European Elections 2019
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Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
Seriously, we need to return pro-EU candidates. We can't tolerate UKIP having a stronghold on MEPs any more, and the EU would be forgiven for losing patience with the UK if we sent them more than a handful, at most. If we're to send a pro-Remain message, to the guvmint and to the EU, that's how we do it. So people need to get out and vote for pro-EU candidates, whomever they may be.
Marchbanks
Hat and Beard member
The Tory and Labour EU election manifestos will make for interesting reading.
SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
The problem I see is candidate selection. For anything meaningful to come out you would ideally have Leave candidates running against Remain without dilution. I certainly hope a lot of effort goes in to actually participating this time and ensuring Farage and other wreckers are not elected to reperesent us, it soon happens when Farage stands for Parliament.
ff1d1l
pfm Member
Don't forget your vote counts in this, so use it wisely.
Personally I'd only vote for a labour candidate that was passionately and idealogically for remain. The labour manifesto is likely to be a fudge and not worth the paper its written on.
I'll be supporting Plaid as their voting record in the HOC speaks for itself.
Personally I'd only vote for a labour candidate that was passionately and idealogically for remain. The labour manifesto is likely to be a fudge and not worth the paper its written on.
I'll be supporting Plaid as their voting record in the HOC speaks for itself.
MVV
pfm Member
To my shame I and most people have ignored these in the past and that is partly why we are in this mess. This time not only will I vote but I will (as I did in the GE) use my friends and family social media to get the young vote out. It's dead easy to make a massive impact. I just posted on the family facebook and instagram saying "come on kids this is your chance, contact all your mates and get them to contact their mates. Get out and vote; lets stuff these UKIP twats!"
Nero
Re: Tired
Can someone point me to a simple description of how the EU elections work? It's some kind of PR, based on the share of the vote? I've always wondered how gobshites like Farage can get in, while they thankfully have no Commons members.
Is it possible to vote tactically with a PR system?
Is it possible to vote tactically with a PR system?
MVV
pfm Member
Because almost no one votes in the EU elections. So the nutters propelled by nutterdrive are the only ones who got off their arses and voted. That is what must and will change this time.
bobovox
pfm Member
It's a closed party list PR system (NI excluded) so you vote by party.
Full explainer on the voting system here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/en/your-meps/european_elections/the_voting_system.html
Full explainer on the voting system here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/en/your-meps/european_elections/the_voting_system.html
Marchbanks
Hat and Beard member
No, on Boris’ throat.
I can dream.
MVV
pfm Member
People forget but at the time of the referendum the young were not politicised. Do you remember, people were saying they are only interested in their phones and facebook? That has changed. The GE illustrated that with queues at polling stations in university towns. That can and will be harnessed again.
Marchbanks
Hat and Beard member
It’s difficult for a remainer in England to find a party to vote for in these elections that will send an unequivocal anti-Brexit message that cannot be ignored. Brexit forces in parliament will explain away support for all of them. Lib Dems? Protest vote, The People are fed up with the main parties dilly-dallying. Greens? Tree huggers. TIG? Anti-Corbyn vote.
I’d like to see Labour take the opportunity to announce a shift in policy or some kind of statement of intent, but I’m not expecting it.
I’d like to see Labour take the opportunity to announce a shift in policy or some kind of statement of intent, but I’m not expecting it.
MVV
pfm Member
Well as the conservatives and UKIP are now one and the same. Anyone else who might win the seat will do for me.
Nero
Re: Tired
I don't use the word 'B@ris'. It lends him a safe jocularity which is undeserved
Marchbanks
Hat and Beard member
I couldn’t vote Labour in an EU election unless they adopted a remain position.
I take your point, but I couldn’t think of another word that didn’t lead to ambiguity. And ‘On the former Foreign Secretary and inveterate liar’s throat’ was rather long. And didn’t narrow it down very much, either.