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#0355* – Nikki SINCLAIRE Increasingly Under Attack by UKIP MORE PRESS!

Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 13/03/2011

#0355* – Nikki SINCLAIRE Increasingly Under Attack by UKIP MORE PRESS!
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Clean EUkip up NOW make UKIP electable! 
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The corruption of EUkip’s leadership, 
their anti UKIP claque in POWER & the NEC 
is what gives the remaining 10% a bad name!
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Nikki SINCLAIRE Increasingly Under Attack by UKIP MORE PRESS!
In about 1998 UKIP Leadership attacked Nikki SINCLAIRE But She Won, with UKIP having to sue for peace and pay both compensation and expenses!
Her belief in The Cause is unimpeachable & so she returned putting UKIP Leadership to shame AGAIN!

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Hi,
yet more exposure of the corruption of MEPs and the EU by Nikki Sinclaire – this time with Spanish MEPs squirming to justify their dishonesty!

euroeséptica Nikki Sinclaire, “whose sole purpose is to devalue the prestige of European policy in general and the European Parliament in particular.”

Good to see The EU are getting the message that UKIP MEPs were elected to publicise even if UKIP threw Nikki out because she refused to collude in supporting racism and anti Judaism in The EFD!

Every little helps to build the EUroSceptic case for Britain leaving The EU and to date the only foreign trip has been as part of a peace keeping mission to Tunisia – it is because of being free of the vile EFD that Sinclaire is being taken seriously as she is no longer involved in The EFD corruption, self enrichment, anti Judaism and violent anti homosexuality and racism!

I’m losing track of the number of articles in the British press, helped by Professional PR and a sound political insight – a huge amount of hard work! All this foreign media ‘pick up’ is a huge help as British journalists do check out the foreign press.

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Gardiazabal niega que las dietas de la Eurocámara sean ´un robo´ Gardiazabal denies that the diets of the EP are ‘a steal’

El diario británico ‘News of the World‘ le acusaba de cobrar las asignaciones sin asistir al parlamento The British newspaper News of the World ‘was accused of collecting the assignments without attending parliament

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EFE / STRASBOURG (FRANCE) Eider Gardiazabal Socialist MEP has defended Wednesday the allegations in the newspaper ‘News of the World’, according to which he claimed the EP diets inappropriately and explained to Efe that no is “robbery”, but something completely “legal.”

El diario sensacionalista y euroescéptico británico ha acusado a Gardiazabal y otros eurodiputados de cobrar las dietas correspondientes a la jornada del viernes, cuando en realidad ese día no trabajan. The British eurosceptic tabloid and has accused other MEPs Gardiazabal and accept payment for the day Friday, when that day actually working.

El medio recoge fotografías de los eurodiputados fichando en la sede del Parlamento y desplazándose al aeropuerto oa la estación de tren, poco después. The medium includes photographs of clocking MEPs in the Parliament building and moving to the airport or train station shortly after.

Según Gardiazabal, la mañana en la que la fotografiaron tenía una reunión en Bilbao, por lo que se marchó temprano para llegar a tiempo. According Gardiazabal the morning when the photograph was a meeting in Bilbao, so he left early to arrive on time.

La eurodiputada ha explicado a Efe que el reglamento de los eurodiputados permite cobrar las dietas del viernes si el trabajo de la jornada del jueves (cuando termina la semana en Bruselas) se prolonga hasta tarde. The MEP has told Efe that the regulation of MEPs can accept payment on Friday if the work of the day on Thursday (when you finish the week in Brussels) continues until late.

“Es algo totalmente generalizado”, ha afirmado la eurodiputada, quien ha señalado que numerosos eurodiputados de todo el espectro político le han hecho llegar su solidaridad por la noticia. “This is completely general,” said the MEP, who pointed out that many MEPs from across the political spectrum have extended its solidarity with the news.

“Es muy fácil difamar y luego cuesta mucho restablecer la verdad”, ha destacado Gardiazabal, que se ha quejado de los correos electrónicos insultantes que ha recibido, después de que el diario El Mundo se hiciera eco de la noticia publicada el 13 de febrero por ‘News of the World’. “It’s very easy to slander and then very difficult to establish the truth,” he stressed Gardiazabal, who has complained of abusive emails he has received, after the newspaper El Mundo echoed the news published on February 13 by News of the World ‘.

Gardiazabal ha destacado que el “topo” de la noticia es la eurodiputada conservadora británica y euroeséptica Nikki Sinclaire, “cuyo único objetivo es devaluar el prestigio de la política europea en general y de la Eurocámara en particular”. Gardiazabal stressed that the “mole” of the news is the British Conservative MEP and euroeséptica Nikki Sinclaire, “whose sole purpose is to devalue the prestige of European policy in general and the European Parliament in particular.”

“Quiero dejar claro que ni yo ni nadie ha robado”, ha afirmado la eurodiputada, quien asegura que esta información sólo sirve para “engordar el mensaje que los políticos no hacen nada y se enriquecen a costa de los ciudadanos”, cuando “la realidad es que nuestras jornadas en el Parlamento empiezan a las ocho de la mañana y terminan a las nueve de la noche habitualmente”. “I want to make clear that neither I nor anyone else has won,” said the MEP, who says that this information only serves to “fatten the message that politicians do nothing and get rich at the expense of citizens” when “reality is that our days in Parliament begins at eight o’clock and finish at nine p.m. usually. “

“En el PE estamos muy controlados, justificamos cada reunión a la que hemos asistido y cada billete de avión”, ha añadido. “In PE we are controlled, justify every meeting I have attended and each ticket,” he added.

Gardiazabal (Bilbao, 1975) participa en las comisiones parlamentarias de presupuestos, perspectivas financieras y medio ambiente. Gardiazabal (Bilbao, 1975) participates in the parliamentary committees of budgets, financial and environmental perspectives.

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Sorry it is a rubbish translation but if you go to the original it is a bit easier to follow!
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#0354* – IF UKIP MEPs Were This Active & Had Competent PR!

Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 13/03/2011

#0354* – IF UKIP MEPs Were This Active & Had Competent PR!
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Clean EUkip up NOW make UKIP electable! 
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The corruption of EUkip’s leadership, 
their anti UKIP claque in POWER & the NEC 
is what gives the remaining 10% a bad name!
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IF ONLY UKIP MEPs Were This Active & Had Competent PR!
But it is NOT that simple – One Needs Political Nouse, Hard Work & Professional PR!
The other help is a nose for the story and the Liberty To Act Competently, Free of the glory seeking of others and not aligned with racism, xenophobia, anti homosexuality and anti Judaism in The EFD!

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Hi,

Nikki Sinclaire particularly and Mike Nattrass to an extent are now being taken seriously as they are no longer just makeweights for Nigel Farage’s ego and bank account.

To date there is absolutely no doubt that Nigel Farage has been UKIP’s greatest asset – in fact it could be argued – ONLY asset, just look at the incredibly low caliber of those he has gathered around him to ensure that he is the colourfull cockrell on the top of a dung heap.

It is however clear that he is utterly without morality, bereft of probity, seen as untrustworthy and disloyal and prone to thinking and planning with the wrong part of his anatomy – Thus his insecurity becomes obvious and little more than showing off – the master of the cheeky chappie sound bite but respected by no one of any stature.

It is sad that in 18 years he has absolutely failed to build a team of speakers and competent political brains around him and has had endlessly relied on deliberate dishonesty and outright corruption to achieve his very personal goals and enrichment.

In the last couple of months Nikki Sinclaire has achieved more good publicity for EUroScepticism than EVERY UKIP MEP put together or looked at differently more good publicity in the press than Nigel Farage has in the last 10 years!

I freely concede that Nigel Farage can be good on TV – but he can also be a liar and a cheat which undermines any trust and makes him look like a cheap spiv.

Just think what UKIP could have achieved with a competent leader USING the skills of these two and bringing out any skills amongst the other MEPs who to date just look like weak, venal, dishonest, thieving fools.

Is the incredibly low caliber of UKIP MEPs and leadership team BECAUSE of Farage? Since he has been in situ for 18 years it is hard to concieve otherwise as he is a staggeringly insecure little man never leading but ever manipulating – rarely thanking others but always claiming the achievements (such that they are!) Never man enough to say sorry, never man enough to take the blame – but why should he, he is a performer and not a leader.

Just think what UKIP could have achieved with a leader and team builder – someone who could have professionalised the party, proclaimed a vision, structured a strategy and implemented sound tactics – Someone who could have built a structure and devised an Exit & Survival strategy for Britain whilst milking every frip of the skills from people in the party like Farage, Sinclaire and the like, who had something to offer.

You may recall I posted a clip of Sinclaire which I had watched during a debate in The EU pretend Parliament, on Positive Discrimination and Insurance – it has been picked up by the British Press and also now, together with the story on lightbulbs, the scam of signing in, the rip off of medical privilege they have ALL in a matter of a couple of weeks led to articles in the press around EUrope strengthening the British EUroSceptic position – hard core articles, not just soundbites on radio or TV.

Spain, Mallorca, Poland, Portugal, Latvia and all in a matter of a couple of weeks – it is sad that due to dishonesty from John Islon and the apparent intervention of Nigel Farage and his amateur PR company from The Tory Party the second double page spread in The News of The World with 7,000,000 readers ended up being spiked by UKIP’s efforts!

Never mind there is a lot more in the can!

Lo ‘políticamente correcto’ encarece el seguro de coche a las mujeres

Por: D. Rossell
el 13 marzo 2011 

Being ever so kind to you – Here is the translation from the Spanish!!!

Well as close as I could manage!

MALLORCA DIARIO ” Politics “
PARLIAMENT | CHAOS IN THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS (III)
The ‘politically correct’ expensive car insurance for women
By: D. Rossell
March 13 2011

Are you a woman under 30 years and has a car insurance ? Well, you should know that because of policies favorable to women allegedly carried out by the European Union, your insurance will cost you a minimum of 25 percent more in the future.

MEP denounces as Nikki Sinclaire, the common European position in favor of equality has led to the outlaw rule allowing insurance companies to charge prices based on accident statistics .

According to these studies, as women have fewer accidents than men, they paid less. But the European Union, in favor of abolishing all discrimination , has asked the courts to speak out against this differentiation. So now not be possible to charge differently for men and women. However, failure to outlaw age discrimination : if you have 26, pay insurance more expensive than if you had 27. But the EU is only interested in issues of discrimination on gender and not age.

Nikki Sinclaire says that “equality between the sexes is incredibly important , but this decision in practice discriminates against women, who were best insurance rates to be better drivers. Once again, the European Union shows their ignorance and lack of common sense just to get things done politically correct. This time the insurance industry, which 250 years ago applied the statistics to set insurance premiums, has been stuck in these disputes. What’s next? “Asks the MEP. 

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#0314* – UPDATE on Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP for UKIP & The Meeeja

Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 28/02/2011

#0314* – UPDATE on Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP for UKIP & The Meeeja!
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Clean EUkip up NOW make UKIP electable! 
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The corruption of EUkip’s leadership, 
their anti UKIP claque in POWER & the NEC 
is what gives the remaining 10% a bad name!
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UPDATE on THE STORY Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP for UKIP HAD EXPOSING THE EU PROFLIGACY IN The Sunday Times!!

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Just a quick update – I spoke with The Sunday Times today and established that the story I alluded to WAS in the first editions of The Sunday Times yesterday.
See CLICK HERE.frustratingly for the EUroSceptic movement and the Journalist + Nikki Sinclaire it was bumped out by a story planned for the coming week which Bojan Pancevski wrote of  – you may have seen my brief mention of this potential story recently!


The journalist who wrote up the story for Nikki Sinclaire hopes to get it back up on the web site at least, as having featured it as briefly as it was it is not a story that can be re-run so soon!

Never mind – there is a huge amount of corruption and profligacy to expose in The EU and lets face it UKIP Leadership have been too busy lining their nests, stuffing their staff and caressing their bank accounts to achieve much in the last 17 years!

Even now it seems the leadership are far too busy on Jollies to Finland for The EFD and enriching themselves whilst formulating ways to boost their take by jumping through hoops to become Pan EU Political Parties and complying with the EU – so busy in fact and so scared of loosing position at the troughs on the gravy train it seems they have hired in the skills they lack and are using a ‘CLOSE FRIEND’ of Farage’s from Athena-PR to ensure he wins internal elections, rigs results, cons the members and ignores data protection laws – whilst working to enlarge The EU and use his MEPs as errand boys (well geriatrics) to betray Britain with deals to increase Britain’s subsidiarity to The EU and strengthen The EU’s control through committees!

It enough to make a Press Officer have sex in the bath or at very least have a Heart Attack!!

Never mind – it looks as if once able to do the job a UKIP MEP is elected to do, rather than enrich the leadership and cosy up to the scum of The EU in a Racist, violent, anti Jewish, anti homosexual Pan EU Political Group like The EFD or join the Marxists in The Pan-European European Alliance for Freedom Party CLICK HERE

Individuals like Nikki Sinclaire can get a huge amount more publicity exposing The EU and more
speaking time than following the seemingly utterly corrupt UKIP Leadership.

Do let me know of any other UKIP MEP with the integrity not to be involved in such filth as The EFD giving them credibility and stature or doing the EU’s bidding for personal gain and we will be all too willing to publish their achievements on this blog which it seems some are so stupid as to think is anti UKIP and even so dishonest as to imply that we would derive ANY gain from telling lies and deliberately misleading people.

That may well be the way of the scum of PR and journalism as with foul mouthed language and exploiting the disabled to raise their profile but this blog has never yet been shown to deliberately distort material like Douglas Denny, Annabelle Fuller, Mike McGough, Gawain Towler, Derek Clark, Mark Croucher, Anthony Butcher, John Ison or the rest of the scum gathered around UKIP leadership. 

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#0185* – UKIP, Treason and Plot – The CATASTROPHY of APPOINTING Nigel FARAGE

Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 09/11/2010

#0185* – UKIP, Treason and Plot – The CATASTROPHY of APPOINTING Nigel FARAGE

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 05:  Nigel Farage, ...Image by Getty Images via @daylife

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Clean EUkip up NOW make UKIP electable! 
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The corruption of EUkip’s leadership, 
their anti UKIP claque in POWER & the NEC 
is what gives the remaining 10% a bad name! .
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Hi,
it is sad to see UKIP saddled with Nigel Farage yet again – he has proved catastrophic in ever sense of the word as a leader – as a performer he had so much to offer – the glib tongue of the City Barrow Boy, the courage of a City Gambler using other peoples’ money, the disregard for any aspect of morality or decency a man utterly without honour or any kind of values to which any but an oik would aspire.
He has created a party in his own image – inconsequential, irrelevant and self serving a vehicle for enrichment and an obstacle to the liberation of these United Kingdoms – a micro cosme of The EU itself with the same dishonesties, frauds, bullying, intimidation, racism and natural prejudices – a vile party supporting a vile concept.
All so sadly predictable when you overly reward nere do wells, chavs and gutter snipes.
UKIP, Treason and Plot
NEWS: Electing Nigel Farage as UKIP leader will be an even bigger mistake than it was last time
No doubt, in picking the Fifth of November as announcement day for yet another of its leadership elections, UKIP was once again displaying the arch “sense of humour” which it, though not the rest of us, seems unable to resist. But the Tory Right needs to understand that UKIP’s set to become an even unfunnier joke, and that this will weaken still further Euroscepticism in the UK.
It’s apt – fitting would not be the right word – that UKIP’s joker-in-chief, Nigel Farage, looks set to be declared its leader, resuming a post which, in another “only with UKIP” quirk, he meekly surrendered just a year ago, conveniently before the general election. It could also only be with UKIP that we could witness a leadership contest during which the frontrunner has proceeded with apparent inevitability to the prize and yet, at the same time, has suffered grievous, even fatal blows to his reputation. This concerns all of us who would like to see UKIP mature into at least a voice of conscience on the Right, a prospect which frankly receded in the course of Mr Farage’s last stint in the job. Sadly, however, neither “maturity” nor “conscience” serve as les mots juste when we contemplate Nigel Farage. The party’s prospects of serving as such, let alone anything more, is likely to recede still further, should the once-and-future leader return, given what we have seen and heard in recent weeks.
Mr Farage’s eagerness to treat everything as a sort of silly jape – think Boy’s Own meets The Beano, his many declarations, prior to his previous election and, tellingly, again now, that he intends to “professionalise” his party notwithstanding – has long been to UKIP’s detriment, beyond the eyes of those in the media, usually sharing no actual affinity with the party, who consider him “good value”. Now, though, light has now been shed on the bumptious ‘Nigel Farage’ figure the press likes to exploit for its own, hardly Eurosceptic, purposes. Dismally this Nigel is some distance removed from the Woosterish image he likes to cultivate.
Farage has always brushed aside as sour grapes from the disaffected claims, or revelations, about an unpleasant quality to his political leadership. Yet in this latest UKIP leadership campaign something unexpected has happened, with at least two major attacks upon Farage coming from senior UKIP figures previously regarded as essentially sympathetic to him. The first of them, Douglas Denny, is on the party’s NEC, from where he has been one of Farage’s principal apologists. No longer. Two weeks ago, he wrote on a public forum that Farage, ‘stabbed the party in the back by abrogating his responsibility to the party as Leader – by not taking the party into the general election.’ The next day, Mr Denny went even further – much further – by stating that Farage is ‘prone to temper tantrums, bullying tactics and condescension to try to belittle those who oppose him’ and that he ‘has repeatedly ignored the NEC or attempted to by-pass what he does not like’; ‘has shown he does not have a future vision for UKIP’ and ‘is much too tied-up with Brussels and his fiefdom over there’. For the icing on the cake, Denny revealed that he had made these criticisms out of the public gaze on the party’s members-only forum, but that, even though he was on the NEC, the comments had been censored there.
A week later, Farage took another barrage, this time from within that Brussels fiefdom. His second critic, Mike Nattrass, is not only a fellow UKIP MEP; he is also a former Deputy Leader of the party. In a widely circulated email, Mr Nattrass made observations about Farage that were even more damning than those of Mr Denny.

Increasingly, I am hearing the word “Spiv” used to describe him … [He’s a] control freak. He grabs all UKIP publicity to the detriment of any other UKIP spokesperson or MEP. He employs assistants with the MEP’s budgets without allowing those MEPs any say … he does not like truth or competition.

That was only the start of Nattrass’ devastating attack. Farage, he said, has ‘the morals of an alley cat’; he has been ‘caught out with both hands in the till’ after breaking a UKIP MEPs’ agreement not to employ spouses and ‘secretly’ paying his wife out of his budget; he ‘has derailed every leader since the very first’, bar one; ‘the whole Parliamentary Group in the EU is run for Nigel’s financial and public image’; he has contributed ‘next to nothing’ financially to the party (a very interesting allegation, given that Farage once famously explained away his brag that he had received over £2million in non-salary expenses and allowances by saying he had used it ‘to help promote UKIP’s message’). For good measure, Nattrass also took aim at Farage’s ‘close friend Godfrey Bloom MEP’, who, he claimed, does ‘all the hiring’ and ‘is said to be banned by four hotels for urinating in the corridors’. Such is the volume of ‘professionalization’.
Despite all this – or perhaps because of it – Nattrass concluded that he expected ‘Nigel will be elected leader as no one else is effectively allowed to stand without a spin campaign against them.’ As disturbing evidence of this, he added that he ‘found allegations of fraud were brought against me when I stood for Leadership. They melted away afterwards and had no foundation in truth, but they did the job intended’. Then, breathtakingly, Nattrass stated that, in contrast to the fake charges against himself, ‘Nigel has had a number of very real cases against him.’ Whatever the substance of these charges, in a normal, even, professional party, the would-be leader might have been expected to keep the lid of the petrol can, but as if to prove that, at the centre of any UKIP firestorm, one will find Nigel Farage, he promptly proved at least two of Nattrass’ accusations. First, in an astonishing act of petulance, by publicly falling out with fellow leadership candidate and MEP, David Campbell Bannerman, over the latter’s quite legitimate complaints about Farage’s planned appearance on Question Time in the middle of the campaign. Indeed, Mr Farage went as far as to roar at the BBC microphone helpfully put in front of him:

Mr Bannerman clearly thinks that his own ambition and his own ego matter more than the interests of the party. Frankly, I am appalled by that. I think that the act of getting hold of Question Time and saying it was all wrong and against party rules was just an act of envy.

If irony survived Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize, this charge, from this source, will undoubtedly have finished it off.
Could anything else go wrong for Mr Farage during this fortnight from hell? Amazingly, yes. The next leaked email came from the keyboard of one Sharon Bonici, who it transpires is a Maltese socialist with strong links to Farage (try to keep up: this is UKIP), whom he has entrusted with the setting up of his latest Brussels project, a lavishly taxpayer-funded pan-EU party. The email confirms this ambition of Farage, executed in the face of an overwhelmingly supported motion at the recent UKIP conference not to establish any such thing without the explicit approval of UKIP’s membership.
While Farage defying his members is standard-issue behaviour, what’s truly toxic for any British Eurosceptic who thinks that UKIP under Farage is worth even a protest vote is whom he has already signed up to this latest costly project. Top of the list is his alleged fixer, Godfrey Bloom. No surprise there perhaps, but go further down the list and one finds representatives from the Sweden Democrats, a party born out of the Swedish neo-nazi movement, and the extreme-right Flemish party, the Vlaams Belang, with proposed additions from Geert Wilders’ party in the Netherlands and Italy’s notorious far-right Lega Nord, with the latter of whom Farage has already closely embroiled UKIP in the group he leads (jointly with the Lega Nord itself) in the European Parliament. That group, the ludicrously styled Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD), has been the subject of much controversy within and outside UKIP over the past year, not just because of the membership of the Lega Nord, which has countless allegations of racism and paramilitary violence stacked up against it, but of various other far-right parties as well, including the Danish People’s Party, the Slovak National Party and Greece’s Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS). The leaders of the last-named claim 9/11 was a Jewish conspiracy and were properly condemned by the US State Department in 2005 as an ‘extreme right-wing party (which) supports virulent nationalism, anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia’. They’re also into their seventh year propping up Nigel Farage’s Brussels fiefdom. For understand this, Farage’s hegemony within UKIP stems directly from the powerbase afforded to him by this EP group. In other words, if you think that Nigel Farage is wrecking British Euroscepticism, it’s the EP’s money that lets him do so. Funny that.
Disgust over the EFD’s composition caused one UKIP MEP, Nikki Sinclaire, to leave it, closely followed by Mike Nattrass, but while Farage subsequently withdrew the UKIP whip from Sinclaire in Brussels and has tried to hound her out of the party altogether, he has thus far left Nattrass’ status intact, fearful of the latter’s clout within the party, not least in terms of his generous funding.
Despite all this controversy, and despite always rubbishing the suggestion that the EFD has far-right elements, Farage now seems not to care as he desperately tries to move into open electoral alliance at pan-EU level with partners whose extremist credentials are in no doubt at all. It will be interesting indeed to see who else now slithers out from under the EU’s rock garden to join Farage’s grand project. The Bonici email suggested that one of the pan-EU party’s first campaigns would be ‘to generate 1 million signatures to be able to instigate a pan wide European referendum [sic] on Turkey. The idea is to use the million signature clause according to the Lisbon Treaty.’ By a strange coincidence, three days before this email was sent, Austria’s far-right Freedom Party organised a two-day conference in Vienna, to organise an EU-wide referendum on Turkish EU entry, using the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty regarding a million signatures.
Attending the Freedom Party’s conference were parties remarkably similar to those on the Bonici email – far-right politicians from Vlaams Belang, the Sweden Democrats, the Lega Nord, the Slovak National Party and the Danish People’s Party, the latter represented by one of the EFD’s leading MEPs, the appropriately named Morten Messerschmidt, who, amongst many controversial moments in his delightful career, said in 2006

I think we need three sets of rules of immigration. One for Europeans, who will be regulated by EU-law. One for people from the rest of the Western World, including parts of East Asia, South America, etc. And then a third set of rules for the third world, who in general do not really offer anything we can benefit from, speaking of education, labour craft and knowledge.

This is the coalition which Nigel Farage has been carefully and quietly cultivating across the Channel for many years, whilst an indifferent British press have looked the other way. One school of thought holds that Farage has been indulged deliberately, to some extent, to thwart the BNP, but with friends like these, what exactly has been the point?
UKIP can perform a valuable service to Britain: they can keep the Tory Party, if not honest on Europe, then at least rather more honest than leaders like David Cameron and John Major would prefer to have it. With Nigel Farage leading them, whatever threat UKIP poses, it won’t be an honest one.

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