EU Member States And Their Political Opponents

ANDREW Brons has again warned MEPs, in a contribution to the European Parliament, that some Member States of the European Union are far from democratic in the way they deal with their political opponents.

Yesterday, during the evening session in Strasbourg, he was able draw attention to the heavy-handed behaviour of some Governments, in a similar speech to the one he made to the a Joint Parliamentary Meeting of the European Parliament and the Parliaments of Member States just last week.

Andrew’s ability to catch the eye of the Parliament’s speaker and committee chairmen to make his pronoucements on a wide range of topics, has attracted the attention of the media, and Andrew’s latest contribution might well feature on BBC 1’s Politics Show for Yorkshire & the Humber, this weekend.

This is what the British National Party MEP had to say:

“The European Union would like to see itself as a union of democratic member states. However, we must look at the reality.

In Belgium, only a few years ago, the state took steps to ban one of the larger political parties. In Germany, at about the same time, there were unsuccessful attempts to ban a party on the basis of incriminating statements made by people who were shown to be paid state operatives.

In Hungary, opposition parties are physically attacked by officers of the state, their members arrested and tortured.

In the United Kingdom, a militia (above) sponsored by the Governing Party and by the Leader of the Opposition, carries out violent and sometimes armed attacks on the Government’s enemies.

There are restrictions on non-violent freedom of speech in nearly all EU countries. Indeed the European Union is in the forefront of trying to legislate against states of mind – various phobia – which can only be described only as thought crime”.