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TomSea:
I like BoJo, Boris Johnson enough but it doesn't mean these folks are still perfect:



https://twitter.com/nigel_farage

truth_seeker:
The video above, in typical leftist spin, claims this was not a very big win for natioalism, but if you listen if turns out to be just that very big win overal.

As always, Europe's multiparty systems make it hard to see that in one glance.

Re the UK, Let the Brits make their choiceEU parliament elections.

dfwgator:

--- Quote from: DCPatriot on May 27, 2019, 01:33:05 am ---You know that Donald Trump is responsible for this, don't you?      wink777


 :pop41:

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I'd say more those who voted for Trump,  they showed the world it can be done.

truth_seeker:

--- Quote from: dfwgator on May 28, 2019, 05:54:50 pm ---I'd say more those who voted for Trump,  they showed the world it can be done.

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The media, their political opponents, have labeled them:

Hitler, Nazi, Fascist, far right Alt right, extremists, bootlickers, goosesteppers , to name a few.


 

Elderberry:
EU Election Results

https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=40480

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 5/29/2019


--- Quote ---From this side of the pond, the EU election results may seem somewhat baffling. Populist parties gained ground at the expense of centrist and traditional parties, but so did the Greens. This doesn’t fit our traditional left-right political schemas.

In the UK, Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party captured the majority of EU parliamentary seats. “Mr Farage’s party won 29 seats, the Lib Dems 16, Labour 10, the Greens seven, the Tories four, the SNP three, and Plaid Cymru and the DUP one each.” Those are disasterous results for Labour and the Tories. UKIP was wiped out and entirely replaced by the Brexit Party. The Liberal Democrats coming in second was a result I do not think was foreseen by anyone, nor the Greens doing better than the Tories. The colossal stink of the inability to deliver Brexit that clings to the Tories and Labour helped both Liberal Democrats and Greens, both being so far from power and out of the spotlight the last few years. Faced with parties run by Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, “Vote them all out!” must have seemed like a coldly rational choice.

Some interesting results in Scotland:

    In Scotland, the pro-Remain SNP won the biggest share of the vote, with just under 38%, giving it three MEPs.

    The Brexit Party came in second place with a significantly lower percentage – 14.8% – followed by the Lib Dems with 13.9% and the Tories with 11.6% – meaning each party has one seat.

    But Labour only received 9.3% of the vote – a loss in vote share of 16.6% – leaving it with no MEPs in Scotland for the first time.

It’s hard to say what these results indicate for UK domestic politics going forward, as traditionally MEP elections have been very poor indicators of the next general election. But the giant Brexit cockup is hugely hurting both Tories and Labour.

On the results from Europe as a whole:
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