Conservative MEP Roger Helmer has today announced that he is quitting his seat in the European Parliament at the end of this year. Citing disillusionment with the direction of the party, Brussels is set to lose one of its most off message sons. To commemorate his passing, Scrapbook thought a countdown of his top “so right [...]
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Tory MEP Roger Helmer calls for rioters to be “shot on sight”
Conservative MEP Roger Helmer is not known for a measured, thoughtful approach to public policy, but with his response to the London riots he has really excelled himself. In a tweet this morning, the mustachioed climate change denier sent a message to the Government’s emergency cabinet meeting saying rioters should be summarily executed: Helmer’s comments were [...]
Every ash cloud has a silver lining for Cameron
With Messrs Hannan, Helmer and their friends preaching the “collective flight from reality” of climate change, the “60 year mistake” of the NHS and equivocating on gay rights, David Cameron may be praying the volcanic ash cloud remains – over Aéroport de Strasbourg and Bruxelles-National, at least: Cameron’s MEPs are his political equivalent of the [...]
Star of Tory climate change conference was paid to deny effects of passive smoking
Left Foot Forward reported today that Tory MEP Roger Helmer is organising a “climate change sceptics’ conference” in Brussels. The list of speakers is a Who’s Who of climate change denial – people with an axe to grind in one hand and a distinct lack of peer-reviewed science in the other. But one name on the [...]
David Cameron's new [cough] green Tories
When will Dave realise it takes a bit more than a windmill on the side of your house and some ‘bags for life’ in the cupboard? Full story at Left Foot Forward.
