If a real politician treats a natural disaster as a photo-op, then we despise him or her as a shallow, tasteless parasite, and add it to the charge-sheet for the next election. This process of cause and effect is a good thing.

The EU is represented by a bureaucrat who has never even stood for election, and the idea that she has the rank or status of an elected leader is both criminal and bizarre. Her correct judgement about visiting Haiti, (and most elected leaders have been similarly restrained), scarcely affects this fact.

A link to the French criticism of the ‘Baroness’ would be useful.