Yeah I had fun last night explaining Windrush to a Spanish friend of mine.
What a colossal fuck up (Windrush. Not the explanation or my friend)
CraigM
4709
I had never heard of it before. Ironically I was just at one of the locations said Windrush generation people would have come from two weeks ago.
What stupid and cruel racism.
Chris Morris was always ahead of his time.
draxen
4711
Election result night! :)
Am I correct in thinking that the Brexit party at the EU level is the party of, “Hey Britain, GTFO already?”
draxen
4713
laughs
Yes! :)
They are a single issue party who are pushing to leave Europe with no deal (WTO).
It’s the party of “The EU sucks for my country and I’m just here to get paid, not going to bother to do any work to try and improve anything”.
Which, it’s a bit genius. By not doing their work they ensure the EU finds answers that are less positive for their constituents which gives them something to get votes.
Aceris
4715
It’s people displaying this kind of prejudice, so idiotic that it doesn’t even bother to make sense, that have in large part fuelled Farage s rise.
Their MEPs want to be out of a job in October, how can they be in it for the money?
What I’ve seen from them, I don’t have a particularly positive image.
But then, I’m not British, so I’m sure it’s mostly mutual.
Because:
a) It’s well known that MEP’s have excellent benefits, great expense accounts, and lots of opportunities for fraudulent behavior,
b) They’re hypocritical (if not outright criminal), and not particularly interested in what their constituents want.
It’s pretty common, actually. The Danish MEP with the most votes in our last election is a typical example. He’s rabidly anti-EU, was elected on promises of combating fraud in the EU, and is currently being investigated for fraud amounting to approximately half a million Euro, as well as identity theft and perjury. The fact that he (and his party) remain uncooperative suggests that we’ve probably only seen the top of the iceberg so far.
And it’s not as if the UKIP is a stranger to this sort of stuff - Farage and UKIP have faced very similar misappropriation accusations in the past (for the 2015 campaign, in fact). Front National has also misappropriated EU funds.
The more appropriate question is: why wouldn’t you assume that they plan to defraud the EU as much as they can?
The Brexit Party is just another project for Bannon and the far right.
It will soon rename itself to no doubt something jingoistic and nationalist. This phase is just building a power base.
You think these racist far right fucks will disband when Brexit happens?
rho21
4720
Brexit already counts as that, I’d say.
Still, pretty good results all told, despite that the news outlets are characterising it as the Brexit Party dominating. The share of votes for No Deal parties is up by 7% of the total vote to 35%, the share for Remain parties (not including Labour as I’m not sure exactly what they want) is up by over 20%, to 40%.
Worked for Farage for several years…
Edit :28 out of 64 seats so far for Farage, hardly constitutes a solid victory.
From the BBC :
Anti-Brexit parties - those in favour of another referendum - collectively took about 40% of the vote, compared with 35% for the two parties in favour of leaving the EU without a deal
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48417228
So actually the results across Europe indicate a decline in right wing votes?
That’s good news as far as I’m concerned.
For all their non stop shouting and domination of the discussion, for them to score so lowly… Gives me hope.
Also, fuck brexit and the brexit party.
It might also represent the non-right waking up and realizing that elections matter and they need to actually participate instead of, you know, ignoring them.
Brexit has definitely been a wake-up call for many people across Europe. Although 51% is still not a really good participation, it’s a big jump up from the 43% of 2014. And there’s no question that the mobilization on the Far Right has been countered by a mobilization of pro-EU and pro-Green voters.
Once the UK MEPS are gone it looks as if both the far-right and the far-left have lost support in the EU parliament; not by much, admittedly, but still by about 1%.
Several contributing factors:
- Far Right parties have been involved in quite a few corruption scandals in recent years (Austria, DK, etc). This is a big contributor to the result in Denmark, for instance.
- A lot of the protest votes (i.e., people who are not satisfied with the status quo), have instead - very sensibly - voted for the liberals (pro-EU, want to reform it), or the Greens (climate-reform, also pro-EU since they realize it is the best way to reach their goal), rather than the “tear everything down” parties.
If I was an American hard/far right guru like Bannon then sending in the Gamergaters+Infowars to shift the UKIP voterbase fully to his and Farage’s new completely locked down Brexit Party Project would have been a genius idea. UKIPs money sources are BXPs money sources so this isnt in the realms of fantasy.
End result of this is 24 UKIP gone 24 new BXP MEPs and there is a huge push on socmedia to engage in revisionism around Farage and his cronies and try and erase his deeds of the last few decades.
draxen
4727
I thought this analysis was pretty good:
National Rally, perhaps, for maximum irony…
