It looks like the european peoples party, the previous home of the british conservatives, are becoming distinctly uncomfortable at having to defend Hungary's Fiduz party of recent fame:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...740400,00.html

remember the narrative that the ECR would be a home for fruitcakes, and the Tories were daft to leave the EPP given that it was the home for sanitised and family-friendly right-wing politics................?

it was a daft then, and only exposed even more so as a daft idea today.

p.s. the ECR has not collapsed in anarchy for over 18 months now, whodathunkit!