{"id":13578,"date":"2009-06-02T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/06\/02\/1311\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T22:24:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:24:02","slug":"the-tories-new-friends-in-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-tories-new-friends-in-europe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories&#039; new friends in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7908974@N05\/522355664\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/241\/522355664_616c5dc1e7_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7908974@N05\/522355664\/\">Homo Teletubbies<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/7908974@N05\/\">fineshot<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>As I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/06\/what-to-vote-on-thursday\/\">yesterday<\/a>, the Tories are planning to leave the EPP-ED after the elections to the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian today have an excellent article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/jun\/02\/david-cameron-alliance-polish-nationalists\">their new friends in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few quotes from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] at the weekend in Warsaw, Cameron sealed his new alliance in Europe with Krupa&#8217;s rightwing party in Poland, the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS) run by twin brothers Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczy\u0144ski. [&#8230;] Paranoia towards the outside world, ingrained prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuals, fundamentalist Roman Catholicism, climate change denial and hostility towards Germany are some of the views espoused by the Kaczy\u0144skis&#8217; party.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Cameron is ditching two decades of Conservative co-operation with the mainstream centre-right Christian democrats in the parliament, the European People&#8217;s party (EPP) \u2013 to the fury of centre-right grandees in Europe \u2013 on the grounds that it is dominated by European federalists and supporters of the Lisbon treaty which the Tories oppose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If anybody reading this is considering voting for the Tories, do remember that a vote for the Conservatives is no longer a vote for the EPP, it&#8217;s a vote for a xenophobic and paranoid group of parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homo Teletubbies Originally uploaded by fineshot As I wrote yesterday, the Tories are planning to leave the EPP-ED after the elections to the European Parliament. The Guardian today have an excellent article about their new friends in Europe. A few quotes from the article: [&#8230;] at the weekend in Warsaw, Cameron sealed his new alliance in Europe with Krupa&#8217;s rightwing party in Poland, the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS) run by twin brothers Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczy\u0144ski. [&#8230;] Paranoia towards the outside world, ingrained prejudice and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}