Jerome a Paris:

the fact that Ashton does not seem an objectionable pick per se. But it's still something of a bitter pill to have a Brit in one of these two jobs

Whenever I have spoken for the Stop Blair! campaign I was careful to stress that it was not an anti-British campaign but an anti-Blair campaign. Maybe I was wrong.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma