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

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.

Astonished and depressed by the BNP "success", for fuck's sake what is is happening to this country?

THIS GUY IS A TEACHER?!?

I feel a bit sick. I really didn't think they'd make the top five in any constituency and hence unlikely to snag a seat. Jesus.

I am seriously up for organising a mass protest outside the offices of The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Express where everyone waves massive banners going 'THIS IS YOUR FAULT YOU CUNTS'.

His guff on tv just then was woeful. What a fucking prick, apparently former NF as well.

Well, yeh, apart from the fact it isn't or anything. Still, delighted anyone still thinks the press is that powerful.

Mother fuck, the lack of an xpost warning on iPhone ILX is a pain in the arse.

I don't even know what to say or think. Fuck. I want to cry.

Fucking hell, conservatives largest party in wales.

can yorkshire just fucking fall into the north sea

seriously WOULD NOT MISS ANY OF YOU AND YOUR BNP-VOTING CUNTING POPULATION. fuck off. secede. go back where you came from ie the fucking mud at the bottom of the ocean. cunts.

Umm. Sorry, people are surprised by this?

The only good thing to come from this (eternal optimist that I am) is that the rest of the country might wake up to the fact the festering sore of small-minded racism is a really fucking big problem and can't just be ignored. The BNP might be chumps but we fail to take them seriously at our peril ... as, darkly, this seems to be proving. Christ.

God Toynbee is insufferable right now.

why don't we have any decent political assassins around any more??? if the 60s could produce someone to murder jfk why can't this decade get it together to take nick griffin out

Krishan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News: "people get the politicians they deserve.....maybe all the fuckwits who say they're not interested in politics will sit up"

I knew it was all going a bit wrong, but having it there in black and white, or Tory fucking blue, it's just awful, like a negative photo of that night in 1997 when we all thought everything was going to be OK again. I thought the threat of this might make people cast their minds back further than a couple of years, but no, people are cnuts.

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