Rob Merrick on politics: Fanatic alliances

THERE is a party seeking your vote in tomorrow’s Euro elections with policies so dangerous they seriously threaten Britain’s future prosperity.

However, I’m not talking about the racists and fascists of the reviled British National Party, about which so many fears have been raised.

No, my beef is with a party that expects to top the poll when the results are revealed on Sunday, rather than simply sneak a seat or two – the Conservative Party.

Of course, I’m not suggesting the Tories deserve the loathing rightly heaped on the BNP, just that David Cameron’s Euro-policy is almost as bonkers.

It has gone almost unremarked on because of the expenses furore, but Mr Cameron is getting into bed with some far-right parties almost as despicable as the BNP he condemns.

Consider the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom Party, several of whose MPs apparently marched recently alongside Latvian SS veterans.

Or take a look at the Polish Law and Justice party, whose leaders warned that President Obama’s victory marked the “end of the civilisation of the white man”.

In the Czech Republic, Mr Cameron is cuddling up with the Civic Democrats, whose leader is less repugnant but who is on record as saying: “Global warming is a false myth.”

Now, you might consider these parties to be the worst kind of nasty oddballs depressingly found in weaker democracies, especially at time of economic crisis – and you would be right.

However, they will soon be firm allies of Britain’s Conservative Party when it carries out its threat to quit the centre-right European People's Party, because that grouping supports the EU project.

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