THE member of the european parliament (MEP) that covers Thurrock, Richard Howitt has made a barnstorming speech at the Labour party conference in which he slams the record of both the Conservatives and UKIP.
Mr Howitt said:
“In the last five years we’ve voted on whether or not whole countries which are key export markets for Britain go bankrupt; on the balance between the right-to-know and the right to privacy in the exploding digital age and on the true price of carbon emissions for the future of our planet.
Conservative MEPs have voted to stop action against people traffickers, against tax cheats, against domestic abuse, to reject European cash to help Britain’s foodbanks. They even refused to condemn an attempt for the World Health Organisation to classify homosexuality as a disease.
It really does make a difference who we elect to the European Parliament.
And make no mistake UKIP is a second Conservative Party. It is fascinating to watch Tory and UKIP MEPs compete to deny climate-change.
The only green thing about the Tories is their envy at UKIP’s rise.
UKIP.That totalitarian, climate-denying, vain, Stalinist, dictatorial, squabbling, discriminatory, extreme party called UKIP.
When I say called, those are all things they have called themselves.
After they got elected in Norfolk, one of their councillors actually fell asleep within ten minutes of his first council meeting.
Putting the kip in Ukip!
But the latest incident with Godfrey Bloom shows there is a dividing line in politics between being popular and dangerous popularism – and it is a line that the whole of UKIP crosses.
Which is why Labour is right to support the referendum lock but to reject pandering to Euroscepticism over an EU referendum pledge now.
Our message to David Cameron is if you pander to Little England, you end up as Prime Minister of a country that gets called a little island.
William Hague famously lost one election on Europe.
And on 22nd May 2014 he and his cohort will lose another.
My god Richard you’re really scared of the next election and UKIP. Mind you looking at the Condems and Labours record you may be right to worry. the right are turning to UKIP and the Left are turning to the greens.
You remind me of a Labour MP in the monty python clip. The Labour Parrots dead. Knock-Knock. But its dead.
Just a quick point of accuracy, Mr Howitt – Stalinists are left-wing and UKIP are right-wing. Just saying. 😀
Wow being mauled by Howitt is like being mauled by a dumb toothless sheep.
For an extremist we should look at Richard Howitt MEPs support for totalitarian communist Cuba.
I think Mr, sorry I forgot his name, should up the extremist rhetoric. It just doesn’t suit he left to be this tame on a witch hunt. Public burnings anyone.
NoVoice – You really are a one-issue circus act, aren’t you?
Why are you commenting on this Myles if I’m a one trick pony. I thought you were on a bus.
Here’s one for you Myles, they’re scrapping the census after 200 years. Why do you think that is?
NoVoice – Because they’re fed up of people putting ‘Jedi’ down as their religion? LOL :p
And it must be the Tories that are stopping the census, not Labour. Perhaps it’s to hide the number of people who they have assisted the suicides or premature deaths of with their despicable policies? Just a suggestion. 😀
And yes, I WAS on a bus but it was going to Basildon where it dropped me off for an appointment unlike the bus you’re on that just goes round and round in ever decreasing circles until it disappears up its own exhaust pipe. B)
Oh look, the old climate change debate again, I love how these politicians know what is happening with the climate when even the eminent scientists cannot categorically confirm the reasons and also why there has been no change in the past 14 years, the skeptic in me thinks that this is all some political hot potato to enforce higher taxes etc on the gullible public
As for the comment about UKIP being a squabbling party maybe those in glasshouses should not throw stones, also he mentions about a councillor falling asleep at a meeting, having watched the House of Commons I often see MP’s asleep during question time and other conferences, this MEP is a hypocrite but as he is Labour that is part of the mold i suppose……