any other Communist country or from Soviet sympathetic organisations. There are allegations that the British Communist Party, who did admit to receiving funds from the KGB, helped fund the CND. The latter having some 40% of its income from sources that have never been identified."
"She didn't really have an answer and simply waffled with some apocryphal tales about collection buckets at CND events and there being no way to determine where such monies came from! I simply don't accept that such a large part of CND's budget was collected in such a haphazard manner."
"Baroness Ashton remains a strange selection for the post but the most troubling of all is the way both she and the new President of Europe, Herman Van Rompuy were selected. It was done at a long banquet, attended by leaders of the member states. No democratic process was involved."
"These people will have immense power but are well beyond any sort of control at the ballot box."
