Gerard Batten - Revision history

Melissa Jones: /* Meeting with EDL donor and strategist */

2015-12-29T15:38:12Z

Meeting with EDL donor and strategist

Melissa Jones: /* SIOE */

2015-12-29T15:36:58Z

SIOE

Hilary Aked: /* CounterJihad connections */

2015-12-16T19:04:27Z

CounterJihad connections

Hilary Aked: /* CounterJihad connections */

2015-12-16T19:03:10Z

CounterJihad connections

Hilary Aked: /* On immigration */

2015-02-24T12:05:05Z

On immigration

Hilary Aked: /* Far-right friends */

2015-02-24T12:04:42Z

Far-right friends

Hilary Aked: /* =On immigration */

2015-02-24T12:01:12Z

=On immigration

Hilary Aked: /* Personal information */

2015-02-24T12:00:54Z

Personal information

Hilary Aked: /* Articles */

2015-02-24T11:53:38Z

Articles

Hilary Aked: /* Praise and support for Geert Wilders */

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Praise and support for Geert Wilders

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 In March 2011, an article by anti-fascist organisation Searchlight noted that [[Alan Ayling]] (aka Alan Lake), then a donor to and strategist for the [[English Defence League]] (EDL), had boasted in an interview with the [[Daily Star]], a British tabloid newspaper, of links to Gerard Batten.<ref>Nick Lowles, [http://web.archive.org/web/20110425042113/http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=344 Puppet master], Searchlight, March 2011, accessed via the Web Archive 24 February 2015</ref>
-As a result, on 7 March 2011, Batten appears to have issued a statement in which he admitted meeting Lake in autumn 2010, knowing he was associated with the [[EDL]]. The statement was tweeted by former [[UKIP]] aide Jasna Badzak.<ref name="Badzak">[https://twitter.com/JasnaBadzak/status/261242944772767745/photo/1 Final tweet tonight-#UKIP MEP Spokesman admits meeting #EDL deputy Lake,connected to Breivik,questioned by Norwaypolice], Twitter, 24 October 2012, accessed 24 February 2015</ref> In it, Batten wrote:
+As a result, on 7 March 2011, Batten appears to have issued a statement in which he admitted meeting Lake in autumn 2010, knowing he was associated with the [[EDL]]. The statement was tweeted by former [[UKIP]] aide J[[asna Badzak]].<ref name="Badzak">[https://twitter.com/JasnaBadzak/status/261242944772767745/photo/1 Final tweet tonight-#UKIP MEP Spokesman admits meeting #EDL deputy Lake,connected to Breivik,questioned by Norwaypolice], Twitter, 24 October 2012, accessed 24 February 2015</ref> In it, Batten wrote:
 ::Being aware of the phenomenon of the EDL, I wished to establish my own independent assessment of them. I decided therefore, on my own initiative, to meet with Mr Lake. We met in full public view in a cafe in Liverpool St Station for about an hour or more.

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 ::In his one-minute speech during Strasbourg plenary, Gerard Batten (UK, IN/DEM) told how [[Alexander Litvinenko]], a former Lieutenant Colonel in the [[FSB]], the successor to the [[KGB]], and currently living under political asylum in the UK, was informed by [[FSB]] deputy chief, General [[Anatole Trofimov]] of the high amount of communist activity operating in Italy. With reference to the [[KGB]], Litvinenko was told, “[[Romano Prodi]] is our man there”.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060524063146/http://www.eureporter.co.uk/showarticle.php?newsid=2218 Prodi accused of being former Soviet agent], EU Reporter, 3 April 2006, via the Internet Archive.</ref>
-===SIOE===
+===Stop Islamisation of Europe demo petition===
-On September 11 2007, Batten accepted a petition from [[Anders Gravers]] protesting a ban on a Brussels demonstration by [[Stop Islamisation of Europe]].<ref>Scores arrested in anti-Islam protest in Belgium, Agence France Presse, 11 September 2007.</ref>
+On September 11 2007, Batten accepted a petition from [[Anders Gravers]] protesting a ban on a Brussels demonstration by [[Stop Islamisation of Europe]] (SIOE).<ref>Scores arrested in anti-Islam protest in Belgium, ''Agence France Presse'', 11 September 2007.</ref>
 ===Counterjihad Europa===

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 ==='Charter of Muslim Understanding'===
-In 2014 it emerged that Batten had written the forward for the 2006 'Proposed Charter of Muslim Understanding' authored by former Muslim convert to Christianity and counterjihad activist [[Sam Solomon]]. According to anti-Islamophobia monitoring group TellMAMA, he had commissioned Solomon to write it and orginally launched it in Strasbourg in December 2006.<ref>Steven Rose [http://tellmamauk.org/sam-solomon-christian-concern-gerard-batten-steven-rose/ Sam Solomon, Christian Concern and Gerard Batten by Steven Rose], TellMAMA, 16 May 2014, accessed 24 February 2015</ref>
+[[File:Battencharter.png||350px|thumb|right|The end of Batten's foreword to the proposed 'Charter of Muslim Understanding' which called for special denunciations of violence from Muslims]]
 The document suggested Muslims ought to sign a a five-point declaration including a rejection of violence.<ref name="GdnCharter">Rowena Mason, [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/04/ukip-mep-gerard-batten-muslims-sign-charter-rejecting-violence Ukip MEP says British Muslims should sign charter rejecting violence], The Guardian, 4 February 2015</ref> The Tory MP [[Robert Halfon]] called the call 'frightening' and 'sinister', comparing the proposal to a first step towards making Muslims wear 'a yellow star', as Jews were made to in Nazi Germany.<ref>Rowena Mason, [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/05/tory-mp-ukip-muslim-code-conduct-frightening-halfon-batten Tory MP says Ukip politician's call for Muslim code of conduct is frightening], The Guardian, 5 February 2014</ref>

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 ==CounterJihad connections==
 ===Prodi allegation===
 Batten raised allegations that [[Romano Prodi]] was a [[KGB]] agent during the 2006 Italian election campaign, at a time when Prodi was the front--runner, according to the ''EU Reporter'':

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 ==Views==
 ===On immigration===
-In 2010 Batten wrote a paper for [[UKIP]] entitled 'Immigration - Action Overdue!', a lengthy document outlining his thoughts at length on the effect of immigration on Britain. It included the claims that due to what he referred to as 'white flight' many parts of Britain are 'more like enclaves of Pakistan, Bengal or India than English cities' and stated that 'the English will become a minority in their own land'.
+In 2010 Batten wrote a paper for [[UKIP]] entitled 'Immigration - Action Overdue!', a lengthy document outlining his thoughts at length on the effect of immigration on Britain. It included the claims that due to what he referred to as 'white flight' many parts of Britain are 'more like enclaves of Pakistan, Bengal or India than English cities' and stated that 'the English will become a minority in their own land'.<ref name="AsaB"/>
 ==Personal information==

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 ===Far-right friends===
-Ex-[[UKIP]] MEP Nikki Sinclaire has claimed that Batten has been 'hell-bent on attacking Muslims', is 'incredibly paranoid' and 'talks about the gradual takeover by the Muslims of Great Britain and sharia law'. She has also alleged that he is 'very good friends' with far-right European politicians like Dutch MP [[Geert Wilders]] and members of Belgium's [[Vlaams Belang]]. According to the Huffington Post, she stated 'I often see him in the parliament with those MEPs.'<ref>Asa Bennett, [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/21/gerard-batten-ukip_n_5350598.html Meet Gerard Batten, The UKIP MEP Scare-Mongering About Islam, Immigrants And Bilderberg], Huffington Post, 21 May 2014, accessed 24 February 2015</ref>
+Ex-[[UKIP]] MEP Nikki Sinclaire has claimed that Batten has been 'hell-bent on attacking Muslims', is 'incredibly paranoid' and 'talks about the gradual takeover by the Muslims of Great Britain and sharia law'. She has also alleged that he is 'very good friends' with far-right European politicians like Dutch MP [[Geert Wilders]] and members of Belgium's [[Vlaams Belang]]. According to the Huffington Post, she stated 'I often see him in the parliament with those MEPs.'<ref name="AsaB">Asa Bennett, [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/21/gerard-batten-ukip_n_5350598.html Meet Gerard Batten, The UKIP MEP Scare-Mongering About Islam, Immigrants And Bilderberg], Huffington Post, 21 May 2014, accessed 24 February 2015</ref>
 ===Meeting with EDL donor and strategist===

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	In 2010, [[Christian Concern]]'s [[Paul Diamond]] had defended Batten's wife in court in a case over a TV license.<ref>[http://www.christianconcern.com/our-concerns/media/mep-criticises-bbc-politically-biased-corporation MEP criticises BBC as a 'politically biased' corporation], Christian Concern, 11 November 2012, accessed 24 February 2015</ref>		In 2010, [[Christian Concern]]'s [[Paul Diamond]] had defended Batten's wife in court in a case over a TV license.<ref>[http://www.christianconcern.com/our-concerns/media/mep-criticises-bbc-politically-biased-corporation MEP criticises BBC as a 'politically biased' corporation], Christian Concern, 11 November 2012, accessed 24 February 2015</ref>
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		+	==Views==
		+	===On immigration==
		+	In 2010 Batten wrote a paper for [[UKIP]] entitled 'Immigration - Action Overdue!', a lengthy document outlining his thoughts at length on the effect of immigration on Britain. It included the claims that due to what he referred to as 'white flight' many parts of Britain are 'more like enclaves of Pakistan, Bengal or India than English cities' and stated that 'the English will become a minority in their own land'.

	==Personal information==		==Personal information==

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 *Rowena Mason, [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/04/ukip-mep-gerard-batten-muslims-sign-charter-rejecting-violence Ukip MEP says British Muslims should sign charter rejecting violence], theguardian.com, 4 February 2014.
 *Alex Stevenson, [http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2014/02/05/disgust-in-westminster-as-ukip-mep-stands-by-muslim-charter Disgust in Westminster as Ukip MEP stands by Muslim charter], politics.co.uk, 5 February 2014.
-*Asa Bennett, [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/21/gerard-batten-ukip_n_5350598.html Meet Gerard Batten, The UKIP MEP Scare-Mongering About Islam, Immigrants And Bilderberg], Huffington Post, 21 May 2014, accessed 24 february 2015</ref>
+*Asa Bennett, [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/21/gerard-batten-ukip_n_5350598.html Meet Gerard Batten, The UKIP MEP Scare-Mongering About Islam, Immigrants And Bilderberg], Huffington Post, 21 May 2014.
 ==Notes==

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 In 2009, Batten wrote an article for the [[Freedom Association]] in which he called WIlders 'brave man trying to defend western civilisation in the face of
 its own loss of the most basic instinct of self-preservation.'<ref>Gerard Batten, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120813035716/http://www.gerardbattenmep.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/islamistthreat09.pdf The Islamist threat to freedom],  Freedom Today, February 2009, accessed via the Web Archive 24 February 2015</ref>
 ===Meeting with EDL donor and strategist===