That was us treating them fairly. It’s the press that have been doing their “damnedest” to drive up sales by providing a scapegoat.

We should be welcoming the Polish into a democratic Europe, rather than pursuing the double whammy of being inconsistently rude about their politicians for having been there when it wasn’t a free country and doing our damnedest to keep their workers out of Britain.

The Common Agricultural Policy of the EU is one of the largest subsidies in the world, “it represents 48% of the EU’s budget [or] €49.8 billion in 2006.” That is a lot of money in anyone’s book, but when it appears hardly anyone…

That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard so far – pointing out Kaminski’s past is racism itself. Hilarious.

The EPP contains Fine Gael, the successor of the Army Comrades Association, whose Blueshirts in the 1930s sought to emulate Hitler and Mussolini (no gratuitous bad jokes about their competence, please). They also contain the Austrian People’s Party, the successor organization the Fatherland Front and its subsidiary the Christian Social Party, both of whom were horribly implicated in the Anschluss and the ensuing Nazi administration. And, albeit understandably, the Finnish Kokoomus party collaborated with the Germans during the war. The Spanish Popular Party was founded by Franco’s Minister of Tourism. And, perhaps most famously, there’s the Italian Party now called PdL, but formerly called MSI, which was the refoundation of Mussolini’s own party.

Likewise, the PES has the obvious renamed Communist parties in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, and so on. We could start mentioning purges, Stalin, and every other word that might offend the purity of your bodily fluids.

Perhaps we should all go and vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party.

The attacks on Mr Kaminski are worse than childish. They deserve far more disdain than the stupid whispers about what members of the Labour government did as students. For they don’t reflect on Mr Kaminski per se, but on the amount of time for which democracy has been legal in Poland. They are precariously close to racism.

He wasn’t the head of the fucking grouping was he? And how big was that grouping compared to this one? How many times does this point have to be drummed into you thickos?

You mean Jews?

Not really, it’s a a very un-free-market policy.

The Lisbon stuff is far more revealing – principally because it puts the lie to what Cameron said about the possibility of delays to Polish & Czech ratification. Certainly Polish ratification looks like it’ll be swift if the treaty is that popular amongst rival political parties.

All of these parties are members of the EPP. But Ben Summerskill and Stephen Fry never once objected to their ‘extreme’ and ‘offensive’ views, and never demanded of David Cameron that he disassociate from such ‘homophobes’ and ‘fascists’.

HT – Cranmer

But the Lisbon Treaty isn’t the reason the Tories made for forming a new alliance, in fact seeing as Cameron made the promise to leave the EPP prior to the signing of the Lisbon treaty it could not possibly have been the reason for forming a new alliance.