Former EuroCzar Manuel Barroso recently visited the UK and attacked the British Gorvernent for insisting on reform of the European Union and not having participated in the Euro. This was a marvellous piece of hypocrisy even for him. Barroso is a failed Portuguese Maoist who expressed his dislike for the democratic process and maintained his wild theories late in his life (until the high life as a Euorcrat tempered his hostility.)

Barroso was a student activist in the Salazar regime in Portugal (Estado Novo) and was active in student politics when the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) made a military coup which put them in power (the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974). In the swirl of leftist political movements arising from their dormancy to take power under the military in Portugal, Barroso was one of the leaders of the underground Maoist MRPP (Reorganising Movement of the Proletariat Party), later the Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers/Revolutionary Movement of the Portuguese Proletariat -PCTP/MRPP). He joined the Maosists in a battle for the Left with the Stalinists of the Portuguese Communist Party.They fought for control of the Portuguese labour and student movements and for government positions in the new political alignment which followed the decline in military control. leading to the formation of the Anibal Cavaco Silva Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD) government in 1985. By then the Maoists had been defeated for control of the left and Barroso had decided to abandon his radicalism to become a member of the right of centre PSD. In 1987 he was given a cabinet post as a gesture to the younger leftists who had joined the party. He took well to the 'good life' and prospered, eventually serving a short term as President before joining the fat cats of Brussels as President of the European Commission.

Here is a video of him while he was still a Maoist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wAHv3UnXvmM

It beggars belief that a man who rose to positions so far beyond his abilities to cope with them and who effortlessly made the move from Maoism to Eurocracy to have the temerity to intervene in the decisions of a sovereign country in managing its foreign affairs. A failed Maoist is not likely to be the source of wisdom on democracy and national responsibility.