Posted on 05/26/2019 5:22:54 PM PDT by rintintin
NIGEL Farage tonight delivered a massive “wake-up call” to the Tories and Labour as he led the Brexit Party to a historic win in the European elections. Millions of voters deserted the two main parties and flocked to Mr Farage in a bid to show their fury at the failure of the political class to deliver Brexit.
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Good
We voted for a wall and did not get it. Democracy does not work.
Yup. Hungary, Poland, and the Czechs are among our best allies.
we can now swap Cali, NY, Conn. for the UK, France, Italy, and Hungary
Huu-ahh!
Jeremy Corbyn, the anti-Semitic Hamas lover, cango to hell.
all a facade if UK can’t get rid of all these muzzies and africans, romanian leeches
Do-overs seem to be the left strategy now. Do over and over and over and over and over until they get their way like children crying for a candy bar at the supermarket checkout counter.
Brexit got more than the next closest two... combined.
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…Americans who worry about Russia election interference should stop focusing on such trivialities and instead realize that the idea that they have a choice over how they are governed is a mere illusion, Vladislav Surkov, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, wrote in an op-ed published this week.
“The illusion of choice is the most important illusion, the main trick of Western democracy especially….--- The rejection of this illusion in favor of the reality that everything is predestined will allow society to reflect first on our vision of democratic development,” Surkov wrote.
“Foreign politicians talk about Russia’s interference in elections and referendums around the world.
In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it.”... ------Vladimir Putin’s Adviser Tells Americans: ‘Russia Interferes in Your Brains, We Change Your Conscience’, Cristina Maza (Newsweek) Feb 12, 2019
Praying for a quick successor to the red pope. Victor Orban, I think, would be an awesome fourth. He has power that Lech Walesa did not.
It’s a classic leftist strategy to keep voting over and over again until they get the result that they want. Then, at exactly at the point, it becomes permanent Settled Law. Anyone who disagrees is an evil racist, who deserves to have their family and career destroyed, and freedom taken away.
EU and UN, unelected dictatorial bodies. One shrinking significantly.
Now let’s move the UN to Caracas where it will fit in.
My crystal ball reveals the letters T R U M P on the UN building. Prime real estate, why not?
Trump/Farage? I’ll buy that! Both are a refreshing change to the same old shit we have seen in the last 100 years.
How many seats?
Look beyond the headlines to the results
Percentage of vote won (remember this is proportional representation):
100% LEAVE parties
Brexit: 32% of the vote
UKIP: 4% of the vote
total: 36%
100% REMAIN parties
LibDems: 17%
Greens: 11%
SNP: 3%
Change UK: 3%
Total: 34%
Other parties were 6% and I discount Labour and Conservative as they are also not considered 100% leave or remain.
It looks like a split down the middle again.
You’re right, democracy does not work. If we were the representative REPUBLIC the founding fathers meant us to have, and followed the constitution we were given, I suspect things would be quite different even though we still might not have a wall because we would not need it.
Farage’s party got 32% of the vote for the EU parliament. this translates to 28 seats out of the 73 allocated to the UK.
This was not a general election - it does indicate peoples’ moods on Brexit, but remember
1. The next UK General Election is due in 2022
2. Farage’s party isn’t set up YET for the GE (it very well could, no doubt)
3. A GE will have other issues
Farage could turn this into a vote in the GE in 3 years time, right now, there is zero possibility of him becoming PM in the next 4 months (as, even with May out, the Tories aren’t going to be fools enough to call for a GE)
It is a political statement to the two major Parties that the British people are serious about Brexit.
We didn’t get it-yet.
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