A former leader of the Conservatives in the European parliament defected to the Liberal Democrats in protest at the Tories’ decision to form a group with “extremist” politicians.

Edward McMillan-Scott, a veteran campaigner for human rights who led the Tory group in Strasbourg between 1997-2001, told David Cameron he was leaving the party because it propagates “extremism abroad”.

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In a letter to Cameron, McMillan-Scott wrote: “You continue to refuse to accept that Michal Kaminski, who now leads the ECR and against whom I stood and won re-election as vice-president of the European parliament last July, has had ‘anti-Semitic, homophobic and racist links’. You say that you are against extremism at home, yet you propitiate it abroad.” Nicholas Watt, The Guardian.

I’m not so bothered about a Tory MEP defecting to the Liberal Democrats – personally I find them even more odious than the Tories

What Macmillan-Scott fails to understand is that Cameron is a xenophobic, homophobic, racist if he wasn’t why on earth else would he have anything to do with Michal Kaminski let allow him lead his MEPs – A vote for the Tories is a vote for Nazis.