Was it a coincidence or did David Cameron choose the day of the Speaker farce to bury bad news? That was the day he chose to announce the Tories’ toxic new alliances in the European Parliament, a bunch of racists, fascists and climate change deniers. Their new friends abroad include a Dutch ultra-religious party, the Christian Union, which believes shops should not open on Sundays, opposes abortion, believes that town hall officials should refuse to perform gay marriages and opens its arms to asylum seekers only if they can prove that seeking asylum was their god’s will. Europe watcher Denis MacShane says: “We know about the gay-bashing and anti-Semitic Poles as well as the Latvian extremists who venerate the Waffen SS and the Hungarian Democratic Forum and its dodgy financial deals but really, are the Tories now going to support campaigns to ban Sunday shopping?” It should be interesting to see who the international speakers are at the Tory conference. Representatives should start practising their salutes – and saying their prayers – now.
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