UKIP joins with holocaust deniers too extreme for Le Pen

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Following on from the collapse of their already dubious group in the EU parliament; UKIP have decided that they weren't sitting with bad enough people and joined with the Polish Congress of the New Right. A group so far right that even Marie Le Pen's Front National consider them beyond the pale.

Among other delights their leader is a holocaust denier, believes women shouldn't have the vote and said "four million [N-word]s" lost their job as a result of the minimum wage which he wants "destroyed".

UKIP know all this. This isn't a stray voice within their party this is a political party they want to ally with.
 
Can't afford to lose £1m a year in funding so they'd probably do a deal with the devil to secure it.
 
Cosimo said:
Can't afford to lose £1m a year in funding so they'd probably do a deal with the devil to secure it.
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Pretty much this. The way the EU is set up means that political parties have to form and join "groups" with parties from other countries. I'm sure there are plenty of groups who would be willing to have UKIP but all of these groups ostensibly are trying to work towards building a better Europe, which runs contrary to UKIP's raison d'etre. IIRC the Conservatives had to join a group that would be considered too right-wing for the UK because they fell out with the main centre-right group in Brussells.
 
scorza said:
IIRC the Conservatives had to join a group that would be considered too right-wing for the UK because they fell out with the main centre-right group in Brussells.
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They didn't fall out. Cameron chose to leave and start his own group as a sop to the europhobes in his party in an act that really epitomises his inability to carry out functional diplomacy in the EU and really annoyed his MEPs. In that single stroke he did more to undermine his aims and minimise his influence in Europe than anything else he's done since.
 
Not too surprising - they need the dosh if they want to achieve the dream of getting more power. UKIP are a fringe joke party in danger of actually becomming relevant - a real pity.
 
AtticusFinch said:
Not too surprising - they need the dosh if they want to achieve the dream of getting more power. UKIP are a fringe joke party in danger of actually becomming relevant - a real pity.
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A bit like the Liberal party then... but with more potential :)
 
^ True with the difference being UKIP as a minority party are more to the right then the Lib Dem's as the left wing equivalent are to the left IMO.
 
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