Local Elections Results, Bad News for the EU.

[The Fisheys]

Thursdays local election results are pretty bad news for the EU.

Held in the mainly Conservative leaning Shires, 25% of people who voted supported UKIP, who only have one policy........to leave the EU. Labour polled 29%, and the Conservatives 23%.

Inevitably, the Conservatives will now come under increasing pressure to do a deal with UKIP, assuming that they haven't already!

If UKIP really wanted to throw a cat amongst the pigeons, all they need do is have a one policy manifesto, "if elected we will leave the EU, then call another election!"

The Conservative response will have to be "we are the only party committed to an "in / out" referendum, so a vote for UKIP will let The Europhillic Labour Party in, UKIP cannot win, so only a vote for Conservatives will lead to a vote on the EU."

Labour will have to respond, and also promise a referendum.

The result is a foregone conclusion...........Britain will vote to leave. Usually in Elections, people vote with their wallet. However, every once in a while they vote with their hearts. There is a revulsion against faceless bureaucrats who have intruded into just about every area of life, and the current trend is to vote out the incumbent government, see France, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Voting to leave the EU offers the best opportunity to give a real bloody nose to the political classes who have so fallen short in the past decade. It is for the same reason that in all probability Scotland will vote to leave the UK, especially as the referendum is to be held shortly after a nationalist festival in Scotland called the Commonwealth Games.

​At least it should be interesting!

[flag of convenience]

All that is needed is UKIP to come up with a few policies rather than being a one horse race. I sense UKIP will disolve from within by petty irritations and personalities.

 

Labour could do itself a favour and come up with policy that distinguses it from the Cons.

[Bobbsy]

I suspect UKIP is more like bad news for Britain than bad news for the EU.

 

​Anybody else old enough to remember back in the 60s when France actively tried to block the UK's entry into the Common Market (forerunner to the EU)? A good many Europeans would be happy to see the back of the UK.

[Perthbum]

Britain will be out if Europe within 5 years a lot if experts are saying.

[Toolbox]

I just love to see democracy in action. I've always criticised people who don't vote and are constantly moaning........UKIP are proving that every vote does count and does make a huge difference, even if they can't get enough to form a government.

[Mongrel]

Then the yanks will say tatty bye

[simmo]

The sky won't fall in if the UK leaves the EU.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/659572a6-5b57-11e2-9d4c-00144feab49a.html#axzz2SJzS54WH

[Perthbum]

Then the yanks will say tatty bye

Rubbish.

[akiralx]

Rubbish.

 

The USA would certainly be very disturbed if the UK left the EU, as they have already made plain. It would certainly damage the UK's relationship with them a great deal - it would no longer be 'special'.

 

The snag with UKIP's (and right wing Conservatives') wishes for a referendum is that all three established parties, all trades unions, the CBI, the City, and business leaders generally, are all strongly opposed to the UK leaving owing to the damage they feel it would do to Britain's economy. So far we have tended to hear the Eurosceptic view, when all the above, and newspaper proprietors, start to spell out the ramifications the support for leaving will fall considerably.

[jacktar]

Thursdays local election results are pretty bad news for the EU.

Held in the mainly Conservative leaning Shires, 25% of people who voted supported UKIP, who only have one policy........to leave the EU. Labour polled 29%, and the Conservatives 23%.

Inevitably, the Conservatives will now come under increasing pressure to do a deal with UKIP, assuming that they haven't already!

If UKIP really wanted to throw a cat amongst the pigeons, all they need do is have a one policy manifesto, "if elected we will leave the EU, then call another election!"

The Conservative response will have to be "we are the only party committed to an "in / out" referendum, so a vote for UKIP will let The Europhillic Labour Party in, UKIP cannot win, so only a vote for Conservatives will lead to a vote on the EU."

Labour will have to respond, and also promise a referendum.

The result is a foregone conclusion...........Britain will vote to leave. Usually in Elections, people vote with their wallet. However, every once in a while they vote with their hearts. There is a revulsion against faceless bureaucrats who have intruded into just about every area of life, and the current trend is to vote out the incumbent government, see France, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Voting to leave the EU offers the best opportunity to give a real bloody nose to the political classes who have so fallen short in the past decade. It is for the same reason that in all probability Scotland will vote to leave the UK, especially as the referendum is to be held shortly after a nationalist festival in Scotland called the Commonwealth Games.

​At least it should be interesting!

 

They 144 seats in a local election, never made a ripple in the other 26 member states.

 

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