Off Topic EU Elections
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what will this years turnout be
been quite abysmal up till now
been quite abysmal up till now
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I should imagine we'll top the 50% mark for the first time. Interesting to note the decline in voter numbers in most countries especially the Mediterranean countries that have been financially f*cked by the Euro...
That's a bit harsh, mate.
The Labour party want to keep sending Aussie jobs overseas, just so they look good to the UN.
The Liberal party want to look after Aussies first.
F--k the UN, l say.
M aking
A ustralia
G reat
A gain
Or trying to get it up to New Zealand levels anyway
A ustralia
G reat
A gain
Or trying to get it up to New Zealand levels anyway
Still won’t reply to the scaremongering you keep pushing regarding Honda at Swindon, if you cannot accept that what you wrote was hogwash, don’t expect us to believe anything else from a remoaner scaremonger, and FYI I don’t listen to or read mainstream media, I prefer Al Jazeera, Euronews, RT etc a much better source of information is of course from the tinterweb.
So you keep believing your scaremongering and I’ll make up my own mind as I did when I proudly voted leave.
Interesting to note though is that year on year the average turnout for the whole corrupt institution is dropping at an average of about 2.8% per election, now I wonder why that is, maybe the people are becoming wise to the whole corrupt agenda and no longer see the point in voting as their votes don’t matter when it comes to the unelected EU commissions plans for the future of themselves and their sovereignty.
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I know that, straight away, there will be some who say that this is the "establishment" going after Farage who is shaking up the system. Let me just pre-empt that.
When most people voted for Brexit, they said that the main reason was to take back democratic control.
Does Nigel represent democracy? Is he honest?
His party is one of two that does not have any policies or a manifesto over the EU elections. He is riding the wave of the sentiment where people strongly want to bring about Brexit.
In voting for him you're literally voting for less democratic control, because that's what he represents.
By all means, vote so that you will be represented, including on your feelings towards leaving the EU. But don't vote for a charlatan like Farage.
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DAN HODGES: Repulsive tweet that reveals why Remainers have only themselves to blame for Farage
By Dan Hodges For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 09:44 AEST, 19 May 2019 | Updated: 17:15 AEST, 19 May 2019
Last Tuesday, an image began to circulate on Twitter of a Nigel Farage rally. Showing a predominantly white, relatively elderly audience, it was quickly seized upon by Matt Kelly, editor of the pro-Remain New European newspaper. ‘An actual Nigel Farage audience,’ he commented. ‘Marvel at the diversity, behold the spread of demographics. And bring a mop to clear up all the leaked piss afterwards.’
On Thursday, Britain votes in the European elections. If the opinion polls prove to be even remotely accurate, they will be won decisively by the Brexit Party.
At which point anxious Remainers will take to the airwaves and print, and commence a tortuous search for the reasons why.
The media – inevitably – will shoulder much of the blame, accused of failing to effectively interrogate, challenge and expose the Brexit Party’s leader. Farage will be castigated for nefariously pulling the wool over the eyes of a gullible electorate. Theresa May will be pilloried because that’s basically all she is useful for now. And it will all amount to nothing more than an exercise in self-indulgent, pseudo-intellectual denial.
Farage’s impending triumph needs no scholarly deconstruction. All it requires is for Remainers to open their eyes and ears, and grasp three simple facts.
In 2016, Britain voted to leave the EU. It is now 2019, and Britain has not left the European Union.
Mocking, abusing and belittling people who perceive a basic injustice in this democratic disconnect will not result in them reversing their opinion. It will result in the brutal political backlash about to be administered to Britain’s mainstream politicians in four days’ time.
The Remainers place great store on the perceived ignorance of their opponents. Their supposed narrow world-view, simplistic Brexit prospectus and casual Little Englander prejudice. They are pledged to take the fight to them right up until 10pm on polling day.
But they would be better served
doing a little less fighting and a bit more reflecting. Reflecting on their own ignorance of the forces that are about to be unleashed.
Farage is one of the most highly scrutinised politicians in British political history. His childhood, medical history, private life, business life, financial relationships, political relationships, drinking habits, driving habits, sartorial choices – just about every aspect of his existence has been examined and headlined on one of the major national media platforms. And the bandwagon keeps rolling.
Rather than the reincarnation of Churchill, Farage is Brexit’s Del Boy Trotter – the fast-talking chancer whose patter is ultimately doomed to failure
There is no killer fact waiting to be revealed. There will be no definitive exposé. The silver bullet Remainers keep praying for does not exist. And it doesn’t exist for one simple reason. Nigel Farage is fooling no one.
Certainly not the British people. Contrary to popular Remainer wisdom, they know full well who and what the Brexit Party leader is. He does not engender the starry-eyed devotion of Blair, the awe of Thatcher or cultish idealism of Corbyn. Rather than the reincarnation of Churchill, he is Brexit’s Del Boy Trotter – the fast-talking chancer whose patter is ultimately doomed to failure, but will burst the conceit and pomposity of the Establishment in the process.
The British people are also aware of something else. Whatever distortions and sleight of hand Farage may have deployed in previous campaigns and incarnations, in the 2019 European elections he is telling the truth.
Before the Referendum, we were told by the Prime Minister of the day – and in a taxpayer-funded leaflet delivered to every home in the land – that it was our choice. We could vote to stay in the European Union, or we could vote to leave the European Union – and the politicians would implement our will.
Britain chose to leave. At which point the politicians turned to the nation and said: ‘Sorry, but you’re staying anyway.’
Farage describes this as an act of betrayal. To which Remainers respond by accusing him of peddling incendiary invective.
But what do we actually call it when someone delivers a solemn pledge, you accept it in good faith, then they do precisely the opposite? What word is in the dictionary to describe such an act?
In this campaign, the truth is not Farage’s enemy, but his friend. Yet for some reason, Remainers are utterly blind to this basic fact. They are setting themselves against the will of the people as freely and fairly expressed via the ballot box. They are abusing those who want that result respected for being too stupid, too old or too white. Then they wonder why they are losing the argument. And the European elections.
Perhaps they ultimately don’t care. As in 2016, initial shock at the Brexit Party’s breakthrough could simply give way to further defiance. If the voice of the voters has been ignored once, why not again? Maybe the end will be seen to justify the means.
So long as Britain remains in the sainted EU, the implosion of the main parties and fracturing of parliamentary democracy is a price worth paying. But that it will have to be paid is no longer in doubt. The patience of the British people has been tested to destruction.
Our politicians have been given – and ignored – too many warnings. They have taken the voters for granted for the final time.
This morning the Remainers are struggling to understand what lies behind the Farage Surge.
On Thursday they will be given the answer.
DAN HODGES: Repulsive tweet that reveals why Remainers have only themselves to blame for Farage
By Dan Hodges For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 09:44 AEST, 19 May 2019 | Updated: 17:15 AEST, 19 May 2019
Last Tuesday, an image began to circulate on Twitter of a Nigel Farage rally. Showing a predominantly white, relatively elderly audience, it was quickly seized upon by Matt Kelly, editor of the pro-Remain New European newspaper. ‘An actual Nigel Farage audience,’ he commented. ‘Marvel at the diversity, behold the spread of demographics. And bring a mop to clear up all the leaked piss afterwards.’
On Thursday, Britain votes in the European elections. If the opinion polls prove to be even remotely accurate, they will be won decisively by the Brexit Party.
At which point anxious Remainers will take to the airwaves and print, and commence a tortuous search for the reasons why.
The media – inevitably – will shoulder much of the blame, accused of failing to effectively interrogate, challenge and expose the Brexit Party’s leader. Farage will be castigated for nefariously pulling the wool over the eyes of a gullible electorate. Theresa May will be pilloried because that’s basically all she is useful for now. And it will all amount to nothing more than an exercise in self-indulgent, pseudo-intellectual denial.
Farage’s impending triumph needs no scholarly deconstruction. All it requires is for Remainers to open their eyes and ears, and grasp three simple facts.
In 2016, Britain voted to leave the EU. It is now 2019, and Britain has not left the European Union.
Mocking, abusing and belittling people who perceive a basic injustice in this democratic disconnect will not result in them reversing their opinion. It will result in the brutal political backlash about to be administered to Britain’s mainstream politicians in four days’ time.
The Remainers place great store on the perceived ignorance of their opponents. Their supposed narrow world-view, simplistic Brexit prospectus and casual Little Englander prejudice. They are pledged to take the fight to them right up until 10pm on polling day.
But they would be better served
doing a little less fighting and a bit more reflecting. Reflecting on their own ignorance of the forces that are about to be unleashed.
Farage is one of the most highly scrutinised politicians in British political history. His childhood, medical history, private life, business life, financial relationships, political relationships, drinking habits, driving habits, sartorial choices – just about every aspect of his existence has been examined and headlined on one of the major national media platforms. And the bandwagon keeps rolling.
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Rather than the reincarnation of Churchill, Farage is Brexit’s Del Boy Trotter – the fast-talking chancer whose patter is ultimately doomed to failure
There is no killer fact waiting to be revealed. There will be no definitive exposé. The silver bullet Remainers keep praying for does not exist. And it doesn’t exist for one simple reason. Nigel Farage is fooling no one.
Certainly not the British people. Contrary to popular Remainer wisdom, they know full well who and what the Brexit Party leader is. He does not engender the starry-eyed devotion of Blair, the awe of Thatcher or cultish idealism of Corbyn. Rather than the reincarnation of Churchill, he is Brexit’s Del Boy Trotter – the fast-talking chancer whose patter is ultimately doomed to failure, but will burst the conceit and pomposity of the Establishment in the process.
The British people are also aware of something else. Whatever distortions and sleight of hand Farage may have deployed in previous campaigns and incarnations, in the 2019 European elections he is telling the truth.
Before the Referendum, we were told by the Prime Minister of the day – and in a taxpayer-funded leaflet delivered to every home in the land – that it was our choice. We could vote to stay in the European Union, or we could vote to leave the European Union – and the politicians would implement our will.
Britain chose to leave. At which point the politicians turned to the nation and said: ‘Sorry, but you’re staying anyway.’
Farage describes this as an act of betrayal. To which Remainers respond by accusing him of peddling incendiary invective.
But what do we actually call it when someone delivers a solemn pledge, you accept it in good faith, then they do precisely the opposite? What word is in the dictionary to describe such an act?
In this campaign, the truth is not Farage’s enemy, but his friend. Yet for some reason, Remainers are utterly blind to this basic fact. They are setting themselves against the will of the people as freely and fairly expressed via the ballot box. They are abusing those who want that result respected for being too stupid, too old or too white. Then they wonder why they are losing the argument. And the European elections.
Perhaps they ultimately don’t care. As in 2016, initial shock at the Brexit Party’s breakthrough could simply give way to further defiance. If the voice of the voters has been ignored once, why not again? Maybe the end will be seen to justify the means.
So long as Britain remains in the sainted EU, the implosion of the main parties and fracturing of parliamentary democracy is a price worth paying. But that it will have to be paid is no longer in doubt. The patience of the British people has been tested to destruction.
Our politicians have been given – and ignored – too many warnings. They have taken the voters for granted for the final time.
This morning the Remainers are struggling to understand what lies behind the Farage Surge.
On Thursday they will be given the answer.
Farage all the way now. If 17 million leave voters vote for him in the GE also, we could have him as our next PM.
All we need is the fascist remainers to carry on with their insults and there's a real possibility that it could happen.
Just a follow up observation on these figures. Both Belgium and Luxembourg have compulsory voting. This means that voters are required to register at their relevent polling centre on voting day - the majority then subsequently vote. This is probably why their turnout figures are the highest.
Good article. Thanks for posting, Kiwi.
Matt ‘Enlightened’ Kelly is a massive bell-end. He ever so cleverly managed to put on display his racism, ageism and political intolerance off the back of undemocratic sour grapes. Some feat.
It’s like all that ‘gammon’ stuff too. Even if there is a demographic of Brexit-minded older white people in this country, are they not allowed a voice?
The arrogance of knobheads like him is breathtaking.
The delightful irony. You'll recall your hero Farage standing in front of a bill board deliberately aping a similar styled piece of Nazi propaganda? A literal piece of fascist propaganda.
is everyone a fascist these days
Whereas the right have always been known for their acceptance of other views.
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