Libertas undecided over fielding MEP candidates

LIBERTAS leader Declan Ganley said he would need 30 MEPs in the European Parliament to make an impact, but refused to say if he would field candidates in next June’s elections.

Around 20 — mostly eurosceptic members — of the Parliament’s 785 MEPs turned up to hear Mr Ganley in Brussels yesterday, where he was billed as the leader of Ireland’s successful anti-Lisbon campaign.

They included xenophobics from Jean Marie Le Pen’s national front, the Belgian anti-immigration party Vlaams Belang, the right-wing Polish party The League of Polish Families, and British MEPs including United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP) MEP Godfrey Bloom who said women should be confined to the kitchen. It was hosted by Tory Dan Hannan, expelled from the European People’s Party for likening the German president of the Parliament to a Nazi.