Ukip does deal with far-right, racist Holocaust-denier to save EU funding

[Turborama]

Ukip has struck a deal with a Polish MEP whose far-right party leader casually uses racial slurs and questions the Holocaust following fears that its grouping in Europe would lose millions of pounds in taxpayers’ funds.

Nigel Farage’s Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group recruited an MEP from the Congress of the New Right with the blessing of its controversial leader Janusz Korwin-Mikke, according to reports from Poland. The Polish MEP Robert Iwaszkiewicz is to join the EFDD’s ranks as an individual, which will restore the group, a Ukip spokesman said.

The deal means that the EFDD group, set up by Farage, has 25 MEPs from seven countries, which should guarantee that Ukip will maintain about £1m a year in funding. The group received €2.6m (£2.1m) in 2013. Ukip accounts for 53.3% of the group.

The deal is yet to be confirmed by the European parliament, after Iwaszkiewicz’s application was handed in this afternoon.

Full article: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/20/ukip-does-deal-with-far-right-to-save-european-grouping

[merrily]

1. $$$$$$$$$, eom

[LeftishBrit]

2. Words fail me...

though I shouldn't be shocked by anything that UKIP does.

[Enthusiast]

3. Did Europeans forget what "Far Right" means?

Jesus Christ. These Nazi fuck guys should be in hiding.

[Turborama]

4. Another Angry Voice: Who is Nigel Farage's new Polish mate?

We all had a good laugh when it was reported that UKIP's so-called European Freedom and Direct Democracy group had collapsed after the withdrawal of the Latvian MEP Iveta Grigule, who quit the group within six months of joining it, meaning that they had representation from fewer than the seven EU nations necessary to form an official group and claim £millions in subsidies from the EU.

I'm pretty sure anyone but the most hardcore of UKIP tribalists must have thought "good job too ... what on earth is an anti-EU party doing gobbling up subsidies from the organisation they supposedly oppose anyway?"

Unfortunately Farage was quick to find a makeweight MEP from elsewhere to fill out his group again in order to requalify them to continue riding the EU funding gravy train. The MEP he found was The Polish MEP Robert Iwaszkiewicz, who comes from a political party so fanatically right-wing that even the French Front National wanted absolutely nothing to do with them!

In this article I'm going to take a closer look at the ragtag bunches of parties that Nigel Farage builds around UKIP in order to gobble up EU subsidies, and then go on to look at UKIP's new Polish friend and the party that he represents.

Continues here: http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/who-is-nigel-farages-new-polish-mate.html

[non sociopath skin]

5. Have these people no shame?????

Answer: No, they haven't.



The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

6. Just to add...

that some of my ancestors left Poland because of people very much like Iwaszkiewicz. Well, at least the lucky ones did. So I feel very strongly about collaboration with such people!