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OPINION:NAZIS, NAZIS everywhere. Last month this column reported on how US president Barack Obama was being painted as being the very worst kind of right- wing thug – by, well, actual right-wing thugs. It may come as a surprise to discover that the other great neo-Nazi movement in our midst is the European Union, writes JOHN GIBBONS

This disclosure comes courtesy of an anti-Lisbon freesheet called Sovereign Independent, picked up in a convenience shop in Dún Laoghaire. The (unnamed) organisation behind it warns that EU flags are “popping up like swastikas”. Elsewhere, we read: “Some might scoff at a future EU dictator in the same way that the Germans scoffed at a Nazi Germany in the 1920s.”