Sunny adds: In the Observer today, whitehall editor Toby Helm and foreign secretary David Miliband let rip into the Tories over their EU allies. Wonder how long the Tories will keep defending them.
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This month’s Total Politics magazine has an “exclusive” interview with Polish MEP Michal Kaminski. Mr Kaminski has been offering a lot of ‘exclusive’ interviews lately in order to clear his name. Unfortunately for him these keep raising more questions than they answer.

Writing in the Jewish Chronicle, Martin Bright says, Kaminski’s opinions should ring loud alarm bells. The Fabian’s Sunder Katwala states out that, “not all of Kaminski’s [recent] statements seem to stand up well to scrutiny”, and offers four questions that Kaminiski would do well to clear up if he is to avoid further scrutiny. The former Tory MEP Edward McMillan-Scott has also offered several inconsistencies in what Kaminski has recently said.

Put that aside in this case. Also bat aside the spectacle of Mr Dale letting Kaminski get away with opposing gay adoption without offering any concrete reason other than stating he’s not homophobic but opposes it anyway. Iain Dale has been conspicuously silent on Soho Politico’s investigation on their ally from Lithuania.

Let’s focus instead on the politics of Europe.

In the interview Mr Kaminski states why he was attracted to the new alliance:

We share the same views about the future of Europe. We share the same vision of a more democratic, flexible, business friendly European Union and I think also we share a commitment to keeping the EU as a union of independent states.

But the interviewer then neglects to ask why, if that is the case, do their positions diverge so radically on fundamental issues? Kaminski supports the Lisbon treaty – a fact that is being papered over desperately.

And consider this: Daniel Hannan MEP has published another video calling for the Common Agricultural Policy to be scrapped. Kaminski has earlier stated:

We must be allied with those EU countries that defend the CAP.

It is doubtful that such gross inconsistencies can be ignored for long.

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