The prospect of Nigel “Thirsty”
Farage and his fellow saloon bar propper-uppers at UKIP facing a £1 million
hole in their finances, following the
collapse last week of their group in the European Parliament (EP), saw the
Kippers’ minds focused as never before: they had to find an MEP – any MEP –
from a seventh EU member state to join, or lose all those bonus Euros.
Squeaky extremist finger up the bum time
Just how desperate the Farage fringe were to hold on to this
extra revenue source became clear at the weekend, as Martin Sonneborn of Die
Partei, Germany’s foremost satirist and an MEP whose primary purpose in being
in Brussels is to take the piss, revealed that UKIP had
approached him in an attempt to get someone from a seventh country on
board.
It got worse: yesterday, Farage proudly announced that
he had indeed found an MEP from a country not already represented in his
EFDD group, who was prepared to join and restore its status. However, and here
we encounter a significantly sized however, Robert Iwaszkiewicz represents the
Polish Congress of the New Right (KNP). And just how far to the right would
that be?
Well, it would be rather a long way to the right, so far
that it has been asserted that the KNP was too extreme even for the tastes of
Marine le Pen and the French Front National (FN). One
look at the Guardian’s headline, “Ukip
does deal with far-right, racist Holocaust-denier to save EU funding”,
tells you all you need to know about the level of desperation stooped to by Mr
Thirsty.
KNP leader Janus Korwin-Mikke recently declared that “the minimum wage should be ‘destroyed’ and
said that ‘four million n****rs’ lost their jobs in the US as a result of
President John F Kennedy signing a bill on the minimum wage in 1961. He went on
to claim that 20 million young Europeans were being treated as ‘negroes’ as a
result of the minimum wage. He ... was fined 10 days of allowances for his
comments”.
Nice
chap, eh? He’s also “called for the
vote to be taken away from women, has claimed that the difference between rape
and consensual sex is ‘very subtle’ and said that Adolf Hitler was ‘probably
not aware that Jews were being exterminated’”. He “told the Wroclaw Gazette earlier this year that beating would
‘help bring many wives back down to earth’”, then claimed it was a joke.
One can only wonder what UKIP’s main partner in the EFDD,
Beppe Grillo’s Five Star movement, makes of their latest recruit. Strangely,
given their recent attempts to turn voters away from the Kippers, the
right-leaning press in the UK has been silent on the affair. But then, the
far-right is a difficult area for some of them.
Just how ridiculous do UKIP’s manoeuvrings have to get for
the electorate to see this rabble of spivs and chancers for what they are? One can only wait and see.
2 comments:
From what I've seen of other articles on UKIP's choice of BFF, the on-line wing of the party is taking two main approaches.
Firstly there's the "It's all a media stitch up, he never said those things, he was only joking etc etc" approach
Then there's the Whataboutery, claiming that all the other UK parties cosy up to equally undesirable types (although the only evidence for this given (that I've encountered) seems to be that the one of the parties in the Tory's group is pro-Hamas...)
Never mind the policies and questions that may be raised, the mere fact that it needed a Pole to help them out of their financial sticky patch kept me smiling! I wonder how many candidates will mention that on the doorsteps. And does this particular Pole know what those candidates say about his countrymen?
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