Me Thinks They Protest Too Much!

There is an old adage in politics that you never believe anything until it is denied.

That being the case the Tories have gone to great lengths this week to try to rubbish and deny the claims made by David Miliband last week about the new rabid right wing grouping the Tory MEP's sit with in the European Parliament.

They even had the Leader of the Polish MEP's and Leader of the overall new Grouping Michal Kaminski at their Conference in Manchester this week.

Mr Kaminski defended his decision to oppose a National Apology for the Massacre of Jews by Poles in the North Eastern town of Jewabne in 1941. He said he thought it unfair to compare it to a Nazi crime. He tried to muddy the waters by accusing the whole "Jewish Nation" of collaborating with the Soviet Union against Poland! He called, bizarrely, on all Jews to apologise for that.

There was more confusion at the Tory Conference over the rght wing Latvian Leader, Roberts Zile, yes he who revels in the Waffen SS, particularly after Party Chairman Eric Pickles had made his "they were only following orders" pronouncement last week.

In this weeks Jewish Chronicle, not noted for its left wing leaning, they, in the guise of Martin Bright (seem to be a lot of them about too) warn the Tory Party to look very closely at what Kaminski has said as they don't appear to have done the necessary due diligence on either Kaminski or Ziles. Bright goes on to say that "just labelling concerns raised by Labour as smears is not good enough".

Meanwhile back on the campaign trail in Borehamwood North my Tory opponent, Rabbi Alan Plancey has been strangely quiet.