Upcoming EU parliament elections

Mrs. Architect is aff to a display of the wean's gymnastics, so apparently we're voting at quarter to ten.

It is 10pm they close the polling stations, right?

One of my colleagues is born in Hong Kong (parents in the diplomatic service) and, living in Glasgow, is swithering whether to wind up any "send them home" people at the polling station. Living in the south side as he does, however, I suspect said individuals will already have been tarred and feathered.

As an aside, I was horrified when doing a Public Engagement Event as part of a Pre-Application Consultation (i.e. Planning Permission) last week to have the secretary of the community council complain that all the jobs at the extant site where "filled by the Poes" who were "different to us". I established that said individual meant the Poles and resisted the temptation to respond with "what, hard working and willing to take low-paid jobs?". Nothing like a bit of casual racism in the middle class retired community, I thought....*


* Said individual an incomer himself, ironically
 
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Architect said:
Mrs. Architect is aff to a display of the wean's gymnastics, so apparently we're voting at quarter to ten.

It is 10pm they close the polling stations, right?
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I hope so for you. Here they just closed at 9PM and we got the first exit poll. Turnout predicted at only 35% - which is not too bad actually, considering earlier EP elections. Greatest news is that Wilders (PVV) would lose a seat. The Animal Rights Party and the Senior Citizens Party 50Plus would both enter the EP with one seat.

Duffy Moon said:
Dave Nellist was one of the candidates.
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Sounds like a guy I could vote for - but not in European elections. :)

ETA: and a second and final prognosis of the Dutch seats. Wilders' PVV actually loses 2 seats: they won 4 seats in 2009, but in 2011, the number of Dutch seats in the EP was enlarged from 25 to 26, and the PVV got a 5fh seat.

The current prognosis divides the 26 seats between 10 parties, with none getting more than 4 seats...
 
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Wean got a gold medal, and we got to the polling station at 9.40pm. A good few voters there, but the polling officer person/staff/punkah wallah said it had been a quiet day. No sign of any people canvassing outside, notwithstanding very clement weather conditions.

I noted the voting slip had three variations of "send them brown chappies home" including the BNP and UKiP, plus a few strange hangers on.
 
There was a queue.

There are an impressive number of options on the ballot for those wishing to express there xenophobia. In fairness the english democrats did offer you the chance to register your dislike of the native inhabitants of britian.

Other than that: Meh.
 
geni said:
There was a queue.

There are an impressive number of options on the ballot for those wishing to express there xenophobia. In fairness the english democrats did offer you the chance to register your dislike of the native inhabitants of britian.

Other than that: Meh.
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Surely not all the native inhabitants?
 
Architect said:
I noted the voting slip had three variations of "send them brown chappies home" including the BNP and UKiP, plus a few strange hangers on.
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We had the choice of UKIP, BNP, No2EU and Britain First. At least it might split the bigot vote somewhat.

/sunny optimism
 
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liverpoolmiss said:
Important! Fun! A day where almost a quarter of voters rush to the polls in their enthusiasm!

I will be voting anti-science hippies. Why? Because the choice is:

- racist ****
- old Etonian idiots
- old Etonian idiots' poodles
- incompetent, middle ground, neither one thing or the other
- anti-science hippies
- other assorted racists
- a rather nice chap from the Peace Party

What a privilege to be able to choose from this lot.
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It is a bit more sweary than here though
 
Architect said:
For ease of reference:

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/scotland-european-candidates-2014/

I've just had a laugh at the No2Eu site. A damning indictment of our educational system(s), if you ask me.
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Ah, fun:

My area
Suddenly, I do want to send someone "home":
CATHY DUFFY (BNP) Born 1958, Malaysia.
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ROBERT WEST (BNP) Former lecturer who has set up his own church in Holbeach. Former South Holland councillor, originally elected as a Conservative.
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The Harmony Party? Seriously?

Anyways, I do enjoy the prospect of a (white) BNP candidate born in Malaysia just a year after independence where we were politely shown the door. Maybe she wants her own back?

One assumes that the other one is neither Dutch or American, which is a shame as it would all have been terribly ironic.
 
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Suddenly, I do want to send someone "home":
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I recently bumped into a Scots-Chinese chap I had been at school with and, on enquiring as to his recent low profile, was advised that he had "gone home for a holiday". Knowing his family background, it allowed me (accurately) reply with "Glasgow?".

:p
 
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My area
Suddenly, I do want to send someone "home":
ROBERT WEST (BNP) Former lecturer who has set up his own church in Holbeach. Former South Holland councillor, originally elected as a Conservative.
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That's South Holland in Lincolnshire, not in the Netherlands. But if you just don't maintain the dykes, he'll drown in a decade or so. There's a reason that region is called "Holland". ;)
 
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I picked up the publicity material at ten. The improvised thing I left at Skirling worked brilliantly and was still 100% intact at close of poll - even though someone had moved it, complete with small rock weighing it down, to a more prominent position, and it rained a lot of the day.

Which makes me fear, sadly, that the defaced and disintegrating SNP A-board I spotted outside a polling station in Edinburgh had been deliberately vandalised. If my cardboard box and small rock came through unscathed in Skirling, a proper A-board must have had a lot of help to disintegrate in Embro.

Rolfe.
 
ddt said:
That's South Holland in Lincolnshire, not in the Netherlands. But if you just don't maintain the dykes, he'll drown in a decade or so. There's a reason that region is called "Holland". ;)
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Ah yes, I used to live in Kent, and the Kent marshes had had rather a lot of Dutch engineers initially reclaiming the land.

Mind you, the Dutch also made a short visit that has been immortalised in various pub names and signs in Kent.

Several "Flying Dutchman" pubs...
 
Election day today and the voting has just closed. The first exit poll suggests 23,1% of the vote to Danish People's Party (think UKIP, but slightly sanitized). I'm going to go have a lie down for a while if that holds.

Also, we're voting on whether Denmark should join the Unified Patent Court. Exit-polls are showing the Yes-side as beingh slightly ahead.
 
Early polls show an increase of former Nazis coming from Sweden to the parliament, but not as many as feared. We're sending lots of greens, though, so that's a good thing.
 
I did vote today.

Unfortunately, my vote wasn't enough to prevent the unmitigated disaster of Front National quadrupling its 2009 score, and being largely ahead of all other parties: ~25% vs ~20% for the next list (UMP). :mad:

This has a lot to do with the massive abstention (56-57%), but it's not really a consolation. :boggled:

There's something so wrong with how European elections are treated here (the government parties, and the media, being largely responsible for people not taking those elections seriously).
 
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