I first became concerned about the views of  Conservative MEP candidate Westminster Councillor for Hyde Park ward Jean-Paul Floru when I debated with him at THIS hustings meeting in Wandsworth

Earlier in the campaign I had been on a panel discussion which included him organised by  Burson Marsteller. See HERE

At that time he also seemed very right wing and libertarian, to such an extent that following the Wandsworth meeting I decided to  undertake some research on his views.

Further to my post yesterday HERE on the Conservatives number four candidate JP Floru and his response, I want to highlight the real face of David Cameron’s Conservatives.  Let’s be clear.  Although the Tories will not win four seats in London, if during the next  five years one of the Conservative MEPs moves on to take up another job or leaves the European Parliament for some other reason, then the next person on the list who wishes to take up the position becomes an MEP.

When Theresa Villiers MEP became a MP in 2005 she stood down from the European Parliament and right wing Libertarian supporter Syed Kamall replaced her as an MEP by moving up the list.

Syed Kamall  has attended the Libertarian Alliance conference as a key speaker: http://www.libertarian.co.uk/conferences/conf05record.htm

The views of his Libertarian friends are deeply unpleasant including arguments against restricting abusive and child pornography: http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/polin/polin096.pdf.

It is quite possible that libertarian Mr. Floru could become a MEP at some point in the future if not now.  I have published elsewhere on my website CLICK HERE

It is a detailed dossier on Mr. Floru who claims to be a mainstream politician.  In Belgium he accepts he is close to people who have been members of the Belgian equivalent of the BNP.  If members of the BNP in Britain applied to join the Conservative party I doubt they would be accepted.  Yet in Europe the political equivalents of the BNP are welcomed to be in alliance with the Conservatives.  So vote Conservative and work with racists?

By leaving the mainstream European People Party in the European Parliament the Conservatives are now looking to work closely with far right parties elsewhere in Europe. If you are homophobic and anti-semitic David Cameron will have no problem working with you,  as my post HERE on the proposed new Tory allies highlighted

Given this, it could be said that the Conservatives were being honest when they selected as one of their leading London candidates a man who favours individualism, and would therefore oppose the collectivist NHS. On the Conservative Party website JP Floru proudly says:

I am most likely to say: “The government must do nothing.  The free market will solve this”.

Private health for all, just like that other Conservative MEP who thinks the NHS makes you “iller” (sic) Daniel Hannan?

This is the real face of the Conservatives that Cameron tries to conceal.

Just take a look at Mr. Floru’s friends:

Jean-Marie Dedecker, leader of the Dedecker Party has endorsed racist and islamophobic party members, such as Jurgen Verstrepen and Patrick Ghys as I highlighted yesterday:

He proposes to build boot camps in order to tackle youth crime: “It should be possible to sentence minors for a number of years to boot-camp jails.”

I am all for being tough on crime but putting children in boot camps????? What does Mr. Floru say on this?

Mr. Floru is also happy to work with sexists too.

In an interview with the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad this year he said:

I maintain close contact with Jean-Marie Dedecker, Boudewijn Bouckaert and Derk-Jan Eppink.”

This is the same Mr. Eppink who has written in his 2004 book ‘Avonturen van een Nederbelg[1]’:

–       “young ambitious women” are linked to “social frustration” among men.

–       Flemish women are much more agreeable than Dutch women, as they are supposedly less emancipated.

Eppink sympathizes with Hans Hillen, former Dutch MP, who complains about the rising numbers of female politicians: “I don’t know many nice women in politics. Often they are more ambitious than men and they lack a good sense of humour. They always want to win. You can go for a drink with a male politician after having had a political disagreement. You can forget about that with female politicians.”[2]

Here’s Mr. Eppink on diversity in society:

“As a Dutchman living in Flanders I have the impression that the life of a white, heterosexual Dutchman with a good job and an expensive car is not easy. He has to pay taxes and has to shut up. He gets blamed for racial and sexual discrimination, the fact that he earns much money is deemed ‘anti-social’ and his car pollutes the environment. As he does not belong to any minority group, he is ‘unlucky’. Soon he will have to pay penance for slavery.”[3]

Anyone who wants to cast their vote against  racism on Thursday needs to know that leading London Conservatives work closely with politicians who advocate racist policies. It is not just the BNP who will work with racists in Europe,  some of London’s Conservatives will do so too.

For the full dossier with over 70 references including much Flemish source material please click HERE.

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[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=JzbTOF-J7qAC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&dq=eppink+vrouwen&source=bl&ots=m4uXSJhQC9&sig=oWIUgc_zoGLOF3pRG70zvzyj3qc&hl=fr&ei=ay7vScP3HYXSjAfd_pgR&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA245,M1

[2] Eppink, Derk-Jan (2004): Avonturen van een Nederbelg, p244.

http://www3.lijstdedecker.com/docs/LDD_EUROPEES_PROGRAMMA.pdf

[3] Eppink, Derk-Jan (2004): Avonturen van een Nederbelg, p245.