Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Paul McCartney takes campaign to Brussels (From Congleton Guardian) Sir Paul McCartney is to take his "meat-free" campaign to Brussels next month as part of a European Parliament conference on the environment. The former Beatle will urge people to cut back on eating meat as part of the battle against climate change. He is attending a " Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less...
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A most curious juxtaposition. The article on the EU Politix site which recounts the sorry tale of former UKIP MEP Tom Wise, who was today jailed for defrauding the taxpayer of £39,000, actually carries a picture of leading Conservative MEP, Timothy Kirkhope. And Mr Kirkhope's picture also features prominently on the The EU Parliament main page (which will doubtless disappear overnight). Cranmer...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"Top Tories" usually aren't "top" but they are a favourite tabloid describer of every "naughty" Tory. If you want to become a Top Tory I suggest... 1. Get caught in bed with a goat. 2. Make questionable use of your expenses. 3. Wear inappropriate fancy dress. 4. Attack the party leadership again and again and again. This is the strategy being pursued relentlessly by Edward...
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I missed this story in yesterday's Sunday Times but that does not make it any less significant. As David Cameron struggles to keep his Euro sceptics in the box until after the next General Election he is also fighting a battle on another front, trying to limit the damage caused by his alliance with some rather dubious European bedfellows, made as part of a attempt to appease the Tory right wing. The...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Tony Blair was no enthusiast for Proportional Representation. He gave it to new bodies to indicate that he didn't think they mattered. But his introduction of the party list system for Strasbourg, while certainly having that motivation, also had another. The old European Parliamentary Labour Party had been a rich seam of dissent over many long years. Almost all of it was duly purged. To that end, the...
Tory Bear (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
You must know what TB means when he describes a drunk chick who has been thrown out of a nightclub for being an idiot and does that thing on the pavement where she screams and rants at the bouncers, blaming everyone else in the club for the fact she fell through a table. Eventually she just bursts into tears and is bundled into a cab by her more attractive friends. Well Edward McMillan-Scott is the...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Despite the shoulder to shoulder performance at the Manchester conference there is a significant body of Conservative opinion that is embarrassed about the party’s new friends in the east… One, it would appear a Westminster based, took the slightly desperate (not to mention pointless) action of trying to erase references Michal Kaminski’s previous life on the wild side of Polish...
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
If truth be told Wikiedia is not exactly a reliable source of information and it certainly would not be a port of call for any reputable historian to establish facts. It is also the case that politicians and political parties often alter their own entries or those of others to reflect the message they want to send. I have certainly corrected my own entry to remove what I consider to be inaccurate comments...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Far-right history of man leading Conservatives in Europe deleted using Parliament internet connection The Tories were last night accused of a "systematic cover-up" when it emerged that someone at the House of Commons had deleted internet details about a key European ally with a far-right past. Politically embarrassing information about Michal Kaminski, a Polish politician who now leads the...
Musings from Medway (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
An interesting article by Edward McMillan-Scott. ex-Tory, 'internationalist,' moderate and one-nation. He was kicked out of the Tory Party when he stood against Michal Kaminski for Vice-President . What I did not know last weekend, but I do now is very interesting indeed. We all knew that Kaminski is/was an anti-semite and homophobe if his past comments are taken at face-value. Evidence from an interview...
PoliticalHackUK (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Iain Dale has tracked down Michal Kaminski and interviewed him for Total Politics about claims of anti-semitism and homophobia. Naturally, Kaminski denies it, but Craig Murray tells a story from his life as a diplomat in Poland in the mid 1990s. When Alexander Kasniewski defeated Lech Walesa to become President of Poland in 1995, Kaminski was one of the right wing activists involved in lobbying the...
Next Left (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The Conservative Party has claimed that all scrutiny of Michal Kaminski, the controversial leader of its new grouping in the European Parliament, is somehow a Labour smear campaign. However, it was Tory MEP Edward McMillan-Scott who led the challenge to Kaminski over the last four months, losing the Tory whip as a result. But this seems to me to be becoming an ever less convincing defence. But an increasing...
Anthony Painter (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Well, it's been an incredible day for LabourList with the posting of an open letter from Stephen Fry and many others criticising the Tories' dalliance with Polish homophobe Michal Kaminski. Mr Fry tweeted the link to his 800,000 or so followers and since then Alex Smith, LabourList's Editor, has literally been holding the whole thing together straining every sinew in the process. He found time to post...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
The Irish "yes" to the Lisbon Treaty leaves the Conservative leadership at this week's conference in Manchester with a dilemma. This is because their latest pledge for an incoming Tory government – that if all countries had ratified there would be no referendum – is being challenged by Euro-sceptics. David Cameron will be right to resist them: they have done much damage already...
Calling England (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
A bright spark has just posted this on YouTube. It's from yesterday's Politics Show and shows Jon Sopel mediating between Dan Hannan and Edward Mcmillan-Scott the sleazebag MEP & Vice-President of the European Council who had the Conservative Whip withdrawn when he went against the Party to run for VP. I don't think I've ever seen Dan Hannan so angry and at the end of the programme Sopel issued...
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