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Colonel Panik2/10/2009 3:19:37 pm PST

UK slides further into Dhimmitude: Geert Wilders banned from entering UK

Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ movie Fitna has not only been banned by the UK parliament but the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party himself will not be welcome in the UK. This ruling by Home Affairs secretary David Milliband has deeply angered the Dutch.

Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen has lodged formal objections with the British embassy in The Hague and with his British counterpart over the unprecedented barring of an EU-parliamentarian by another EU country.
Verhagen told his UK colleague on Tuesday that the Dutch cabinet was ‘very unhappy’ about their shock decision to ban a parliamentarian from another EU- country, his ministerial spokesman said. Verhagen has lodged formal objections with Milliband and the UK ambassador in The Hague.

This move is unprecedented in European politics - to ban a citizen from another EU country who has no criminal record, and who moreover is a leader of a growing Dutch political party, has never happened before.