In the sentence below, add further clauses to give the statement some appearance of verisimilitude:

The recent appointment by Mr Barroso of a close ally to the post of EU representative to Washington was widely viewed as undermining Lady Ashton’s authority, and angered many foreign ministers who would have expected to be consulted …

One possible answer:

… in the same way David Milliband, as the UK’s foreign minister, might also have expected to have been consulted by the unelected usurper Ashton, just as the people of the UK had a right to have been directly consulted, by Mr. Milliband himself, on vital matters pertaining to the defence of the realm .

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