Posted on 06/03/2013 8:35:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Euroskeptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in the European Parliament has expelled Mario Borghezio, an Italian from the Lega Nord, for racist comments he made about Italy’s center-left minister for integration, Congolese-born Cecile Kyenge. …
Nigel Farage, a UK MEP who is the group’s co-chair, said that he had threatened to take UKIP out of the group unless it expelled Borghezio.
Farage described Borghezio's comments as “repugnant”. …
(Excerpt) Read more at europeanvoice.com ...
I found an article that quotes the offensive words:
This is a bonga bonga government. It seems to me she’d be a great housekeeper, but not a government minister.
FWIW
Italian-language sites quote the phrase “Una scelta del cazzo”, which is far more coarse.
Coarse indeed (if I can trust Google Translator). I’d like to see an English translation of his complete remarks, but my brief search yesterday failed to uncover one.
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