3. Racism and xenophobia are now part and parcel of European elections. Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel made their views against the accession of Turkey, a majority Muslim nation, the archstone of their campaign. The manifesto of the centre-right EPP federation explicitly referred to Europe as a Judeo-Christian concept. No room for Muslims then.Gosh, well these racist xenophobes sound awful. Let's see what else MacShane has to say:
10. David Cameron was rejected by more than seven out of 10 voters yesterday. He now has to put in place his isolationist EU politics by breaking links with mainstream centre-right parties
So having just denounced the mainstream European centre right parties as racist and xenophobic, he denounces David Cameron for having nothing to do with them.
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I do think Cameron's EU policy is absurd, but I imagine so does he. Why doesn't he simply apply to join the socialist group and make the argument it's all just a bit of fun when asked why?
Interesting logic.
It is not logical.
Signed: Spock
If the Conservatives are Euroskeptic so were Libertas. Additionally UKIP, England Democrats, no2EU and the BNP were all Euroskeptic.
So Dennis' claim that 7 out of 10 rejected Conservative scepticism is only true in a very narrow sense.
As Richard North noted
The next thing of interest is the "anti-EU" vote. Here, we can take UKIP, BNP, the English Democrats, the SLP and No2EU as the core vote. Collectively, they polled 400,487 which, at 32.7 percent share, far outstrips the winning Conservative vote. In other words, the Tories, with their pro-EU policy are firmly in the minority.
When the anti-Lisbon treaty vote is examined, however, we can add in the Tories, the Christian Party, Jury Team and Libertas. That brings the vote to 700,289 or 57 percent of the vote cast. It can be assumed, therefore, that in Yorkshire at least, the government has no mandate whatsoever to implement the Lisbon treaty..
Obviously other regions had a lower percentage
"I do think Cameron's EU policy is absurd, but I imagine so does he.".
How so?
"So Dennis' claim that 7 out of 10 rejected Conservative scepticism is only true in a very narrow sense. ".
Being true in any sense is quite impressive for MacShane.
How so?
Well I think he would probably rather be out of the EU altogether, not discussing relationships with weird fringe parties.
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