Christine Lagarde, as International Monetary Fund chief, was convicted of criminal negligence over her role in a controversial €400m (£355m) ‘compensation’ payment to a French businessman who legally and of his own free will sold his shares in an enterprise to a bank, saw the bank sell them onward for a profit and then asked for more money to be awarded to him (why?). She was not imprisoned after being convicted of this crime because it would have insulted her international standing.

There is no democratic appointment process to the EU Presidency, Commission (law-making government) or finance roles. This is normal for tyrannies like the EU. There is not even a slightly more fair proportionate appointment system based on parties elected to the lower parliament chamber. If there were, we wouldn’t have the situation that all unelected Presidency and unelected European Commission appointments this year went to pro-federalist people even though a significant fraction of the Parliament are anti-federalist. A proportionate appointment system would put a Brexit Party member (the largest party in the EU Parliament) in at least one Commission role and that office would be closed down or laws revoked, so clearly the institutional appointments system has to be rigged to stop challenges to unelected government happening.

Christine Lagarde might prove a good appointment to the role if she makes serious mistakes and hastens the collapse of the institution of the European Union. Uncompetitiveness would be influential in moving toward this end. The closure of the institution would create 28 new democracies and give over 500,000,000 people representation in their senior government for the first time since 1993, as imposed rule without consent is left behind.