(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
More strong reaction to Nigel Farage’s decision to ally with a far-right party in the EU.
This time the Board of Deputies of British Jews – no bleeding-heart lefties by any means – have issued a statement accusing UKIP of embracing racists and extremists.
Here’s the Board of Deputies’ full statement:
Board of Deputies of British Jews Statement on UKIP and the EFDD
Board Vice President Jonathan Arkush said: “The Board is gravely concerned by reports that UKIP may sit in the same parliamentary grouping as a far-right Polish MEP in a bid save its funding. Robert Iwaszkiewicz belongs to an extremist party whose leader has a history of Holocaust denial, racist remarks and misogynistic comments. He belongs to the far-right Polish JKM, led by Janusz Korwin-Mikke who has reportedly called into question the right of women to have the vote.
“Furthermore, we entirely reject UKIP’s justification that ‘All groups in the European Parliament have very odd bedfellows (and) The rules to get speaking time and funding are set by the EP, not UKIP’. Extremists and racists should be roundly rejected, not embraced. Even France’s far right Front National rejected the JKM as being too extreme.
“For UKIP to choose such a figure as Robert Iwaszkiewicz as a bedfellow, apparently for money, is beyond belief. Nigel Farage now has some very serious questions to answer. He has placed in issue the credibility of UKIP.”
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Another angry man? 😦
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Reblogged this on [Modern Times].
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Tom – Just wondering… as you now seem to regard the Board of Deputies of British Jews as being a moral voice, will you also be citing their statements with regard to Gaza sometime soon?
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Not a surprise — unfortunately. But ‘upper-class Thatcherite twits’ will crawl into bed with ‘whoever’. The other week they were atempting to get ‘in-to-bed’ with the European Green-party group — that was a relationship that was not going to last very long.
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Reblogged this on My Little Underground and commented:
For years now the whole thing with UKIP is that they weren’t obviously bigots and racists. I mean they were to a numbe rof us but the general perception thanks to the media was they were ‘having a go at the system’ and were ‘something different’. Although most people have no intention of voting UKIP, that’s not just because they have some dubious types in their party, but because their policies are either just the mantra of ‘Europe and immigration’, or utterly non-existent. It was however difficult to define UKIP as a far-right party, albeit a right wing party with far right support.
Now the perception of UKIP as a bit Tory-Max has to go. They are now clearly a far-right party with even less morals and principles that Le Pen’s party in France who wouldn’t stand with Holocaust deniers to get EU funding as UKIP have done.
Note that point too: they’re standing with the far-right to take money from the EU even though they’re supposed to be morally against it, yet are quite happy taking our money.
So here we go, we can safely say from now on UKIP are far-right and they should now be treated akin to the BNP.
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piss flaps.
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Seriously Tom, think about your arguments first.
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Find it rather ironic that an organisation that supports Israel is criticising extremists…
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