Grand Alliance

Daveybloke's cuddly coalition of thugs and cranks in Europe looks set for yet another bit of bother. Michal Kaminski, who was made chair of the European Conservative Reformist Fans of the Latvian Waffen-SS as compensation after one of Daveybloke's own minions ran against him for the vice-presidency of the European parliament, has thrown another hissy-fit and resigned from the booby prize. If he can get three others to defect along with him, Daveybloke's cuddly coalition in Europe could be left with as much parliamentary significance as the British National Party.

Indeed, Kaminski is a right-wing charmer of Griffinian stature: he gave an interview to a far-right journal and lied about it later, criticised the Polish president's apology for a wartime massacre of Jews by Polish collaborators, and has expressed views on homosexuality that would make Chris Graybeing or Richard Drax proud to share a bed-and-breakfast with him. Apparently this is why Daveybloke and his Minister for Wogs, Frogs and Huns, Willem den Haag, consider Kaminski a more acceptable face of the foreign-born right wing than Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy or even Silvio Berlusconi.