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

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.

Wondered what 'RA podcast meant.

lol

which one of these is the pirate party of uk?

Election show on Beeb Two now!

They've just left Jeremy Vine with a map on the floor and a pie-chart on the wall... he is walking in the sea.

UKIP projected to be tying for first with Labour in HULL. Fuuuuck.

Should have made him do it this morning style, on a floating map.

Exit polls say the pirate party have won a seat.

and the sinn fein vote?

Surprised you haven't tried to pin it on a Celtic fan, tbh.

For some reason, I am slightly amazed that Danny Finkelstein has the voice of a grown-up man.

so they do the vote on thursday, announce on sunday, but can't count before then? you gotta fuckin love europe.

Eric Pickles is a Loathsome slug.

It's because different countries have elections on different days. We have ours on Thursdays (same as all our other elections), other countries have theirs on Sundays (e.g. Italy, same as their general elections). Theoretically announcing the result from one country before having the poll in another could influence the result there. Also, you can hardly involved thousands of people in counting millions of votes and expect the result to be hushed up for three days.
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Two results and no great shakes so far.

So Labour are losing votes to BNP and Greens and the Tories are not getting them? Come the general election what will happen to those votes? Interesting times.

It will be interesting, are people going to vote tactically when it gets down to constituency level, either to turf out labour or to block the BNP. This weekend feels like it is much worse for the LDs than for labour. I feel like they are going to loose a bunch of seats in the south west and possibly in scotland (although we won't know about that yet).

I keep looking up at Newsnight Scotland and seeing Tories winning stuff. This is giving me proper fear.

Edinburgh could be true blue next year.

Did you think somehow Scotland would be immune to the Rise Of The Right?

Is there anywhere that is publishing the council level vote tallies?

The local news websites are (or at least they are here in Leicestershire) - very depressing reading.

jesus, over 100,000 votes for the bnp in wherever this is, west riding or something.

yorkshire

Fucking cunt bastards

Ned, no, I didn't, but it's the sheer volume of it that's thrown me.

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