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Upcoming EU parliament elections

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So the elections for the EU parliament are coming up in May I think. What are you going to vote for?

I'm going to vote for the Pirate Party, like I did last election. The only decent choice for the EU parliament.
 
Humes fork said:
So the elections for the EU parliament are coming up in May I think. What are you going to vote for?

I'm going to vote for the Pirate Party, like I did last election. The only decent choice for the EU parliament.
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Are their Swedish candidates as attractive as for the Amsterdam city council?

I would have thought you'd vote Sweden Democrats, the only ones to keep the dreaded Muslims out of Europe.

Personally, I don't know yet. I'm a card-carrying member of the Socialist Party, but I'm not a Euroskeptic. Any advice?
 
Humes fork said:
WTF, I've never said anything like that. You are lying. I have never contemplated voting for them.
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You might want to reread what I actually wrote.

I didn't claim you ever said such a thing. I didn't lie. However, anyone familiar with your posting history would think or suspect you'd vote for them.
 
My prediction: The parties that yell "REMOVE KEBAB!" the most will gain a lot of seats. But I largely don't have many options when it comes to voting between "HURR DURR REMOVE KEBAB!" or mainstream slimeballs.
 
NWO Sentryman said:
My prediction: The parties that yell "REMOVE KEBAB!" the most will gain a lot of seats. But I largely don't have many options when it comes to voting between "HURR DURR REMOVE KEBAB!" or mainstream slimeballs.
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Astute political commentary there. This will be the ...er... kebab election. :confused:
 
So my choices for the European election are:

- Labour
- Conservative
- Liberal Democrats
- Plaid Cymru
- UKIP
- Green
- Socialist Labour
- Socialist Party of Great Britain
- Independence from Europe

I will vote (even if I merely spoil my ballot), now I just need to work our for whom.
 
theprestige said:
Is Kebab a problem in the EU these days?
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Yes. The problem, in a nutshell, is this. Kebab and its cousin shawarma are popular dishes which are typically sold in stalls and bars operated by Turks and other Middle Eastern immigrants.

There is a fairly large voting block these days that wants the immigrants out, but still wants to regularly eat kebab.
 
NWO Sentryman said:
My prediction: The parties that yell "REMOVE KEBAB!" the most will gain a lot of seats. But I largely don't have many options when it comes to voting between "HURR DURR REMOVE KEBAB!" or mainstream slimeballs.
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You mean you want to keep the immigrants, but convert them to selling saveloys or jellied eels instead?
 
Craig B said:
You mean you want to keep the immigrants, but convert them to selling saveloys or jellied eels instead?
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That would be quite a novel stance. OWN FOOD FIRST!

On a similar note, I don't understand why the anti-immigrant types solely focus on humans, and apparently have no time for indigenous animals. For instance, the Canadian goose and the North-American grey squirrel are invasive species which threaten the survival of our native geese and squirrel, but I never hear Wilders, Le Pen or Farage about that.
 
ddt said:
That would be quite a novel stance. OWN FOOD FIRST!

On a similar note, I don't understand why the anti-immigrant types solely focus on humans, and apparently have no time for indigenous animals. For instance, the Canadian goose and the North-American grey squirrel are invasive species which threaten the survival of our native geese and squirrel, but I never hear Wilders, Le Pen or Farage about that.
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Both good eating, by the way. I mean the goose and the squirrel, of course, not Le Pen and Farage.
 
ddt said:
That would be quite a novel stance. OWN FOOD FIRST!

On a similar note, I don't understand why the anti-immigrant types solely focus on humans, and apparently have no time for indigenous animals. For instance, the Canadian goose and the North-American grey squirrel are invasive species which threaten the survival of our native geese and squirrel, but I never hear Wilders, Le Pen or Farage about that.
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Actually, I remember there was a woman who blogged fascist BNP crap in the UK who called herself Red Squirrel (I bet that caused confusion among the anti-leftists at "Redwatch"!). She seems to have left the Internet now though. I have no idea if Grey Squirrels grabbed her err...nuts though.
 
I'm going to be voting SNP, obviously. We need all the pro-independence support we can get in the run-up to the referendum. The opinion polls give some hope that the party might secure one more seat compared to 5 years ago, giving us 3 of Scotland's 6 seats.

Rolfe.
 
Are there any actual European parties which are not primarily national parties?

For example, a European Social Democratic Party or a European Communist Party or a European Conservative Party or European Anti-Kebab Alliance?
 
angrysoba said:
Are there any actual European parties which are not primarily national parties?

For example, a European Social Democratic Party or a European Communist Party or a European Conservative Party or European Anti-Kebab Alliance?
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No, unfortunately not. The European "parties" are coalitions of national parties. Too bad, I wouldn't mind voting for a foreigner if I thought they represented my views well, but most people apparently don't think so, and primarily recognize their own politicians and national parties.

Oh, and European coalitions only get party status in the EP - and thus all kind of extra privileges - when they have representatives from a minimum number of countries (seven IIRC). Which is why people like Wilders have been looking lately to forge an anti-kebab coalition. Established political movements like social-democracy, christian-democracy or liberalism obviously have no such problems.
 
angrysoba said:
Are there any actual European parties which are not primarily national parties?

For example, a European Social Democratic Party or a European Communist Party or a European Conservative Party or European Anti-Kebab Alliance?
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Nope. Some EU member states don't even have "national" parties of their own. For instance, the party usually labelled "the German Christian Democrats" in foreign reporting, the party of Chancellor Merkel, is actually two parties: the CSU, which only operates in Bavaria, and the CDU, which only operates everywhere else in Germany outside Bavaria. Belgium doesn't have any national parties (except for a few fringe nutcases, who haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of meeting the 5% electoral threshhold anywhere). The Dutch-speaking and French-speaking parts of the countries have their own parties, and while there's theoretically nothing stopping any party from putting up candidates across the whole country, they don't.
 
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