Now there's a title to inspire, eh? But this year's euro-elections in the North West need to be taken very seriously indeed, in that there is a very real danger that the execrable Nick Griffin, ex-National Front member and now leader of the fascist BNP, will get in. Now, the BNP may be busy pretending to be a respectable party but they are still a bunch of vile little racists (not to mention their views on anyone else who isn't white, male and conforming to their narrow and basically fundamentalist views on society - I wouldn't fancy being a single mum under them, or a women looking for reproductive choices.)
It genuinely seems that the best bets to keep these bastards out are a) a good turnout overall, and b) a high level of votes for the Green Party. The latter argument is strong enough that Respect have, to their credit, stood aside and asked left-wing voters who would have supported them to vote Green instead. So here are a few pertinent links, such as a few apposite words from the chair of Manchester Green Party, the campaign site for Peter Cranie, Green candidate in the European elections and some links to Unite Against Fascism groups in the North-West. I did want to include a link to Manchester No Borders here but can't actually find anything from them on the subject...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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An alternative to the Green Party might be Pro Democracy Libertas EU.
ReplyDeleteThis pro-EU party started out as the organizer of the "No" vote in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. It is now setting up across Europe as a party that wishes to reform the EU institutions to make them accountable to the people.
Its three main aims are:
1. To get rid of the Lisbon Treaty, which was rejected twice when it was called the European Constitution and once under its new name, but each time that voters have given the "wrong" answer Brussels has just resubmitted the proposal. Even now the Irish are being told to reconsider, and no doubt the Irish government in its current straitened circumstances is being bullied.
2. To make the EU Commissioners elected rather than the appointed cronies of the national governmental leaders. This would impede the current practice whereby governments do deals in "smoke filled rooms" to support each others proposals for directives. These directives are then produced by the EU Commission and approved by the Council of Ministers and presented to the various parliaments as fait accompli which they are obliged to translate into law. By this means the executive arm of government across Europe marginalise their parliaments, and erode democracy.
3. Reduce the squandering of taxpayers' money by an organization that had not had its accounts signed off by its auditors for 14 years.