European Elections

[TheOstrich]

Well, we had our Notices of Postal Voting about a week and a half ago, and today our Postal Voting packs arrived, along with election flyers from the Tories and the Brexit Party.

It's quite interesting. The Tory flyer focuses on T. May ("working tirelessly") and takes a swipe at Nigel Frage personally ("standing for personal gain …").
In contrast, the Brexit Party leaflet totally ignores T. May, and the only mention of the Conservatives is in a short quote from one Annunziata Rees-Mogg of this Ilk! The Brexit Party flyer looks slightly more professional and even has one o' they Q-Code app thingydoodles you can scan.

I would never vote for Gerald Batten's beyond-the-pale UKIP, and indeed, looking at their candidate list, we have that potential ha-ha rapist just a joke innit Carl Benjamin standing in our region. I sincerely hope they lose whatever deposits they have going, if that's what happens in a European Election.

No, who we do have standing for Farage's mob - and she'll certainly get my vote - is Ann Noreen Widdecombe! Who can ever forget SCD? FAB - u - LOUS!!

[Workingman]

Oh dear! Ann Widdecombe. Well, never mind.

Thankfully we do not have such life forms to vote for up here. On t'other hand we do have our own bunch of fruit-loops looking for votes: Brexit; Conservative; English Democrats; Labour; Yorkshire Party and UKIP.

So that leaves ChangeUK, Green or Lib Dem.

Decisions, decisions.

[Kaz]

Ann Widdecombe totally rubbished the aims of the WASPI campaign, in a radio interview, and brushed aside the genuine cases of hardship that have been bought about by the sudden increase of 6 years in SPA for late 1950's born women. Horrible woman

[saundra]

Nobody gets my vote iv binned it

[JoM]

We had our cards a couple of weeks ago, not sure who's standing in this area though as we haven't had anything through the door yet.

[Workingman]

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/europ ... full-list/

Lists of candidates for all areas.

Scroll down Jo.

[JoM]

Yes, I found that just after I posted.

Frank, you have the Yorkshire Party??

[Workingman]

It is a pro devolution for Yorkshire party, Jo.

It is centrist by nature and it does have some support, but as far as the Euro elections are concerned it is irrelevant.

[Workingman]

I am reading that one poll puts Farage on 34% with Lab on 21%, LD on 12% and Cons on 11%.

Not that it makes a blind bit of difference as with no MPs he cannot influence Brexit one jot.

However, the same poll says that in a GE he would be only 1% behind the Cons. That should get him 136 MPs, but under FPTP it will mean he only gets a handful - at most.

Another poll puts the Cons fighting for third place with the LDs in a GE. It might be that in the next one the majority of us could be voting FOR a party rather than being sheep or voting AGAINST just to keep the others out.

Proper PR anyone?

[cromwell]

Certainly. It shouldn't be beyond the wit of man to devise a system whereby if you get 33% of the vote, you get 33% of the MPs.
It would be much fairer.