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So after all the talk of expenses, sleaze and massive protest votes the election went off with the usual apathy that symbolises a European Election.
Less than 35% of the eligible voters came out and put their cross in the box, yet we hear talk in the media of a massive victory for the Conservatives and UKIP, so I thought it was time the results were put in context.
| TURNOUT: | 14,032,420 | ELECTORATE: | 40,300,527 | 34.82% | |
| Votes | MEPs | ||||
| Party | Total | % | Total | +/- | % of Electorate |
| Conservative | 4,198,394 | 27.7 | 25 | 1 | 10.42% |
| (+1.0) | |||||
| UK Independence Party | 2,498,226 | 16.5 | 13 | 1 | 6.20% |
| (+0.3) | |||||
| Labour | 2,381,760 | 15.7 | 13 | -5 | 5.91% |
| (-6.9) | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | 2,080,613 | 13.7 | 11 | 1 | 5.16% |
| (-1.2) | |||||
| Green Party | 1,303,745 | 8.6 | 2 | 0 | 3.24% |
| (+2.4) | |||||
| British National Party | 943,598 | 6.2 | 2 | 2 | 2.34% |
| (+1.3) | |||||
The Conservatives managed to convince just 10% of the electorate to vote for them, and with this underwhelming vote of confidence are representing us with 25 MEPs, second place goes to UKIP who with just 6% of the public vote get 13 MEPs, and poor old Labour gets knocked into third place with just under 6% of the vote and get 13 MEPs.
These are not figures any of us should be proud of, in a democracy we need to use our vote to make a difference, we now have 25 Conservative MEPs when 90% of the people in the UK didn’t vote for them.
This wasn’t a victory for the Conservatives or UKIP, it was a show of just how many people are totally disillusioned with our political system.
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One Response to “Euro Election Breakdown”
The only solution to ensure every vote counts would be for proportional representation to replace the current system as the majority of the population has never been represented which is why we are such a divided country.
The way in which to change this is not for small insignificant ‘teams’ standing to gain access to European paychecks but for changes to be made in this country first and then to offload Europe once and for all.
The Jury Team, as with nearly every other party in the recent Euro elections insulted the voters of this country by beleiving that cheaply produced leaflets pushed through random letterboxes were the only form of contact those parties made with the people. That is not a way to gain votes or support neither is the manner of campaigning whereby the Jury team as with other parties chose to ridicule and criticise other parties rather than bring forward serious policies and debate.
I congratulate all these parties because they ensured the election of two BNP MEP’s, who without the adverse free publicity given to them by parties who feared rather than challenged them, they are now growing in strength in this country.
The reason being that some of their policies are exactly what other parties should be adopting but you all fear tackling the immigratiomn problem, you all cower at the thought of saying boo to Europe and you all have the one singular agenda of lining you own pockets whilst you still can. I do not see any difference in Jury Team candidates than any other politicians especially as most of them have simply failed on the political ladder previously and are now eyeing up the riches rather than the reality of politics.
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