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European Parliament 2019 Elections |OT| Electing the Unelected and Unelectable Since 1979
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They became the same shit they say are against.
IVA at 25%, here we go!
Someone tell the SNP that MEPs are assigned proportionally, not on a town by town basis.
What? But I was just shown that more people voted for Remain parties than hard brexiters?
Meanwhile in the rUK... Brexit Party.
Well... yeah, we know this.
It's still better than seeing your councils all vote TBP in #1.
I'm sorry, but how do you define the "grass roots"? I agree they're in a rock and a hard space for a lot of reasons, but Labour voters were fairly overwhelmingly remain, even if they're not quite as Remain as their MPs are.
I'm gonna go and say it. The EU didn't fuck Italy. That this dirtbag is still around says it all.
Italy fucked Italy.
I know, but the SNP making a graphic for each "win" is cringey
That is the same here in Belgium. Many are not real Vlaams Belang supporters but are angry. And they are in fear of a couple of situations (migration and how to pay for it if the native people have been going backward, inequality rich poor, working longer and such, but migration and everything getting more expensive is one of the most important things). Europe must look real hard on immigration because voters are getting more and more extreme, either extreme left or extreme right.
Can he not go to prison or something. I despair for humanity voting this way.
"Please don't celebrate how happy you are your councils aren't going far-right/No deal Brexit, it's cringe".
Not really, we have just had the leader of Plaid Cymru basically lying about the voting numbers and declaring Wales now a majority remain country!
(Brexit won in Wales by a country mile, getting votes from grassroots labour voters in the south)
No. Austerity almost destroyed it. 13 quarters of recession with Monti. People said they did to reduce the debt/gdp but increased a lot. Internal demand killed, bank system almost collapsed with bail in disaster, unemployement rate over 12% ( youth over 20% ).
Berlusconi did way less damage than Monti and EU rules.
So is Westminster going to continue to ignore the will of Scotland.
Scotland is a European country and in no way be dragged out of the EU against its will.
Scotland is a European country and in no way be dragged out of the EU against its will.
What the hell :(
I'm just happy we had an amazing election in Denmark (in my opinion obviously...)
Anti-EU parties went from 5 to 2 seats. Our main nationalist "far-right" party got obliterated, going from 27% to 11% - Thank you Farage!
Actually, somewhat the opposite. Rise of far-right in some countries. But The Brexit Farce seems to have tempered the far-right a bit in other countries.
For years, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats have 'ruled' over Europe. These last couple of years we've been seeing more liberal prime ministers join the European Council (e.g. Rutte & Macron), where all heads of state make the decisions and now the European Parliament is more diverse than ever too. Where the Social democrats (S&D) and Christian democrats (EPP) had a majority together in previous years, now they need another party (probably Greens or Liberals) to get a majority.
Winners this election: Liberals, Greens and right wing populists. But, the eurocritics, populists and extreme-right are divided into different parties. Most notable one is the coalition of Salvini (Italy's vice-prime minister) and Marine Le Pen (Leader of the Front National in France).
So overall, a more diverse and interesting European Parliament. But there is so many more to talk about in this election, due to Brexit, Hungary and Romania for example. European politics can be fun. ;)
I mean, yes? Even the Brexit party aren't sinking to celebrating how each individual town voted.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for angry people who vote for racist xenophobic parties. There are other options.
But given the state of the UK it's easier to be happy avoiding your country going far-right?
It's a great enjoyment for any remain Scottish voter.
Sorry it rustles your jimmies and makes you feel cringe.
What the hell happened with the Social Democrats in Czech? Do we have a report on this? What an immense shift to the right.
Timmermans and his S&D are losing more seats by the hour. Bad news in Croatia, Czech and the UK.
Well, at least Italy wasn't as bad as expected.
Well, at least Italy wasn't as bad as expected.
Abstention here in Portugal was 70%, I'm hugely disappointed with my people. Yes, politics are mostly the same year after year, yes they focused on debating the national issues and couldn't look at the bigger picture and focus in Europe and its current challenges, yes the media are to blame, but f-you if you spend the year complaining but then don't take a few minutes to vote. We just left a dictatorship 45 years ago, a little more than 100 years ago women couldn't vote. It drives me mad.
It's part of the uk. If the uk leave the EU Scotland goes too.
If Scotland THEN decide to leave the UK, Scotland can then apply to join the EU and be in the Euro zone.
What Scotland cannot do is remain in the EU and only England leave.
That is how the results are announced. It's done by constituency. Why would they not announce it? "Sinking" lol
Farage leads the only clear Hard Brexit party, and since the UK is still divided, he was obviously getting a big score.
In France, it's more complicated. On top of the usual immigration/etc issues for multiple voters, Le Pen is used as a protest vote against Macron, and basically doing the National Election rematch from two years ago. She lost 2 seats compared to the previous European Election.
So the only solution is give Scotland another referendum as soon as possible. Its ridiculous to think Scotland should not be having an independence referendum when so much has changed since the last one.
That deal Theresa May come up with had no reference to Scotland at all. No matter how many times Scotland has said they are reliant on freedom movement and singles market access.
Scotland cannot allow there economy to to be ruined due to the mistakes of England.
Again, it's not true that Labour voters were overwhelmingly remain anywhere outside of London. "Grass roots" in Labour terms will generally mean former industrial and manufacturing heartlands where the majority of Labour voters would be working class families who have traditionally always voted Labour.
Such as, which party set's immigration so high on the bill?
Because they're a politcal party, not a local returning officer? Winning towns is meaningless.
Ok so Le Pen's win isn't as catastrophic as I thought then? I hate seeing Info Wars idiots being happy about her win, ugh
Hey it's bad news in England and Wales, we're dancing in the streets here.
Some of the stuff I'm reading is great. Just checked FollowFollow and they're spinning it (somehow) as a massive win for Farage and proof that the desire for independence is dead
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Pulled out because of taking away remain votes. Interestingly its not the same person https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/26/lord-buckethead-double-trouble-theresa-may