Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
(not satire – it’s Iain Duncan Smith!)
No one should be surprised by the extremities of Duncan Smith’s attacks on the welfare state.
After all, Duncan Smith has a history of links to far-right politics – including racist and fascist organisations.
- In 1995, Duncan Smith was one of a few Tory MPs who met with senior figures of the racist and anti-semitic French National Front in Westminster. Le Pen’s deputy, Bruno Gollnisch MEP, later said Duncan Smith and other Tory MPs they met were “sympathetic” to their views:
“I came to meet members of the
Conservative Party sympathetic to our views… I met Duncan Smith and
others in their offices and later we got together for less formal talks
in a bar somewhere in the Parliament building.“
- The vice-president of Duncan Smith’s leadership campaign team in Wales was Edgar Griffin - the father of BNP leader Nick Griffin. Edgar later said the reason he was not a…
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