Actin The Sham
08-06-2009, 04:42 PM
From some blog:
In Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands and Latvia the governing parties have taken a hammering in the face of the economic crisis, according to early exit polls.
Fianna Fail in Ireland and the Labour party in Britain have received their worst ever share of the national vote in local elections. These results will be replicated in the European elections as voters punish the governing parties for their economic mistakes.
In Latvia and the Netherlands fringe parties are the big winners. The Dutch far right have triumphed with Geert Widlers taking four seats while in Latvia the far left Harmony Centre party- led by former Latvian communist leader Alfred Rubiks is set for a big win. Rubiks, who was convicted of treason for attempting a coup against the democratic government in the early 1990s, is on course to claim 20 per cent of the vote.
Clearly the economic crisis is the key issue that voters are reacting to in these elections and fringe parties look set to make gains at the expense of the political establishment.
These should be perfect conditions for Libertas to make a breakthrough. It is running some 531 candidates in 14 EU countries on an anti-establishment platform and has been claiming that it could scoop up to 100 seats in the 736 seat European parliament.
Dream on Declan. I predict the party, which has probably spent euro 30 million on the campaign, could be set for a humiliating defeat in almost every EU state it runs in. In the Netherlands and Latvia its candidates didn’t even show up in the exit polls and instead were lumped into the “other parties” category. In Britain it will struggle against a host of anti-EU parties such as UKIP and NotoEU and polls conducted prior to today’s voting suggested Libertas may claim just a single seat in
France. But even that result in France would be a major disappointment given that Libertas has teamed up with the Movement for France party, which currently has three sitting MEPs in parliament. Libertas’ failure rests on several factors.
The whole premise of the party- its opposition to the Lisbon treaty- simply doesn’t turn on European voters, who care more about saving their jobs right now. Ganley also faced a huge challenge in building a political movement from scratch in a myriad of countries where he simply didn’t know the political landscape. Libertas also struggled to present any coherent ideology, for example by advocating a clamp down on immigration in Ireland while supporting open borders in Poland.
For these reasons I think no matter what happens in the north west constituency today I’d be surprised if Libertas’ pan-European ambition survives this election.
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Poor Deccy.
:lol:
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In Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands and Latvia the governing parties have taken a hammering in the face of the economic crisis, according to early exit polls.
Fianna Fail in Ireland and the Labour party in Britain have received their worst ever share of the national vote in local elections. These results will be replicated in the European elections as voters punish the governing parties for their economic mistakes.
In Latvia and the Netherlands fringe parties are the big winners. The Dutch far right have triumphed with Geert Widlers taking four seats while in Latvia the far left Harmony Centre party- led by former Latvian communist leader Alfred Rubiks is set for a big win. Rubiks, who was convicted of treason for attempting a coup against the democratic government in the early 1990s, is on course to claim 20 per cent of the vote.
Clearly the economic crisis is the key issue that voters are reacting to in these elections and fringe parties look set to make gains at the expense of the political establishment.
These should be perfect conditions for Libertas to make a breakthrough. It is running some 531 candidates in 14 EU countries on an anti-establishment platform and has been claiming that it could scoop up to 100 seats in the 736 seat European parliament.
Dream on Declan. I predict the party, which has probably spent euro 30 million on the campaign, could be set for a humiliating defeat in almost every EU state it runs in. In the Netherlands and Latvia its candidates didn’t even show up in the exit polls and instead were lumped into the “other parties” category. In Britain it will struggle against a host of anti-EU parties such as UKIP and NotoEU and polls conducted prior to today’s voting suggested Libertas may claim just a single seat in
France. But even that result in France would be a major disappointment given that Libertas has teamed up with the Movement for France party, which currently has three sitting MEPs in parliament. Libertas’ failure rests on several factors.
The whole premise of the party- its opposition to the Lisbon treaty- simply doesn’t turn on European voters, who care more about saving their jobs right now. Ganley also faced a huge challenge in building a political movement from scratch in a myriad of countries where he simply didn’t know the political landscape. Libertas also struggled to present any coherent ideology, for example by advocating a clamp down on immigration in Ireland while supporting open borders in Poland.
For these reasons I think no matter what happens in the north west constituency today I’d be surprised if Libertas’ pan-European ambition survives this election.
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Poor Deccy.
:lol:
http://i39.tinypic.com/116rygg.gif