29-May-2011 - Hate the EU, Love the gravy train in The EFD

29-May-2011 - Hate the EU, Love the gravy train in The EFD

Hate the EU, Love the gravy train

29 May 2011 - Issue : 937

David Campbell-Bannerman, UK Independence Party MEP has quit the party and rejoined the Conservatives, saying, " I have been pleased with the robust stance taken by David Cameron and Conservative MEPs over the EU budget negotiations and I believe that it is Conservative MEPs who are working hard to defend Britain's interests."

But was that the only reason?

Campbell-Bannerman has been unhappy for a long time and that he has been negotiating a new seat for himself in the next European elections, and it is this that has complicated the defection. It is suggested that the Conservative MEP, Giles Chichester is going to let him have his place as Chichester intends to stand down at the end of the current parliament.

It is beginning to look like the Eurosceptic member is adapting the earnest plea of St Augustine, “Save me from Europe.... but not just yet.”

In 2010, Campbell-Bannerman wrote a trenchant criticism of David Cameron and the Conservatives in the UK Guardian newspaper, accusing them of hypocrisy, "Over the years observers in Brussels have learned first hand how the Conservatives talk Eurosceptic at home but behave quite differently when they arrive in the Belgian capital to carry out their parliamentary work." He added,  "It's overwhelmingly clear now that trusting Cameron with Europe will be as misguided as trusting Blair on Iraq."

There is one tiny little matter... Lega Nord are now the largest party in the EFD Group. Will they now exert their influence on the Group, and how would UKIP’s image in the UK be affected by the antics of Mario Borghezio, who spent defection day promoting a book on how white people are the victims of racial harassment?

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TERHO, Sampo- Perussuomalaiset - Finland

Sampo TERHO: to view his EU web site CLICK HERE
Sampo Terho has replaced Timo Soini as a member of the vile racist, sexually intollerant, xenophobic EFD, which not only espouses and incites violence in pursuit of its political aims but also practices such violence and in association supporting pro EU Politicians and some with an overt anti Jewish stance. That The Pan EU Political Party EFD grouping is partly defined by its homophobia is irrefutable.
With hindsight it seems Farage did not act on principles but seemingly for personal gain in the IndDemGroup as he seems all too willing to prostitute his party, his Country and his principles now that it happens to suit him financially and in terms of authority in forming his squalid Pan EU Political Party grouping of The EFD.


EFD Group co-president Nigel Farage welcomes new Finnish MEP Sampo Terho to the EFD Group at a group meeting.

Sampo Terho, the replacement for MEP Timo Soini took up his seat officially on Monday 9th May in the European Parliament. He addressed the EFD Group last Tuesday in Brussels, and will be welcomed again at the group meeting in Strasbourg later on Tuesday 10th May. MEP Sampo is a master of science in philosophy and the researcher of the Finnish National Defence University. Terho has served as a peace-keeper in Kosovo.