Barroso, visto lá fora

However, he failed to communicate with the people in his brief
tenure of office, making him arguably the worst Prime Minister in
recent political history, due to the fact that in two years, the
unemployment rate doubled and unemployed people had to wait
up to seven months for their state payments. He and his team,
seen as inhumane and uncaring by the majority of the Portuguese,
were extremely unpopular, a feeling reflected in the recent
European Parliament elections, in which the government coalition
was crushed by the Socialists.


As usual, Barroso acts as a protagonist and not as a man of
integrity, accepting the European Commission as the third or
fourth choice, just because there was nobody else. As a young
man, he abandoned the left because he saw a chance with the
right, allied himself to the man he thought would bring him
the best chance of public office in his party, allied himself
to the man(Portas, PP)who had attacked his party so vigorously
in opposition in the 1990s(as Director of a national newspaper)
criticized Antonio Guterres for abandoning the government
half-way through his programme and then did exactly the same
because he saw how unpopular he was.


It is a question of time before Jose Barroso commits an enormous
gaffe in Europe, making as much a spectacle of himself (for the
wrong reasons) abroad as he has done at home for the last two
years, having arrived at his level of incompetence under Peter"s
Principle.


Weak, uncharismatic, with zero communication skills, Jose
Barroso would be better and happier working as a grey Eurocrat
behind the scenes in the External Affairs area.


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