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1 November 2009

Beyond Kaminski

Have we forgotten the Latvians and the rest?

By Mehdi Hasan

Has the Kaminski brouhaha distracted us from the bigger picture? The Tory blogosphere may want us to change the subject and move on, but the reality is that the cuddly Cameroonian Conservatives remain allied, in Brussels, with a bunch of whackjobs, loons and bigots. Will Straw has the details. Does David Cameron, for example, know that the Lijst Dedecker in Belgium includes an MP who has — in a manner reminiscent of the BNP’s Nick Griffin — described Islam as a “cancer” and called for “global chemotherapy” against it? Does Cameron even care?

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