Brits - Who are you voting for in the European Elections?

In case you're wondering Jury Team are the Esther Rantzen mob i.e more Tories.

I agonised, and then voted Green.

SNP

I voted Green, and then agonised

I voted Labour with no great enthusiasm, more to do a (very) small part to stop them getting an absolute kicking than anything else. Also to make any BNP/Fringe Nutter Party votes get a smaller share of the overall vote.

we had a party called 'animals count'. considered it but they're probably mental.

Besides, most animals are incapable of counting.

I wonder if anyone voted for this guy? Google knows fuck all about him except this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Robertson

Represent the voter, not any party or special interest sounds as vague as it gets, right enough. Represent ME! (except I didn't vote for you, and you won't be representing anyone)

Worryingly, the BNP's tagline was about stopping Scottish jobs being lost to them pesky furriners, right here where lots of jobs at Hewlett Packard have just been lost to the Czech Republic. Other less objectionable parties also had mutterings about protecting employment in the local/Scottish area, but less explicitly "fuck off foreigners, stealing our jobs" and they were way further down the list for the hard of thinking who just look at stuff and go "oh, that sounds good to me".

The BNP should be forced to change their name so they're right down the bottom of the ballot papers, so that the clowns who might think of voting for them have lost the will to live by the time they get as far as their names at the bottom of the ballot papers, assuming they have an attention span/reading capability which would enable them to get that far in the first place.

ooh it's like voting all over again. lib dem w/a heavy sigh.

did NOT enjoy the bnp being the 1st thing i saw when i opened the ballot paper.

SNP. I'm fairly centrist, pro-Scotland tho not nationalistic, despise New Labour and the Tories (well on the latter, I am from Scotland, there's not many of us that don't), don't even know vaguely what the Lib Dems stand for (do they?).

Besides, most animals are incapable of counting.

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yep, girl in the queue made that joek!

The local socialist party, probably. Might go for the communists this time though.

good luck finland

The England and Wales Greens are hardcore Euroskeptic fuckwits, but it's amazing how well they managed to hide it this time. Maybe they've genuinely mellowed a bit and realised that the EU is the best place to achieve their aims. Doubt it though.

Oh, and Labour FTW.

I did wonder about that, but to the Greens' credit they have very progressive views on intellectual propoerty, fwiw.

i voted Bee eN Pee because of their deft sponsoring of the french tennis...

(jokes, comrade)

SNP

Voted Labour because a little bit of me still believes in the party despite the leadership. And may God have mercy on my soul.

Almost wanted to vote for Mr Sad's No Bulls*#t!? Party.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3663/3567810459_f7d119120e.jpg

If only he'd had the guts to leave the 'hi' in. I've looked at his website and still have no clue what on earth he's about (he does win points for this bit on his blog where he points out who London's MEPs are and breaks down how they spend their time - would have been nice for the telly or newspapers to try this instead of yet more 'LOL duck houses' bollocks). I'm guessing he's an unemployed banker with too much time on his hands, or a really stupid Lottery winner.

was reading there that the expected turnout for Scotland is 25%. With 3 of us on this thread voting SNP it's sure to be a landslide!

and grimly makes 4

Didn't Wendy Craig used to be in that?

but the west of scotland will still back labour. Wonder if that will be the case after a few years of tory cunts rule and people realise labour have no chance of winning the next few elections

This video - especially the last ten seconds - is amazing.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

and grimly makes 4

Aye, absolutely. Delighted by this showing!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

BNP 2

Oh look, humorists

Very fucking funny.

I proclaim Grimly Fiendish as Prime Minister Of ILX. Choose your cabinet wisely..

If Cameron sees this poll he will be quaking in his boots

I proclaim Grimly Fiendish as Prime Minister Of ILX. Choose your cabinet wisely..

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 6 June 2009 23:08

tsk. scots mafia running tings as usual.

Amazingly, he is not Scottish.

Grimly, I mean.

i know. but he is honorary scot shurely

Well yes.

unlike scottish born Tony Blair who described himself as English and Supported England.

Did anyone vote Lab/Lib for positive reasons or was it done safely under a veneer of despair?

^^^Me. And my vote went towards the 47 that kept the tories from winning the seat. The only bright spot on an otherwise v. depressing day. Not least of which is the knowledge that 640 people within a mile or so of me voted BNP.

Why are the BNP getting so many votes in your area?

Loving these poll results.

i'm drunk and will put on dignity by deacon blue then somewhere in my heart and put on a kilt or something in honour.

Jim can be Minister of Cargos for Scotland.

BNP 2

Oh look, humorists

I fucking hope so.

I'd assume at least one of the BNP votes was King Boy Pato voting for a joke.

and the sinn fein vote?

g adams lurks

big in to his minimal.

Griffin is hiding under his KKK Weekly SS Gazette Daily Mail Grauniad like a reet ponce.

It is the Guardian probably. Griffin was making a speech whining about the bad press he is getting, poor old diddums.

Presumably the BNP have a policy to stop that happening.

^^ Those chaps prob not about to win two elections.

People need to get inventive here. I'd like to see somebody play hugely amplified farting noises next time he tries to speak in public.

They shouldn't stop until he actually cries in public, looks like they got close here

I'm all for a few eggs being thrown but not under any illusion that he will try and use this to his advantage. However the thought of seeing him like this...

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/nick-griffin-415x220.jpg

VS.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00570/pohle_1_570900a.jpg

...makes me inclined to encourage the egg throwers.

Get somebody to dress as a Klansman and follow him around all day.

Same suit, same tie. Hopefully we won't see him for a week while that lot's in the cleaners.

Andrew Brons can loan him one of his old Nazi uniforms

... but I imagine only on condition that he watches him to change into it

Well, I guess we can tell newspapers sympathies tomorrow by whether they run the 'OMG, affront to democracy! Innocent fascist got egged' line, or the 'LOL, look at this' line.

it would be awesome if Griffin became "that guy who gets egged every time he appears in public"

Am spreading this idea everywhere I can think of. Britain, we can do this.

Am going to start carrying a dozen large free-range in my coat pocket from now on, just in case.

In fact, there's surely a market for a tailor-made egg bandolier for this purpose?

Just heard about the Euro election results for Brighton. The Greens got 20,000 votes (a third of all votes cast) - 6,000 more than the Tories and Labour was third, quite some way behind that. Dunno how this would translate to a GE vote, but pretty O_O all the same.

More like Brongton.

Well, I guess we can tell newspapers sympathies tomorrow by whether they run the 'OMG, affront to democracy! Innocent fascist got egged' line, or the 'LOL, look at this' line.

― dowd, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:33 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not so. All the paps had the "lol" angle, but the letters page... (which is where you truly get the newspapers' sympathies: Hey, they get to pick the letters for publication with a "We didn't say it, he did" shrug)

More like Brongton.

Least it's not Bronston, Yorkie folks.

Er, trust me: that is not how newspaper letters pages work at all. Indeed, quite often the letters chosen will be wildly at odds with the paper's editorial stance, in order to foster debate.

If you want to know what a paper thinks, it's astonishingly simple: read the leader column.

I trust you, grimly...

Greens also won Norwich and Oxford.

A handy sortable list.

(May have been posted upthread, sorry).

Hey good list. Tories got 51% of the vote in Gibraltar. Do they let the monkeys vote or something?

All the paps had the "lol" angle

Star had the inevitable "The Yolk's On You"

Has anybody asked Nick Griffin what he thinks of all these Gurkhas coming over here, stealing our women and sleeping with our jobs?

Didn't he say they were mercenaries and don't deserve anything?

nah that was Gordon Brown

lol

I remember posting something along the lines of "they say "Labour want to allow half a million Gurkhas to settle here"" a short while ago.

All the paps had the "lol" angle

Mentioned this on another thread already but the Express won with its front page photo caption of "Griffin was spattered with egg yolk. The BNP only accepts whites."

Not sure if it was intentional, though.

Didn't he say they were mercenaries and don't deserve anything?

Quail egg attack by Joanna Lumley is a must

Good luck Doncaster:

http://andys.org.uk/b/2009/06/08/a-whole-lot-of-nothing/

Like a true Englishman, Peter Davies is celebrating his victory with a pint of foaming nut-brown ale in the Dome's Icebreaker Bar.

I would like to make love all night long to BBC Radio Sheffield's Toby Foster for that.

lolz, don't know what this guy was expecting. toby foster runs the comedy night at my local back home. notorious quick-thinking wag.

Wonder if he is up for the craic crack?

http://img37.yfrog.com/img37/4229/65vs.jpg

you laugh, but let me just get you something real quick

look, it's cllr luke 'ming' flangan, shaking up the stuffy image of the west of ireland political scene

http://www.sdgi.ie/images/films/ming.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4oCVcQRd5yg/Si1K3CDoqKI/AAAAAAAAATo/h9_lv2-KsBw/s1600/partly-political-news-flash.jpg

Luke 'Ming' Flanagan is an Irish politician and social campaigner. He began his political career running unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the Galway West constituency in 1997, and went on to contest the Connaught Ulster constituency in the European elections of 1999 and the Longford-Roscommon constituency in the 2002 Dáil election.[1] On none of these occasions did he reach two per cent of the vote.[2]

He was viewed as a joke candidate, shaving his hair and styling his beard in the way of Ming the Merciless from the film Flash Gordon. His posters and other election material featured a cannabis leaf, and legalisation of the drug was one of his main policy platforms. He voiced uncompromising support for radical social and environmental issues, and displayed a knack for using the media, being featured in many newspapers and radio programmes who were attracted by his colourful appearance and strong rhetoric.

In 2001 he hit the headlines when he sent more than 200 cannabis cigarettes to politicians in the Oireachtas, one to each TD and senator, as part of his campaign to have cannabis legalised.[3][4]

He returned to his native Castlerea and contested the 2004 local elections, and was elected to Roscommon County Council,[5] topping the poll and getting elected on the first count, defeating sitting councilors John Murray and Danny Burke.[6] He was re-elected on the first count in June 2009, receiving 16.8% of 1st preference votes in his Castlerea electoral area, and exceeding the quota by 394 votes

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/general/an-open-letter-to-nick-griffin-chairman-of-the-bnp-and-mep-for-north-west-england

zing

classy zing

a lot more effective than swp'rs throwing eggs imo.

Yes, let's get old soldier throwing eggs instead, as long as someone does i'm happy

Will give him another excuse to mouth off on national tv no doubt.

a lot more effective than swp'rs throwing eggs imo.

I mean I expect this will play right into his usual guff about PC GONE MAD while missing the REAL ISSUES of, I don't know, some crap about CHURCHILL.

Not that the letters not a good thing, I just don't think it makes any dent on him or his supporters.

idk, but it does make a dent on potential supporters.

Yes, it'll be like egg off cheap suit for him but might make some of the people who voted for him even more embarrassed about it than they already claim to be

and i think it's a good thing if groups that have the potential to command respect amongst likely recruitment/expansion ground for the bnp come out and directly oppose griffin et al.

exactly

They should definitely have Brons on telly more because he'd give anyone the creeps