UKIP: The Anti-Nazi League turn their guns on Nigel Farage and UKIP

The leaders of Anti- Nazi League are not too happy with Nigel Farage and his MEPs after they joined forces with the neo-fascists in the new EU Parliament.

Anti-Nazi League leaflets have already been distributed in Brussels and there are plans for League members to demonstrate at future UKIP meetings, including UKIP’s next party conference.

Here is the text taken from one of their leaflets:

STOP THE NAZI GROUP IN THE EP

The new parliamentary group, Europe of Freedom and Democracy, headed by UKIP Leader Nigel Farage, stands for neither freedom nor democracy.

This Group includes:

Morten Messerschmidt - sentenced to 14 days conditional imprisonment for violation of Penal Code Section 266b (a racist offence) in 2002.

In 2007, this "gentleman", was forced to resign his political post in Denmark after being seen "Heiling Hitler" and singing Nazi songs in a Copenhagen bar.

Messerschmidt's party, the DPP, was rejected by the new British Conservative group, and stands condemned by the Paris based European Jewish Congress for its approach to the immigration. The DPP has also been accused of Islamophobia. Nonetheless, it has found a home in the group Europe of Freedom and Democracy.

The True Finns Party - which wishes to restrict entry to Finland for foreigners. Its leader, Timo Soini, was the only Finnish party leader to refuse to sign an anti-racism declaration in April 2009. He will sit as an MEP in the group Europe of Freedom and Democracy.

Lega Nord - In March 2006 this Italian party was expelled from the Independence & Democracy Group when a senior member of the UK Independence Party said that the group "faced a crisis because the Lega Nord was becoming increasingly extreme on the subject of race, and persistently put links to extremist organisations on its website."

Now they will not only sit in UKIP's Europe of Freedom and Democracy group, but are expected to be offered the group's co-presidency. Nigel Farage will tell you that Lega Nord is "reformed". Is it?

MEP Mario Borghezio, convicted of assaulting a 12 year old child in 1993, and setting fire to the possessions of a vagrant during a vigilante raid in 2005, was arrested by Belgian police for anti-Islamic offences as recently as 2007.

Former Farage colleague and Ind Dem MEP Matteo Salvini was forced to resign from the Italian Parliament just last week. He had called for racial segregation on Milan's busses, and was filmed chanting racist slogans.

The party is particularly notorious for its homophobic position. In 2007, Giancarlo Gentilini, Lega Nord's deputy mayor of Treviso, called for the "ethnic cleansing" of homosexuals." I will immediately give orders to my forces so that they can carry out an ethnic cleansing of faggots," he told a local tv station. "The faggots must go to other cities where they are welcome. Here in Treviso there is no chance for faggots or the like."

In that same year he taunted Pecoraro Scanio, Italian Minister of the Environment and an open bisexual, saying: "In Gorgo, a woman was raped with a chisel in the back and in the front. I say to Pecoraro Scanio that I want the same thing happens to his mother and his sister."

Leader of Lega Nord, Umberto Bossi, himself a former MEP and member of the Ind Dem group, has said that migrants heading for Italy should be “blown out of the water” by the Italian Navy.
Leader of Britain's far-right BNP, Nick Griffin said last week, about boats bringing refugees to Britain: "Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats. Anyone coming up with measures like that we'll support."

Perhaps the BNP should join the EFD?

Parliamentarians - we call on you to turn your backs on these racists and homophobes. There should be no place in the EP for Nazis!

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For months Farage has been attacking the BNP and spreading lies that they have infiltrated UKIP in order to justify various expulsions and his attempts to change UKIP's constitution. Despite this he now finds himself targeted by the BNP's most bitter enemy.

Poetic justice!