Wednesday 17 June 2009
No "bloody nose" for the opposition?
I have to say that I was wildly disappointed by the results of the recent British Euro elections. With the all-party corruption scandal fresh in voters minds, the electorate went to the polls. A bloody nose for the Labour Party was certainly no surprise. But the complete absence of a bloody nose for the snouts-in-the-trough opposition parties really showed a lack of political savvy on the part of the voter. While "minor parties" certainly did better than last time (especially UKIP), the fact that they didn't absolutely wipe the floor with the "big three" corrupt parties is pathetic. Looks like the public will have to learn the hard way.
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I think that the presence of so many UKIP members amongst British representation at the rubber stamp parliament is a hopeful thing, and all the Big 3 were way down.
Party loyalty runs very deep - undeserved as it certainly is at present.
I think it's partly to do with the fact that campaigning was actually pretty half-hearted in this campaign. Just a leaflet drop, and not even from all the parties. Plus one or two billboard posters from UKIP that I know of in Greater Manchester, and one BNP poster. The BNP obviously got a lot of free publicity from the establishment media and parties, whereas UKIP were the obvious home for non-fruitcake anti-EU voters. On the roughly pro-EU side, people probably tended to vote for their traditional "brands". It just goes to show, it's a waste of time for the smaller, less well-known parties to stand in the euros unless they've got the resources to mount a proper campaign.
It just goes to show, it's a waste of time for the smaller, less well-known parties to stand in the euros unless they've got the resources to mount a proper campaign.
Not so.
I'm true blue but I voted UKIP in the Euros and always will until the Tories campaign on a membership referendum recommending withdrawal.
That'll be for a long time then.
UKIP's vote actually fell and their percentage vote only went up by 0.5%.
That may have something to do with former UKIP MEP Ashley Mote having served a prison term for housing benefit fraud and Tom Wise, former UKIP MEP, and his researcher currently awaiting trial for fraud and money laundering in relation to their allowances.
Of course Nigel Farage boasting about his £2m in allownaces didn't help UKIP's cause.
They are just a few of the reasons I couldn't bring myself to vote UKIP.
one has to wonder what it will take for people to stop voting for the traitorous parties. I want labour crushed to extinction. and i want the conservatives to bring us out of the EU. i don't see either of these wishes being granted to me.
john in cheshire
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