Daily Stormer
June 25, 2014
This is highly unfortunate.
Here is the Guardian gloating about it:
The plans of Europe’s extreme right to try to sabotage the EU from within were hit after Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders, the French and Dutch far right leaders, failed to gain enough allies to qualify as a single caucus in the new European parliament – denying them precious funding, speaking time and committee positions.
Following European parliamentary elections last month, won by Le Pen’s Front National, the various parties had until Tuesday to form a caucus comprising at least 25 MEPs from at least seven countries.
The Le Pen-led grouping includes Wilders’ Freedom party, the Austrian party of the same name, Italy’s Liga Nord and Belgium’s Flemish separatist Vlaams Belang. Le Pen and Wilders easily mustered the seats but fell short of enough countries.
Wilders and Le Pen said they refused to collaborate with a new party of the extreme right in Poland, viewed as antisemitic but also certain to clash with Wilders’ and Le Pen’s views on immigration to their countries from eastern Europe.
The Polish New Right Congress – which advocates abolishing women’s voting rights – and the Lithuanian Order and Justice parties said they refused to join the Le Pen group.
The Lithuanian party preferred to join Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s Europe of Freedom and Democracy parliamentary group.
To add to Le Pen’s humiliation, Farage poached a Front National defector who was threatened with expulsion from the French far-right party after supporting moves to give non-EU residents in France the right to vote in local elections.
On Tuesday, the Front National issued a statement saying it would fail to meet the midnight deadline because it had refused to ally itself with parties with “incompatible” values.
Why can’t Marine and Nigel just kiss and make-up?