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European Parliament Election Results 2014
Post by Michael Riddell   » Mon May 26, 2014 4:43 pm

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Merkel's disappointed, there's a fecal smell coming from the Élysée Palace in Paris, the Liberal Democrats in the UK are facing disaster and the radical left and right across Europe are making themselves heard.

A European Electoral revolt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27575510

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27575513

France:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-eu-27577964

United Kingdom:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27567744

Spain:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-eu-27579898

Greece:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-25/greece-s-syriza-leading-in-eu-elections-exit-poll-shows.html

Denmark:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/25/danish-peoples-party-triumphant-in-european-elections

and on and on...

As much of an upset as the result is, as far as the European Parliament itself is concerned, the Pro-Europe parties still have a 70% majority. Where all this Euroscepticsm is going to manifest is at a national level. Europe's governing classes ignore their electorates at their peril now.

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Re: European Parliament Election Results 2014
Post by namelessfly   » Tue May 27, 2014 12:36 am

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Re: European Parliament Election Results 2014
Post by biochem   » Tue May 27, 2014 11:52 am

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Europe's governing classes ignore their electorates at their peril now.


It sounds similar, in part, to the effect the tea party is having on the Washington politicians here. Politicians should pay more attention to history. It's happened before. Sure when thing are good, the electorate gets fat and happy and pretty much lets politicians do what they want but when times are hard it's a very different story.
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Re: European Parliament Election Results 2014
Post by Michael Riddell   » Tue May 27, 2014 2:33 pm

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namelessfly wrote:Image
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That would depend on France. If Front National get anywhere near the levers of power there in the next election (2016 I believe), then things could get messy. Not only are they islamaphobic (which has got them votes), they're also anti-Semitic (which also gets them votes - though they insist they aren't now) - the German Finance Minister has already branded them Fascists. Israel would have good reason to be worried, as would all the French of Algerian decent living there.

If France pulls out of the EU, then it's game over for Brussels. No-one will want to be lumbered with the German's being the dominant power.

I doubt it'll lead to armed conflict in Western Europe, but I'd guess that the East would be worried, for obvious reasons.

biochem wrote:It sounds similar, in part, to the effect the tea party is having on the Washington politicians here. Politicians should pay more attention to history. It's happened before. Sure when thing are good, the electorate gets fat and happy and pretty much lets politicians do what they want but when times are hard it's a very different story.


That's the conclusions the politicians in this country seem to have recognised. Finally.

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Re: European Parliament Election Results 2014
Post by biochem   » Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:17 am

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On this side of the pond one of the Republican party leaders (Eric Cantor) just lost his seat in the primary to a challenger from the right. The pundits have been pontificating for the last week. But basically, once he reached leadership status he felt that he was too important to bother paying attention to the little people who elected him and their concerns. :twisted: With that wake up call the rest of the Republicans are paying lots of attention to their constituents!

Now we just need to have the same thing happen to a member of the Democratic leadership. Harry Reid? :twisted:
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Re: European Parliament Election Results 2014
Post by biochem   » Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:39 am

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biochem wrote:On this side of the pond one of the Republican party leaders (Eric Cantor) just lost his seat in the primary to a challenger from the right. The pundits have been pontificating for the last week. But basically, once he reached leadership status he felt that he was too important to bother paying attention to the little people who elected him and their concerns. :twisted: With that wake up call the rest of the Republicans are paying lots of attention to their constituents!

Now we just need to have the same thing happen to a member of the Democratic leadership. Harry Reid? :twisted:


At least some progress in this area. Rep Tierney (D) of Massachusetts lost in a primary challenge. Although he's not in the leadership, a it's good news. Massachusetts is for the most part a one party state (Democrat). And that is a huge problem. Primary challenges are heavily discouraged by the powers that be and thus once elected, it's usually a lifetime appointment. NOT what the founders intended. The elected politicians then engage in the types of poor behavior one would expect in this type of a situation: corruption, ignoring constituents, etc etc. In this particular case it's a corruption issue, in Cantor's it was an ignoring the constituents issue. Both are bad. Whatever you may think about the tea party's politics, they have done a great job scaring the politicians in Republican one party states into at least pretending to behave themselves. Hopefully, this is the first of many similar actions in Democratic one party states. :twisted:
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