Pro-Europeans no longer wanted in Cameron's Conservative Party, but neo-Nazis welcome (Wantage and Didcot Liberal Democrats)

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Pro-Europeans no longer wanted in Cameron's Conservative Party, but neo-Nazis welcome

October 5, 2009 12:32 PM

Edward McMillan-Scott MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament

Edward McMillan-Scott, vice-president of the European Parliament, was re-elected as a Conservative in June of this year, but has since been expelled from the Conservative Party after 25 years service as an MEP, including a stint as Leader. His crime was to stand for election as vice-president against Michal Kaminski, once a member of Poland's neo-Nazi National Revival Party, now a member of the same group in the parliament as Cameron's Conservative MEPs. On his website, Mr McMillan-Scott states :"Michal Kaminski has had anti-Semitic, homophobic and racist links and it is tragic that the Conservative Party has descended to defending him."

Writing in Saturday's The Independent, Mr McMillan-Scott says: "By leaving the mainstream and joining the extreme, the Conservatives have moved from being at the heart of Europe's centre right to its wilder fringes. In my view, Cameron was badly advised by Europhobes like Daniel Hannan MEP (a friend of Kaminski's, to my knowledge, for several years), who in turn was used by the Pole to make his own rather repellent party respectable. The negotiations were conducted, understandably, in secret. One consequence is that the victorious German Chancellor Angela Merkel is now withdrawing links with the Tory Party."

Mr McMillan-Scott concludes his article: "As prime minister, Cameron will discover the advantage of having friends and allies across Europe. To achieve his agenda on EU reform, an open Europe and climate change, Britain cannot afford to be isolated. I am a Conservative internationalist and I want Britain to lead in Europe, not leave it. In that, I have many friends in the Conservative Party too."

The Guardian on Saturday published a measured analysis by its foreign affairs editor Peter Beaumont of the political affiliations of Latvia's For Fatherland and Freedom Party, which commemorates the Latvian SS Legion annually, and which is also grouped with Cameron's Conservatives in the European Parliament.

Read this article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/03/latvia-far-right-nazi-links

Michal Kaminski MEP (of the Polish Law and Justice Party) and Roberts Zile MEP (of the Latvian For Fatherland and Freedom Party) are due to speak at a Conservative conference fringe meeting in Manchester tomorrow.