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Ed Davey condems Tory alliance with “extreme right wingers and homophobes”

By Mark Pack | Fri 2nd October 2009 - 8:40 am

A follow-up to Wednesday’s post about the Conservative MEPs’ alliance with Valdemar Tomaševski, a homophobic Lithuanian MEP, with Ed Davey now commenting:

This is yet more evidence of the shameful way that Cameron has taken the Tories out of the centre-right mainstream of European politics, and allied them with a lunatic fringe of extreme right wingers and homophobes.

Cameron has been at pains to portray his party as one of modern, ‘liberal Conservatives’. It is hard to see where this fits in with an alliance with parties which support homophobic laws such as this.

Posted in News | Also tagged ed davey, homophobia and lithuania | 5 Comments

David Cameron’s European ally supports “deeply homophobic legislation”

By Mark Pack | Wed 30th September 2009 - 10:59 pm

Liberal Conspiracy has the story:

Despite the persistent criticism that it has allied itself with extremists, David Cameron’s Conservative Party now sits in the European Parliament with the European Reformists and Conservatives group (ECR), led by Poland’s Michal Kaminski – a man allegedly with a racist and homophobic past.

But so far it has gone unreported that another ally of the Conservatives in Europe has a much more serious and recent record of homophobia.

Valdemar Tomaševski, MEP from Lithuania, and member of the Tories’ Euro coalition, is on record as having branded homosexuality a “perversion”.

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Posted in News | Also tagged andrew reeves, conservative party, homophobia and michal kaminski | 1 Comment