Nigel Farage and UKIP have made a new
friend in Europe, but not the kind of friend a democratic party should be
allying with. Nigel Farage’s new
alliance has been made with the radical right-wing Polish MEP Robert Jaroslaw
Iwaszkiewicz, who recently has been recruited by Nigel Farage to join the
Europe for Freedom and Direct Democracy group (EFDD), the anti-European Group
in Brussels. Last May, this new recruit
stated to the Wroclaw Gazette, that he was ‘convinced’ that wife beating would
‘help bring many wives back down to Earth’, when asked about the subject. Iwaszkiwwicz followed these comments by
stating that he ‘did not beat his wife’ as they get along, but ‘unfortunately’ he
‘never beat’ his ‘children’. When
questioned why he said ‘unfortunately’, the Polish Politician explained
‘Because it would have toughened them up’[1]. Robert Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz belongs to the
far-right Polish party, The Congress of the New Right, and has defended party
leader Jorun Korin-Mikke, about his provocative comments on subjects such as
rape, Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust, women should not have the vote and
defended further accusations of racist language and his claim that ‘democracy
was the stupidest form of government ever perceived’. When making alliances with such MEPs’, the
British public need to ask the question whether UKIP is the right party to
promote equality and freedom in the UK, when they are making alliances with
such extremists; is this just a controversial move by a democratic party or
does this alliance truly exhibit the extremity of the ideologies of UKIP behind
its beer swilling exterior.
Olde John Bull
[1] A
Bennett and Ed Simone, ‘UKIPs new ally
Joked about Wife Beating and Defending Hitler’, Huffington Post UK,
20/10/2014
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