Germany: It seems the United Kingdom was not alone in having a barking mad loony fundie party contest the European Elections (see Fetch the swingometer, Pagan Prattle 28th May 2004) - Germany has the Partei Bibeltreuer Christen (Bible-believing Christian Party, or something like that). As this poster, photographed in the centre of Berlin shows, they do not believe in the separation of church and state. Their platform also included the traditional (and nowhere in the Bible) ban on abortion, and the promotion of a non-existent, idealised family. They are currently celebrating scoring a massive 0.38% of the vote in the election - they needed just over 13 times that to get a seat. In Berlin itself, they scooped a whopping 0.24% of the vote. Depressingly, 30,000 more people voted for them this time than last.
June 24, 2004
What I did on my holidays
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There's a FAR more worrying presence in the European Parliament at the moment; over in Poland an outfit whose name translates as the "League Of Polish Families" has actually got some MEPs elected. One of the prime movers in this party, which is very nationalist, very hardline Catholic, and of course very concerned about "Freemasonry" in the EU, is well-known holocaust denier Ryszard Bender.
Now you're probably asking, "why should we be so worried about a bunch of extremist Polacks"? Simple. Robert Killr-Oilslick and his UKIP chums have now formed a parliamentary alliance with these charming people.
Interesting. Tez, do you have any links to English-language information about the amusingly-named Mr. Bender?
YHM.... quite a bit of background on him.
Tez.