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I wouldn't be surprised if seven of our North West of England's eight new MEPs will be Brexit Party MEPs and the other one will be EDL founder Tommy Robinson, standing as an Independent. He's a 7-1 shot to be elected and only needs 10% of the vote.
This video by Mr Robinson shows the police ESCORTING a gang of rock-throwing Muslim thugs to a Mr Robinson EU elections rally in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
So the police - who we already know are on the side of Islamists because of their deliberate decision to do nothing about Islamic rape gangs - are giving the green light to Muslims to throw rocks at a politician campaigning in an election.
I hope you are elected as one of my MPs, Tommy!
This video by Mr Robinson shows the police ESCORTING a gang of rock-throwing Muslim thugs to a Mr Robinson EU elections rally in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
So the police - who we already know are on the side of Islamists because of their deliberate decision to do nothing about Islamic rape gangs - are giving the green light to Muslims to throw rocks at a politician campaigning in an election.
I hope you are elected as one of my MPs, Tommy!
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The complete guide to the European Elections
Ben Mannings and Peter Chappell
23 May 2019
The Spectator
The results of the European elections will be declared at 10pm tonight. Both the Conservatives and Labour are anticipating bad results, while Ukip, which secured 24 seats in 2014, is expected to implode. The Brexit party is tipped to win – but the extent of its victory will be an important barometer on public support for leaving the EU.
The UK has 73 seats in the European parliament, and there are currently 72 MEPs in their posts, 43 of whom will be seeking re-election on Thursday. Fighting them for the seats will be 548 new candidates, many coming from the new Brexit and Change UK parties.
You can see a full list of all the candidates the parties put forward here.
The voting system
For the European elections the UK is broken into 12 electoral regions, with each MEP serving as a representative to all of their region’s residents. Unlike the First Past the Post system used in General Elections, the D’Hondt System will be used, which works this way:
First, all the parties put forward a list of candidates to stand in each region, ranked in their preferred order. The candidate at the top of their list will be the first to take a seat if the party gets enough votes. In the polling booth, voters only select their preferred party, rather than individual candidates.
First round: The party which gains the most votes in a region wins a seat for the candidate at the top of their list.
Second round: The wining party’s vote is then divided by the number of seats they then have + 1. So if a party wins the first seat, their vote will be divided by two (one seat + 1). After the last round winner’s votes have been divided, the total votes are then reordered, and the party now at the top of the list will gain a seat.
Third round: Once again the party which has just won a seat has its total votes divided by one + the number of seats it has so far, and the results are again reordered – this process repeats itself until all the seats have been filled.
What will happen to MEPs if/when we leave the EU?
When (or if) the UK leaves the European Union, the European Parliament will reduce the number of its seats from the current 751 to 705. This means that 46 of the UK’s 73 seats will be removed, and 27 will be redistributed to ‘under-represented’ countries.
Odds:
The Brexit party are favourites to win the most seats in the election, with Ladbrokes putting their chances at 1/50. The Conservatives, meanwhile, are a staggering 100/1 to win the most seats this time. To put that into context Nigel Farage is 20/1 to become the next Prime Minister and the Queen is 80/1 to take up permanent residency in Ireland in 2019.
Guide to the regions:
Ukip – 2
Conservatives – 2
Labour – 1
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 3
Labour – 1
Conservatives – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
In the East Midlands, 58.8 per cent of the region’s residents voted in favour of leaving the European Union in 2016. Leave supporting candidates will therefore be expecting to do well, especially the new Brexit party who will hope to take seats from both the Conservatives and Ukip. The two incumbent Ukip MEPs for the region Jonathan Bullock and Margot Parker have already switched their allegiance to Farage’s new party, with Bullock set to run as a Brexit MEP for the region this time around.
Candidates to watch:
The headline candidate for the region will be the Brexit party’s Annunziata Rees-Mogg. Sister of Tory Brexiteer Jacob and former Conservative parliamentary candidate herself, Annunziata has been one of the highest profile names to stand for the new Brexit party and is expected to be the first candidate in the region to secure a seat.
Current Conservative MEPs Emma McClarkin and Rupert Matthews are defending their seats but will be in danger of losing them to the Brexit party. Rory Palmer for Labour will also be standing again, whilst veteran MEP Bill Newton Dunn, formerly of the Conservatives, will be hoping to siphon off the region’s Remain voters for the Lib Dems.
Ukip – 3
Conservatives – 3
Labour – 1
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 4
Lib Dems – 1
Labour – 1
Conservatives – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
With 56.5 per cent of the electorate voting in favour of leaving the EU in 2016, the Brexit party is hoping for one of its largest wins in the region, and expects to pick up all three of Ukip’s former seats.
Candidates to watch:
Richard Tice, the Brexit party’s lead candidate for the region will be expecting big gains. Geoffrey van Orden and John Flack will be contesting their seats for the Conservatives, but it is unlikely that they will both win. Labour MEP Alex Mayer will be hoping to hold onto his seat, whilst Stuart Agnew is one of only three MEPs for Ukip out of the 24 elected in 2014 who will be standing again for the party.
Labour – 4
Conservative – 2
Ukip – 1
Green – 1
Poll Predictions:
Labour – 2
Brexit Party – 2
Lib Dems – 2
Green Party – 1
Conservatives – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
Currently, Labour occupy four seats in the region, while the Conservatives have two, and Ukip and the Greens have one. Whilst Labour are expected to lose out, with 59.9 per cent of London voting in favour of Remain parties, the Lib Dems and the Greens are both expecting strong results.
Candidates to watch:
As incumbent Labour MEPs Mary Honeyball and Lucy Anderson are not running this time, there is a potential vacancy for Labour candidates hoping to replace them. Competition over who should get these places has already created an internal proxy war of sorts within the party, with fierce fighting between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn. The party’s final list saw Katy Clark, Corbyn’s former political secretary, getting third position ahead of Laura Parker, national coordinator for Momentum. However, this scramble for the third position in Labour’s MEP list may end up being in vain, with polls suggesting that the party might only retain two of its current four seats in London.
Irina von Wiese of the Lib Dems will also be hoping to gain a seat, whilst Gerard Batten, the Ukip leader will be fighting to keep hold of his, having recently admitted in an interview with Sophy Ridge that it would ‘be untenable… to continue as leader’ if he lost his seat in London. On the Remain side, former Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler will be standing for Change UK as one of the party’s biggest names.
Catherine Mayer, co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party, will also be hoping to cause an upset, whilst Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam will be standing as an independent and hoping to win votes from environmentally concerned London voters.
Labour – 2
Ukip – 1
Poll Predictions:
Brexit Party – 2
Labour – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
In the Brexit referendum, 58 per cent of the electorate and all of the region’s constituencies, except Newcastle, came out in favour of Leave. With only three MEPs, the North East is, along with Northern Ireland, the region with the smallest number of European representatives meaning its seats will be tightly contested.
Candidates to watch:
Incumbent Labour MEPs Jude Kirton-Darling and Paul Brannen will be defending their seats, however, they will face strong opposition from the Brexit party, with Brian Monteith, former Conservative member of Scottish Parliament, leading the charge for Farage.
Labour will also be facing strong challenges from parties backing a second referendum with Frances Weetman, who quit the Labour Party over concerns about anti-Semitism, now standing as a representative for Change UK, and Fiona Hall of the Lib Dems, both expected to do well.
Ukip – 3
Labour – 3
Conservative – 2
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 3
Labour – 3
Lib Dems – 1
Green Party – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
The North West had three MEPs, including former leader Paul Nuttall, who were elected for Ukip but have since left and will not be contending their seats. The Brexit party will be hoping to make some real progress in the North West and libertarian Claire Fox is Farage’s headline candidate.
Candidates to watch:
Labour MEPs Theresa Griffin, Julie Ward and Wajid Iltaf Kham will all be hoping to retain their seats and Conservative Sajjad Karim is similarly standing for re-election, but could be under threat from Chris Davies of the Lib Dems. The controversial founder of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson will also be standing in the region.
Sinn Féin – 1
DUP – 1
UUP – 1
Poll Predictions:
Sinn Féin – 1
DUP – 1
Alliance Party – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
The voting system in Northern Ireland operates slightly differently to the rest of the UK. It uses a single transferrable vote system where voters can rank their candidates in order of preference.
Candidates to watch:
Northern Ireland elects 3 MEPs, and both Diane Dodds of the DUP (and wife of the party’s Westminster leader Nigel Dodds), and Martina Anderson of Sinn Féin appear likely to hold their seats. However, with Ulster Union’s James Nicholson standing down from his position there will definitely be at least one new MEP for Northern Ireland, and opinion polls are strongly suggesting that this will be the Alliance Party’s Naomi Long.
SNP – 2
Labour – 2
Conservative – 1
Ukip – 1
Poll predictions:
SNP – 3
Brexit Party – 1
Labour – 1
Lib Dem – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
Scotland voted 62 per cent in favour of remaining in the European Union and remain-backing parties will be expecting good results, especially the SNP. Many SNP politicians have also been advocating for a second Scottish referendum, and a strong outcome for the party in the European elections would certainly strengthen Nicola Sturgeon’s hand in calling for one.
Candidates to watch:
Alyn Smith the leading SNP candidate expects to keep his seat. The Brexit party has also touched on the topic of a second Scottish independence referendum with lead candidate Louis Stedman-Bryce saying that Nigel Farage’s party ‘would not stand in the way of an independence referendum’. The Lib Dems lost their only MEP seat in Scotland in 2014 to Ukip’s David Coburn and will be hoping to win it back.
Ukip – 4
Conservatives – 3
Labour – 1
Lib Dem – 1
Green – 1
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 4
Lib Dems – 2
Labour – 2
Conservatives – 1
Green Party – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
The South East is the largest and most populated of the electoral regions and accordingly has the most MEPs. It will be one of the most important electoral battlegrounds and there are four former Ukip seats up for grabs.
Candidates to watch:
The South East will play host to a clash of titans between Brexit party leader Nigel Farage and high-profile Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan. Although Farage hit the headlines yesterday after having a milkshake thrown over him, his popularity appears undented in the South East and his party is expected to win at least four seats.
Interestingly, there are two candidates standing in the South East Region with the name of Alexandra Phillips. One is the lead candidate for the Greens, and the other the second candidate for the Brexit party. Amusingly, based on current polling they are both likely to win a seat – a potential cause of confusion in the EU parliament.
The complete guide to the European Elections
Ben Mannings and Peter Chappell
23 May 2019
The Spectator
The results of the European elections will be declared at 10pm tonight. Both the Conservatives and Labour are anticipating bad results, while Ukip, which secured 24 seats in 2014, is expected to implode. The Brexit party is tipped to win – but the extent of its victory will be an important barometer on public support for leaving the EU.
The UK has 73 seats in the European parliament, and there are currently 72 MEPs in their posts, 43 of whom will be seeking re-election on Thursday. Fighting them for the seats will be 548 new candidates, many coming from the new Brexit and Change UK parties.
You can see a full list of all the candidates the parties put forward here.
The voting system
For the European elections the UK is broken into 12 electoral regions, with each MEP serving as a representative to all of their region’s residents. Unlike the First Past the Post system used in General Elections, the D’Hondt System will be used, which works this way:
First, all the parties put forward a list of candidates to stand in each region, ranked in their preferred order. The candidate at the top of their list will be the first to take a seat if the party gets enough votes. In the polling booth, voters only select their preferred party, rather than individual candidates.
First round: The party which gains the most votes in a region wins a seat for the candidate at the top of their list.
Second round: The wining party’s vote is then divided by the number of seats they then have + 1. So if a party wins the first seat, their vote will be divided by two (one seat + 1). After the last round winner’s votes have been divided, the total votes are then reordered, and the party now at the top of the list will gain a seat.
Third round: Once again the party which has just won a seat has its total votes divided by one + the number of seats it has so far, and the results are again reordered – this process repeats itself until all the seats have been filled.
What will happen to MEPs if/when we leave the EU?
When (or if) the UK leaves the European Union, the European Parliament will reduce the number of its seats from the current 751 to 705. This means that 46 of the UK’s 73 seats will be removed, and 27 will be redistributed to ‘under-represented’ countries.
Odds:
The Brexit party are favourites to win the most seats in the election, with Ladbrokes putting their chances at 1/50. The Conservatives, meanwhile, are a staggering 100/1 to win the most seats this time. To put that into context Nigel Farage is 20/1 to become the next Prime Minister and the Queen is 80/1 to take up permanent residency in Ireland in 2019.
Guide to the regions:
East Midlands – 5 MEPs
2014 results:
Ukip – 2
Conservatives – 2
Labour – 1
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 3
Labour – 1
Conservatives – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
In the East Midlands, 58.8 per cent of the region’s residents voted in favour of leaving the European Union in 2016. Leave supporting candidates will therefore be expecting to do well, especially the new Brexit party who will hope to take seats from both the Conservatives and Ukip. The two incumbent Ukip MEPs for the region Jonathan Bullock and Margot Parker have already switched their allegiance to Farage’s new party, with Bullock set to run as a Brexit MEP for the region this time around.
Candidates to watch:
The headline candidate for the region will be the Brexit party’s Annunziata Rees-Mogg. Sister of Tory Brexiteer Jacob and former Conservative parliamentary candidate herself, Annunziata has been one of the highest profile names to stand for the new Brexit party and is expected to be the first candidate in the region to secure a seat.
Current Conservative MEPs Emma McClarkin and Rupert Matthews are defending their seats but will be in danger of losing them to the Brexit party. Rory Palmer for Labour will also be standing again, whilst veteran MEP Bill Newton Dunn, formerly of the Conservatives, will be hoping to siphon off the region’s Remain voters for the Lib Dems.
Eastern Region – 7 MEPs
2014 results:
Ukip – 3
Conservatives – 3
Labour – 1
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 4
Lib Dems – 1
Labour – 1
Conservatives – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
With 56.5 per cent of the electorate voting in favour of leaving the EU in 2016, the Brexit party is hoping for one of its largest wins in the region, and expects to pick up all three of Ukip’s former seats.
Candidates to watch:
Richard Tice, the Brexit party’s lead candidate for the region will be expecting big gains. Geoffrey van Orden and John Flack will be contesting their seats for the Conservatives, but it is unlikely that they will both win. Labour MEP Alex Mayer will be hoping to hold onto his seat, whilst Stuart Agnew is one of only three MEPs for Ukip out of the 24 elected in 2014 who will be standing again for the party.
London Region – 8 MEPs
2014 results:
Labour – 4
Conservative – 2
Ukip – 1
Green – 1
Poll Predictions:
Labour – 2
Brexit Party – 2
Lib Dems – 2
Green Party – 1
Conservatives – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
Currently, Labour occupy four seats in the region, while the Conservatives have two, and Ukip and the Greens have one. Whilst Labour are expected to lose out, with 59.9 per cent of London voting in favour of Remain parties, the Lib Dems and the Greens are both expecting strong results.
Candidates to watch:
As incumbent Labour MEPs Mary Honeyball and Lucy Anderson are not running this time, there is a potential vacancy for Labour candidates hoping to replace them. Competition over who should get these places has already created an internal proxy war of sorts within the party, with fierce fighting between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn. The party’s final list saw Katy Clark, Corbyn’s former political secretary, getting third position ahead of Laura Parker, national coordinator for Momentum. However, this scramble for the third position in Labour’s MEP list may end up being in vain, with polls suggesting that the party might only retain two of its current four seats in London.
Irina von Wiese of the Lib Dems will also be hoping to gain a seat, whilst Gerard Batten, the Ukip leader will be fighting to keep hold of his, having recently admitted in an interview with Sophy Ridge that it would ‘be untenable… to continue as leader’ if he lost his seat in London. On the Remain side, former Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler will be standing for Change UK as one of the party’s biggest names.
Catherine Mayer, co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party, will also be hoping to cause an upset, whilst Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam will be standing as an independent and hoping to win votes from environmentally concerned London voters.
North East Region – 3 MEPs
2014 results:
Labour – 2
Ukip – 1
Poll Predictions:
Brexit Party – 2
Labour – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
In the Brexit referendum, 58 per cent of the electorate and all of the region’s constituencies, except Newcastle, came out in favour of Leave. With only three MEPs, the North East is, along with Northern Ireland, the region with the smallest number of European representatives meaning its seats will be tightly contested.
Candidates to watch:
Incumbent Labour MEPs Jude Kirton-Darling and Paul Brannen will be defending their seats, however, they will face strong opposition from the Brexit party, with Brian Monteith, former Conservative member of Scottish Parliament, leading the charge for Farage.
Labour will also be facing strong challenges from parties backing a second referendum with Frances Weetman, who quit the Labour Party over concerns about anti-Semitism, now standing as a representative for Change UK, and Fiona Hall of the Lib Dems, both expected to do well.
North West Region – 8 MEPs
2014 results:
Ukip – 3
Labour – 3
Conservative – 2
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 3
Labour – 3
Lib Dems – 1
Green Party – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
The North West had three MEPs, including former leader Paul Nuttall, who were elected for Ukip but have since left and will not be contending their seats. The Brexit party will be hoping to make some real progress in the North West and libertarian Claire Fox is Farage’s headline candidate.
Candidates to watch:
Labour MEPs Theresa Griffin, Julie Ward and Wajid Iltaf Kham will all be hoping to retain their seats and Conservative Sajjad Karim is similarly standing for re-election, but could be under threat from Chris Davies of the Lib Dems. The controversial founder of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson will also be standing in the region.
Northern Ireland – 3 MEPs
2014 results:
Sinn Féin – 1
DUP – 1
UUP – 1
Poll Predictions:
Sinn Féin – 1
DUP – 1
Alliance Party – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
The voting system in Northern Ireland operates slightly differently to the rest of the UK. It uses a single transferrable vote system where voters can rank their candidates in order of preference.
Candidates to watch:
Northern Ireland elects 3 MEPs, and both Diane Dodds of the DUP (and wife of the party’s Westminster leader Nigel Dodds), and Martina Anderson of Sinn Féin appear likely to hold their seats. However, with Ulster Union’s James Nicholson standing down from his position there will definitely be at least one new MEP for Northern Ireland, and opinion polls are strongly suggesting that this will be the Alliance Party’s Naomi Long.
Scotland – 6 MEPs
2014 results:
SNP – 2
Labour – 2
Conservative – 1
Ukip – 1
Poll predictions:
SNP – 3
Brexit Party – 1
Labour – 1
Lib Dem – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
Scotland voted 62 per cent in favour of remaining in the European Union and remain-backing parties will be expecting good results, especially the SNP. Many SNP politicians have also been advocating for a second Scottish referendum, and a strong outcome for the party in the European elections would certainly strengthen Nicola Sturgeon’s hand in calling for one.
Candidates to watch:
Alyn Smith the leading SNP candidate expects to keep his seat. The Brexit party has also touched on the topic of a second Scottish independence referendum with lead candidate Louis Stedman-Bryce saying that Nigel Farage’s party ‘would not stand in the way of an independence referendum’. The Lib Dems lost their only MEP seat in Scotland in 2014 to Ukip’s David Coburn and will be hoping to win it back.
South East Region – 10 MEPs
2014 results:
Ukip – 4
Conservatives – 3
Labour – 1
Lib Dem – 1
Green – 1
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 4
Lib Dems – 2
Labour – 2
Conservatives – 1
Green Party – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
The South East is the largest and most populated of the electoral regions and accordingly has the most MEPs. It will be one of the most important electoral battlegrounds and there are four former Ukip seats up for grabs.
Candidates to watch:
The South East will play host to a clash of titans between Brexit party leader Nigel Farage and high-profile Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan. Although Farage hit the headlines yesterday after having a milkshake thrown over him, his popularity appears undented in the South East and his party is expected to win at least four seats.
Interestingly, there are two candidates standing in the South East Region with the name of Alexandra Phillips. One is the lead candidate for the Greens, and the other the second candidate for the Brexit party. Amusingly, based on current polling they are both likely to win a seat – a potential cause of confusion in the EU parliament.
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South West and Gibraltar Region – 6 MEPs
2014 results:
Ukip – 2
Conservatives – 2
Labour – 1
Green – 1
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 3
Labour – 2
Lib Dems – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
Although the Brexit party will again be expected to do well in the South West and Gibraltar, this could also be one of the places which witnesses a Brexit backlash, and remain backing parties are expected to also do well.
Candidates to watch:
The South West will also feature some star contenders. Former Conservative shadow home secretary and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Ann Widdecombe is the lead candidate for the Brexit party, while Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris and former Lib Dem MP is the number one candidate for Change UK. Andrew Adonis, who has previously said ‘if you want Brexit don’t vote Labour’, is the number two candidate for Labour.
Molly Scott Cato will be hoping to retain her seat for the Greens, with Ashley Fox and Clare Moody hoping to do the same for the Conservatives and Labour. Controversial Ukip member Carl Benjamin will also be standing in the region, but as the party’s second candidate is unlikely to be elected. 21 years old Gibraltarian Luke Stagnetto is a student at the University of Bristol and will be the youngest candidate standing in the European elections. However, at number six in the list for the Lib Dems, it’s extremely unlikely that he’ll win a seat.
Wales – 4 MEPs
2014 results:
Labour – 1
Ukip – 1
Conservatives – 1
Plaid Cymru – 1
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 2
Labour – 1
Plaid Cymru – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
As in the rest of the country, the Brexit party is expected to do well in Wales, with recent polling by ITV suggesting Farage’s party could win up to 36 per cent of the vote. Remarkably though, the polling put Labour in third place (dropping from 30 to 15 per cent) behind the Remain backing Plaid Cymru. If you’re looking for clues about what Labour’s Brexit position will be after the election, Wales will be one to watch on Sunday night.
Candidates to watch:
Incumbent Ukip MEP Nathan Gill has switched allegiance to the Brexit party and will be standing as their lead candidate. Plaid Cymru candidate Jill Evans will be the only other candidate defend her seat and Change UK will be led by former Labour MP for Cardiff Jon Owen Jones.
West Midlands – 7 MEPs
2014 results:
Ukip – 3
Labour – 2
Conservatives – 2
Poll predictions:
Brexit Party – 3
Labour – 1
Green Party – 1
Conservatives – 1
Lib Dems – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
At 59.3 per cent the West Midlands had the highest proportion of Leave voters in the UK, and Brexit supporting parties are expected to do well. Both Labour and the Conservatives are expected to lose seats in the region.
Candidates to watch:
Incumbent MEPs Neena Gill and Sion Simon of Labour, and Anthea McIntyre and Daniel Dalton of the Conservatives will be defending their seats against the Brexit party, led in the region by former chairman of Southampton football club, Rupert Lowe. On the Remain side, Lib Dem MEP Phil Bennion will be hoping to regain the seat he lost in 2014.
Yorkshire and the Humber – 6 MEPs
2014 results:
Ukip – 2
Conservative – 2
Labour – 2
Poll Predictions:
Brexit Party – 3
Labour – 2
Lib Dems – 1
(via the Telegraph)
What to expect:
57.7 per cent of theYorkshire and the Humber voted to leave the EU and the Brexit party is again expecting to do well here. The region will also see the Yorkshire party, who could cause an upset, fielding six candidates.
Candidates to watch:
In Yorkshire and the Humber, John Longworth, co-founder of Leave means Leave will be the Brexit party’s main candidate. Amjad Bashir, formerly of Ukip, but now an MEP for the Conservatives will be hoping to maintain his seat.
Staunch Remainer, and Best for Britain CEO and founding member Eloise Todd is the number two candidate for Labour. There could also be a surprise win for former Lord Mayor of Sheffield Magid ‘Magic’ Magid of the Greens. Interestingly, the English Democrats will also be putting forward four candidates with the surname Allen.
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No. Theresa May and the other Remainers have already done that.
Johnson will sort it. But my preferred candidate for the next Prime Minister is right-wing former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, who is standing to be the next PM.
The son of a Czechoslovakian Jew who fled the Nazis, he was interviewed on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show this morning and put forward his policies: He said he would leave the EU on or before 31st October with or without a deal. He said that £25 billion of the £39 billion Britain would save for a No Deal would instead go towards boosting British business. He also took a swipe at feminists and feminism, saying that men "get a raw deal."
If Raab becomes PM, it'll be something else for the SJWs to complain about.
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The EU election is the Western world's largest democratic vote.
The EU has a population - for the time being - of 508 million, of which 400 million people are eligible to vote, 47 million in Britain.
The first two member states to vote were Britain and the Netherlands on Thursday, with the rest voting in the subsequent three days. The final polling stations will close tonight after which the results will start coming in.
The EU has a population - for the time being - of 508 million, of which 400 million people are eligible to vote, 47 million in Britain.
The first two member states to vote were Britain and the Netherlands on Thursday, with the rest voting in the subsequent three days. The final polling stations will close tonight after which the results will start coming in.
So who do you think should be the next PM?
Remember, the government needs to deliver Brexit or it will spell the end of the Conservative Party, the world's most successful political party and probably its oldest.
So, ideally for the Tories and democracy, it needs to be a hardcore Brexiteer.
It's going to be Boris and the whole place will get so muddle-fukced that you'll be voting in a general election before October 31st, the Tory's will be turfed out and will finish 4th in the polling and you'll have Jeremy Corbin as your PM as you Brexit ... or not.
1) I don't think it will be Boris. He's the frontrunner and the frontrunner rarely wins the Tory leadership. I think it'll be Raab.
2) As for Corbyn - who's been a Brexiteer for decades, of course - I don't think he'll win a General Election. If there's one soon, I think it will end in a Hung Parliament, with Labour the largest party and the Brexit Party the second-largest. That means there may have to be another Coailition Government, like the Tory-Lib Dem one between 2010 and 2015. But it won't be necessarily involve Corbyn's Labour - just two or more parties that are willing to form a coalition together. Another could likely involve the Brexit Party. So there could be a Labour-Brexit coalition government, or a Tory-Brexit coalition government. We could then maybe have Farage in charge of the UK's Brexit team. He'll sort it.
Bring me sunshine, bring me BREXIT: RICHARD LITTLEJOHN calls on voters to teach the out-of-touch Westminster rabble a lesson in the EU elections
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
21 May 2019
Lakeside Country Club in Surrey is probably best-known these days as the home of the World Darts Championship.
It was featured in that classic, knockabout episode of The Sweeney, starring Morecambe and Wise, and over the years has showcased everyone from Tommy Cooper to The Two Ronnies.
Lakeside is also said to be the model for Peter Kay's brilliant Northern variety club spoof Phoenix Nights. If there's a retro feel about the place, that's no bad thing. As Michael Parkinson once said: 'You meet a better class of person down Memory Lane.'
On Sunday night, Nigel Farage topped the bill at a sold-out Brexit Party rally at Lakeside. A full house of 1,600 people cheered Farage and his fellow candidates to the rafters. I only know about it because one of my friends, Robert Rowland, is standing for the Brexit Party alongside Farage in the South East, and was chosen to make the opening address.
You won't have seen coverage of the rally on the BBC. Or anywhere else, for that matter. The mainstream broadcast media spend most of their time belittling the Brexit Party, when they are not ignoring it altogether. So do the arrogant, professional politicians from the traditional parties, who kid themselves that once Thursday's 'protest vote' is out of the way, it will be back to business as usual.
But out in the country, something remarkable is happening. From the North-East of England to the South-West, people who have never taken much of an interest in politics are flocking to Brexit Party rallies.
They've had enough of being patronised, of being dismissed as thick racists who are too stupid to know what they are voting for.
They are throwing their support behind sincere men and women from all walks of life and backgrounds who have put their careers and families on hold to take on the political Establishment.
My friend Robert Rowland is a 50-something father-of-four, ex-RAF, who made a few bob in finance. He has never played an active role in politics before. But he subscribes to the philosophy of Edmund Burke: all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Nigel Farage is expecting a big victory in the EU elections this week
Robert decided it was time to stand up and be counted.
So have countless other good men and women, who put themselves forward as Brexit Party candidates — from former dyed-in-the-wool Tory businessmen to old-school Lefties such as Claire Fox.
They have an extensive range of real-life experience, utterly divorced from the narrowly drawn ranks of the careerist mediocrities who inhabit the Westminster bubble.
Farage's Brexit Party slate is far more diverse than any of the grim indentikit clones on offer from the Tories, Labour or the Lib Dems.
They are free from the stench of institutionalised decay and entitlement, which clings to the other parties like a cheap suit — No Change UK, included.
As this column has consistently maintained, this is about much more than Britain's relationship with the EU. If the political class gets away with stopping Brexit, or watering it down to the point where it is meaningless, we will have ceased to be a proper, functioning democracy.
The Conservatives, under May, and the duplicitous Labour Party, under Corbyn, have lied consistently about their true plans. They never had any intention of honouring the result of the 2016 referendum.
As for the risible Lib Dems, they are neither liberal nor democratic. They hold the electorate in contempt. Do any of these creeps ever set foot outside their own little echo chamber?
If they did, some of them might begin to realise just how much they are loathed by a sizeable proportion of the population they purport to represent.
For instance, Lakeside sits slap-dab in the middle of the South East super-constituency, which stretches from Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire to the South Coast, to the Channel Ports and the London/Kent border.
Boris Johnson is the 'people's choice' for Prime Minister but his Tory colleagues have threatened to ensure his name is kept off the ballot
These are the so-called Tory shires, yet everywhere voters are deserting in droves. At the local elections, the Conservatives even lost control of true blue Guildford.
With opinion polls showing Tory support below 10 per cent nationally, the party faces a wipeout on Thursday. It will be a kicking they richly deserve. From Mother Theresa downwards, few outside the ranks of the Brexiteers seem to have any idea what is happening in the real world.
The Prime Minister's delusional response to the rise of the Brexit Party and the Tories' freefall in the polls is to bring back her utterly discredited 'deal' for a fourth time and offer still further concessions to Labour, in the hope that she can get it over the line in the Commons.
Nurse!
Never mind the Men In Grey Suits, who keep putting off the coup de grâce. It's time to send for the Men In White Coats. They're coming to take me away, ha-ha!
Meanwhile, Tory Remainiacs continue to sneer at those who want a proper Brexit. Amber Rudd and Bunter Soames accuse people of 'clinging to a comfort blanket of populism'. Dear Pot, love Kettle.
If anyone is clinging to a comfort blanket, it's those who are scared to let go of the suffocating embrace of the anti-democratic EU.
Meanwhile, that extinct, europhile volcano Michael Heseltine complains that Brexiteers have been infected by the 'virus of extremism'.
Theresa May is continuing to double down on her Brexit deal, totally unaware it is completely discredited
Oh, for heaven's sake. Grow up, Tarzan. What's 'extreme' about wanting to live in a truly independent country, which Britain always was until patrician politicians like Heseltine dragged us ever deeper into the EU?
Anyway, the 'extremists' throwing milkshakes at Nigel Farage aren't drawn from the ranks of those who voted Leave. Nor are those who refuse to accept the legitimate result of the referendum. You can bet, too, that even if the Brexit Party polls 35 per cent plus on Thursday, as predicted, Remainers will still say it proves nothing. The result will be dismissed as an inchoate scream from ignorant xenophobes.
Some voters might be howling at the moon, but who can blame them? Look at the way millions of traditional Labour supporters in the North are being betrayed by Corbyn's metropolitan Momentum crowd and full-on federasts like No Brexit spokesman Keir Stürmer and the preposterous Pixie Balls-Cooper.
Corbyn is even coming down in favour of freedom of movement and a second referendum. That should play well in Phoenix Nights country. We can only hope a Brexit Party landslide brings the political class to its senses. But don't hold your breath.
Having done all they can to stop Brexit, Tory Remainers are now moving heaven and earth to keep Boris, the People's Choice, off the ballot to succeed May. They must be insane. Boris should have got the job after the referendum.
When they're not polishing their own leadership credentials, Boris's rivals claim to be worried that he might do a deal with Farage. But if the two most popular men in British politics could put their inter-planetary personalities aside, what would be wrong with that?
Fossilised Michael Heseltine has complained that Brexiteers have been infected by the 'virus of extremism'
Both played pivotal roles in delivering the Leave vote in 2016. And both actually believe in Brexit. (Well, I think Boris does, but you never know.)
What's more, they share an optimistic view of Britain's future, confident we can thrive in the global economy once we have cast off the shackles of Brussels.
At least, like Morecambe and Wise, they might bring us some sunshine, unlike the remorseless, defeatist drivel we have been force-fed by May and the rest of the political class for the past few years.
But first, at the risk of sounding like Boris, we must cleanse the Augean stables. And that will only be achieved by casting millions of votes for the Brexit Party.
Sorry, but I don't buy the argument that voting Brexit will let in Corbyn. Labour is thoroughly discredited, too, and has as much to lose at this election as the Tories.
And, anyway, what kind of a pitch is: vote for us because we're not as rubbish as the other lot?
As Mrs Thatcher said in 1979, people should vote Conservative because they can do better than Labour — not because they couldn't do any worse.
Maybe a Brexit Party landslide will lead to a long-overdue political realignment and usher in a new breed, like my mate Robert Rowland, who actually have confidence in Britain's future outside the sclerotic, corrupt, crumbling EU edifice.
This election shouldn't even be happening. It's only taking place because of the abject, deliberate failure of the political class to respect the democratic will of the British people, in the biggest vote for anything, ever.
But it affords us a heaven-sent opportunity to tell the out-of-touch Westminster rabble and their hangers-on where to get off.
Don't waste it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...TTLEJOHN-calls-voters-ahead-EU-elections.html
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
21 May 2019
Lakeside Country Club in Surrey is probably best-known these days as the home of the World Darts Championship.
It was featured in that classic, knockabout episode of The Sweeney, starring Morecambe and Wise, and over the years has showcased everyone from Tommy Cooper to The Two Ronnies.
Lakeside is also said to be the model for Peter Kay's brilliant Northern variety club spoof Phoenix Nights. If there's a retro feel about the place, that's no bad thing. As Michael Parkinson once said: 'You meet a better class of person down Memory Lane.'
On Sunday night, Nigel Farage topped the bill at a sold-out Brexit Party rally at Lakeside. A full house of 1,600 people cheered Farage and his fellow candidates to the rafters. I only know about it because one of my friends, Robert Rowland, is standing for the Brexit Party alongside Farage in the South East, and was chosen to make the opening address.
You won't have seen coverage of the rally on the BBC. Or anywhere else, for that matter. The mainstream broadcast media spend most of their time belittling the Brexit Party, when they are not ignoring it altogether. So do the arrogant, professional politicians from the traditional parties, who kid themselves that once Thursday's 'protest vote' is out of the way, it will be back to business as usual.
But out in the country, something remarkable is happening. From the North-East of England to the South-West, people who have never taken much of an interest in politics are flocking to Brexit Party rallies.
They've had enough of being patronised, of being dismissed as thick racists who are too stupid to know what they are voting for.
They are throwing their support behind sincere men and women from all walks of life and backgrounds who have put their careers and families on hold to take on the political Establishment.
My friend Robert Rowland is a 50-something father-of-four, ex-RAF, who made a few bob in finance. He has never played an active role in politics before. But he subscribes to the philosophy of Edmund Burke: all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Nigel Farage is expecting a big victory in the EU elections this week
Robert decided it was time to stand up and be counted.
So have countless other good men and women, who put themselves forward as Brexit Party candidates — from former dyed-in-the-wool Tory businessmen to old-school Lefties such as Claire Fox.
They have an extensive range of real-life experience, utterly divorced from the narrowly drawn ranks of the careerist mediocrities who inhabit the Westminster bubble.
Farage's Brexit Party slate is far more diverse than any of the grim indentikit clones on offer from the Tories, Labour or the Lib Dems.
They are free from the stench of institutionalised decay and entitlement, which clings to the other parties like a cheap suit — No Change UK, included.
As this column has consistently maintained, this is about much more than Britain's relationship with the EU. If the political class gets away with stopping Brexit, or watering it down to the point where it is meaningless, we will have ceased to be a proper, functioning democracy.
The Conservatives, under May, and the duplicitous Labour Party, under Corbyn, have lied consistently about their true plans. They never had any intention of honouring the result of the 2016 referendum.
As for the risible Lib Dems, they are neither liberal nor democratic. They hold the electorate in contempt. Do any of these creeps ever set foot outside their own little echo chamber?
If they did, some of them might begin to realise just how much they are loathed by a sizeable proportion of the population they purport to represent.
For instance, Lakeside sits slap-dab in the middle of the South East super-constituency, which stretches from Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire to the South Coast, to the Channel Ports and the London/Kent border.
Boris Johnson is the 'people's choice' for Prime Minister but his Tory colleagues have threatened to ensure his name is kept off the ballot
These are the so-called Tory shires, yet everywhere voters are deserting in droves. At the local elections, the Conservatives even lost control of true blue Guildford.
With opinion polls showing Tory support below 10 per cent nationally, the party faces a wipeout on Thursday. It will be a kicking they richly deserve. From Mother Theresa downwards, few outside the ranks of the Brexiteers seem to have any idea what is happening in the real world.
The Prime Minister's delusional response to the rise of the Brexit Party and the Tories' freefall in the polls is to bring back her utterly discredited 'deal' for a fourth time and offer still further concessions to Labour, in the hope that she can get it over the line in the Commons.
Nurse!
Never mind the Men In Grey Suits, who keep putting off the coup de grâce. It's time to send for the Men In White Coats. They're coming to take me away, ha-ha!
Meanwhile, Tory Remainiacs continue to sneer at those who want a proper Brexit. Amber Rudd and Bunter Soames accuse people of 'clinging to a comfort blanket of populism'. Dear Pot, love Kettle.
If anyone is clinging to a comfort blanket, it's those who are scared to let go of the suffocating embrace of the anti-democratic EU.
Meanwhile, that extinct, europhile volcano Michael Heseltine complains that Brexiteers have been infected by the 'virus of extremism'.
Theresa May is continuing to double down on her Brexit deal, totally unaware it is completely discredited
Oh, for heaven's sake. Grow up, Tarzan. What's 'extreme' about wanting to live in a truly independent country, which Britain always was until patrician politicians like Heseltine dragged us ever deeper into the EU?
Anyway, the 'extremists' throwing milkshakes at Nigel Farage aren't drawn from the ranks of those who voted Leave. Nor are those who refuse to accept the legitimate result of the referendum. You can bet, too, that even if the Brexit Party polls 35 per cent plus on Thursday, as predicted, Remainers will still say it proves nothing. The result will be dismissed as an inchoate scream from ignorant xenophobes.
Some voters might be howling at the moon, but who can blame them? Look at the way millions of traditional Labour supporters in the North are being betrayed by Corbyn's metropolitan Momentum crowd and full-on federasts like No Brexit spokesman Keir Stürmer and the preposterous Pixie Balls-Cooper.
Corbyn is even coming down in favour of freedom of movement and a second referendum. That should play well in Phoenix Nights country. We can only hope a Brexit Party landslide brings the political class to its senses. But don't hold your breath.
Having done all they can to stop Brexit, Tory Remainers are now moving heaven and earth to keep Boris, the People's Choice, off the ballot to succeed May. They must be insane. Boris should have got the job after the referendum.
When they're not polishing their own leadership credentials, Boris's rivals claim to be worried that he might do a deal with Farage. But if the two most popular men in British politics could put their inter-planetary personalities aside, what would be wrong with that?
Fossilised Michael Heseltine has complained that Brexiteers have been infected by the 'virus of extremism'
Both played pivotal roles in delivering the Leave vote in 2016. And both actually believe in Brexit. (Well, I think Boris does, but you never know.)
What's more, they share an optimistic view of Britain's future, confident we can thrive in the global economy once we have cast off the shackles of Brussels.
At least, like Morecambe and Wise, they might bring us some sunshine, unlike the remorseless, defeatist drivel we have been force-fed by May and the rest of the political class for the past few years.
But first, at the risk of sounding like Boris, we must cleanse the Augean stables. And that will only be achieved by casting millions of votes for the Brexit Party.
Sorry, but I don't buy the argument that voting Brexit will let in Corbyn. Labour is thoroughly discredited, too, and has as much to lose at this election as the Tories.
And, anyway, what kind of a pitch is: vote for us because we're not as rubbish as the other lot?
As Mrs Thatcher said in 1979, people should vote Conservative because they can do better than Labour — not because they couldn't do any worse.
Maybe a Brexit Party landslide will lead to a long-overdue political realignment and usher in a new breed, like my mate Robert Rowland, who actually have confidence in Britain's future outside the sclerotic, corrupt, crumbling EU edifice.
This election shouldn't even be happening. It's only taking place because of the abject, deliberate failure of the political class to respect the democratic will of the British people, in the biggest vote for anything, ever.
But it affords us a heaven-sent opportunity to tell the out-of-touch Westminster rabble and their hangers-on where to get off.
Don't waste it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...TTLEJOHN-calls-voters-ahead-EU-elections.html
Breaking News: EU election national projections announced
Brexit Party victory.
Lowest ever share of vote for the Conservative Party in a nationwide ballot. Could finish fifth.
Leaver Daniel Hannan, Tory MEP for the South East, warns the Tories could face "total wipeout" and could be left with "zero MEPs"
In Germany, meanwhile, Merkel's party faces heavy losses
Brexit Party victory.
Lowest ever share of vote for the Conservative Party in a nationwide ballot. Could finish fifth.
Leaver Daniel Hannan, Tory MEP for the South East, warns the Tories could face "total wipeout" and could be left with "zero MEPs"
In Germany, meanwhile, Merkel's party faces heavy losses
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We Frexiteers across the Channel share in your struggle for freedom from the EU
Dimitri de Vismes is a representative of the French UPR party in the UK and candidate for the 2019 EU election.
“Today we came here to partake in a political fight with our British Brexiteer friends”.
With these words, François Asselineau, the leader and founder of the UPR (Republican Popular Union), the French pro-Frexit party, kicked off the rally held in Central London on 29th March 2019, which gathered together nearly seven hundred French people supporting the 52% of British people who voted Leave, on the day Brexit was supposed to happen. You can watch it in its entirety here.
This rally, which was probably the biggest political event organised by a foreign political party in the UK since the end of WWII, had been organsied for months in the hope that Frexiteers could celebrate the official exit date of the UK from the EU in London. Several British political personalities from across the political spectrum, academics and business people accepted our invitation to speak and join us in our common fight to restore freedom and sovereignty to both our countries. Among them were Brendan Chilton (Head of Labour Leave), David Heathcoat-Amory (ex-Minister of State for Europe), Lord Hamilton of Epsom (ex-Minister of State for the Armed Forces), Kate Hoey MP (Labour), Jim Reynolds (Campaign for an Independent Britain), Sir Gerald Howarth (Leave Means Leave and ex-Minister for International Security Strategy), Dr Lee Rotherham (ex-Vote Leave), Professor Gwythian Prins (Emeritus Professor, LSE) and Lucy Harris (Founder of Leavers of Britain, and now a candidate for the Brexit Party).
Despite the obvious disappointment of not celebrating what should have been an historic milestone, the atmosphere was surprisingly warm and the British guests were impressed by the enthusiastic crowd who assembled in London to support the Leave camp. While most were from France, others came from across Europe and some even from Canada, China and the United States.
As emphasised by David Heathcoat-Amory, the decision of 17.4 million Britons was not an “isolated eccentricity” but instead part of a Europe-wide movement to re-establish democracy and self-government. Unfortunately, the EU does not like referendums that go the wrong way. And this is the reason why such an outcome was to be expected, according to Brendan Chilton. In reality, this attempt to reject the result of a popular vote against the EU was not the first: in 1994, the Norwegian people were called to vote for the European Union, having rejected it once in 1972. It was the same for the Danish people who were asked to vote for a second time after they initially rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. In 2001 the Irish people said “No” by referendum to the Treaty of Nice and then “No” in 2008 to the Treaty of Lisbon. On both occasions they were forced to correct their “errors”. We should also mention the votes by referendum against the EU Constitution in 2005 in France and the Netherlands where both results were finally ignored. The history of the EU is characterised by a disdain for democracy.
“The EU is not un-democratic: it is anti-democratic. So the only solution is not to reform: it is to leave the EU”, said David Heathcoat-Amory, reminding us of the impossibility of changing the EU (that would mean abrogating Article 48 of the Treaty of the EU which requires that decisions must be taken unanimously between the 28 member states of the EU). If you want democracy, one must have the “independent self-governing nation state” and this is exactly what the EU is trying to dismantle – “not by violence, not by force but by bureaucracy, by rules, by regulation, by transferring the law making powers from the people to Brussels,” he continued. It is also worth noting that no other group of countries in the world has ever tried to replicate the EU’s model – adopting a single currency, a supreme court, a single defence policy and a law-making body for an entire continent. Instead, many alternative types of collaboration are used throughout the world: treaties, trade agreements and pacts entered into by free and sovereign countries.
But – beyond the anti-democratic aspects – what appears to be the most shocking thing is the obvious disregard, even contempt, from the EU elites for the people they govern. “When President Macron came to the UK in January 2018 he said that if a referendum was held in France, France would vote to leave the EU and of course that means he will not call in a referendum,” noted Lord Hamilton. As stated in Article 2 of the French Constitution, the nation state is “the government of the people, by the people, for the people” – our leaders seem to have forgotten this. Similarly, Brendan Chilton related the following anecdote when a few years back Tony Blair had stood in the same room as Prime Minister and said: “Only extremists would want to leave the EU”. But the choicest example certainly came from Donald Tusk when in February 2019 he promised a “special place in hell” for “those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan”.
Such statements from EU leaders are not unusual and reflect their impunity. As Dr Lee Rotherham reminded us, no-one is accountable in the EU institutions: “Who is responsible when a bad law is made? And how do we get to change it?” For these reasons, the UK decided to take back control.
The UK leaving the bloc in a good condition is probably what the EU elite fears the most. “If we give the Brits a good deal, other countries will follow suit,” confessed M. Barnier to Tom Enders (CEO of Airbus Group) as reported by Sir Gerald Howarth, who then added:
“They are seeking to punish the UK simply to prevent other countries like France, like Italy, like the Netherlands following our example and grasping the opportunity to free themselves from this 1950’s sclerotic defunct organisation”.
France will benefit from the lessons learned on the UK side if it wants to avoid a “Treaty of Versailles” (Brendan Chilton) in reference to a Withdrawal Agreement that demands 39 thousand million pounds from British taxpayers in return for a promised vassal state status.
We are together fighting the same battle for democratic Western values that are rooted in the bedrock of our civilisation. The UPR Gaullist party – with its 37,000 activists in May 2019 – will be leading the way in France, thanks to the support of their British allies. As stated by Lord Tebbit:
“Brexit is the ultimate expression of the kind of national sovereignty that General de Gaulle understood. It is the very expression of democracy that he fought to preserve. But it is not something that we aspire to jealously guard for ourselves. We want to share our new liberty with our old friends. Join us in our escape from The Bastille of Brussels. We shall eat cake together in freedom”.
https://brexitcentral.com/we-frexit...are-in-your-struggle-for-freedom-from-the-eu/
Dimitri de Vismes is a representative of the French UPR party in the UK and candidate for the 2019 EU election.
“Today we came here to partake in a political fight with our British Brexiteer friends”.
With these words, François Asselineau, the leader and founder of the UPR (Republican Popular Union), the French pro-Frexit party, kicked off the rally held in Central London on 29th March 2019, which gathered together nearly seven hundred French people supporting the 52% of British people who voted Leave, on the day Brexit was supposed to happen. You can watch it in its entirety here.
This rally, which was probably the biggest political event organised by a foreign political party in the UK since the end of WWII, had been organsied for months in the hope that Frexiteers could celebrate the official exit date of the UK from the EU in London. Several British political personalities from across the political spectrum, academics and business people accepted our invitation to speak and join us in our common fight to restore freedom and sovereignty to both our countries. Among them were Brendan Chilton (Head of Labour Leave), David Heathcoat-Amory (ex-Minister of State for Europe), Lord Hamilton of Epsom (ex-Minister of State for the Armed Forces), Kate Hoey MP (Labour), Jim Reynolds (Campaign for an Independent Britain), Sir Gerald Howarth (Leave Means Leave and ex-Minister for International Security Strategy), Dr Lee Rotherham (ex-Vote Leave), Professor Gwythian Prins (Emeritus Professor, LSE) and Lucy Harris (Founder of Leavers of Britain, and now a candidate for the Brexit Party).
Despite the obvious disappointment of not celebrating what should have been an historic milestone, the atmosphere was surprisingly warm and the British guests were impressed by the enthusiastic crowd who assembled in London to support the Leave camp. While most were from France, others came from across Europe and some even from Canada, China and the United States.
As emphasised by David Heathcoat-Amory, the decision of 17.4 million Britons was not an “isolated eccentricity” but instead part of a Europe-wide movement to re-establish democracy and self-government. Unfortunately, the EU does not like referendums that go the wrong way. And this is the reason why such an outcome was to be expected, according to Brendan Chilton. In reality, this attempt to reject the result of a popular vote against the EU was not the first: in 1994, the Norwegian people were called to vote for the European Union, having rejected it once in 1972. It was the same for the Danish people who were asked to vote for a second time after they initially rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. In 2001 the Irish people said “No” by referendum to the Treaty of Nice and then “No” in 2008 to the Treaty of Lisbon. On both occasions they were forced to correct their “errors”. We should also mention the votes by referendum against the EU Constitution in 2005 in France and the Netherlands where both results were finally ignored. The history of the EU is characterised by a disdain for democracy.
“The EU is not un-democratic: it is anti-democratic. So the only solution is not to reform: it is to leave the EU”, said David Heathcoat-Amory, reminding us of the impossibility of changing the EU (that would mean abrogating Article 48 of the Treaty of the EU which requires that decisions must be taken unanimously between the 28 member states of the EU). If you want democracy, one must have the “independent self-governing nation state” and this is exactly what the EU is trying to dismantle – “not by violence, not by force but by bureaucracy, by rules, by regulation, by transferring the law making powers from the people to Brussels,” he continued. It is also worth noting that no other group of countries in the world has ever tried to replicate the EU’s model – adopting a single currency, a supreme court, a single defence policy and a law-making body for an entire continent. Instead, many alternative types of collaboration are used throughout the world: treaties, trade agreements and pacts entered into by free and sovereign countries.
But – beyond the anti-democratic aspects – what appears to be the most shocking thing is the obvious disregard, even contempt, from the EU elites for the people they govern. “When President Macron came to the UK in January 2018 he said that if a referendum was held in France, France would vote to leave the EU and of course that means he will not call in a referendum,” noted Lord Hamilton. As stated in Article 2 of the French Constitution, the nation state is “the government of the people, by the people, for the people” – our leaders seem to have forgotten this. Similarly, Brendan Chilton related the following anecdote when a few years back Tony Blair had stood in the same room as Prime Minister and said: “Only extremists would want to leave the EU”. But the choicest example certainly came from Donald Tusk when in February 2019 he promised a “special place in hell” for “those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan”.
Such statements from EU leaders are not unusual and reflect their impunity. As Dr Lee Rotherham reminded us, no-one is accountable in the EU institutions: “Who is responsible when a bad law is made? And how do we get to change it?” For these reasons, the UK decided to take back control.
The UK leaving the bloc in a good condition is probably what the EU elite fears the most. “If we give the Brits a good deal, other countries will follow suit,” confessed M. Barnier to Tom Enders (CEO of Airbus Group) as reported by Sir Gerald Howarth, who then added:
“They are seeking to punish the UK simply to prevent other countries like France, like Italy, like the Netherlands following our example and grasping the opportunity to free themselves from this 1950’s sclerotic defunct organisation”.
France will benefit from the lessons learned on the UK side if it wants to avoid a “Treaty of Versailles” (Brendan Chilton) in reference to a Withdrawal Agreement that demands 39 thousand million pounds from British taxpayers in return for a promised vassal state status.
We are together fighting the same battle for democratic Western values that are rooted in the bedrock of our civilisation. The UPR Gaullist party – with its 37,000 activists in May 2019 – will be leading the way in France, thanks to the support of their British allies. As stated by Lord Tebbit:
“Brexit is the ultimate expression of the kind of national sovereignty that General de Gaulle understood. It is the very expression of democracy that he fought to preserve. But it is not something that we aspire to jealously guard for ourselves. We want to share our new liberty with our old friends. Join us in our escape from The Bastille of Brussels. We shall eat cake together in freedom”.
https://brexitcentral.com/we-frexit...are-in-your-struggle-for-freedom-from-the-eu/
As long as he delivers full Brexit, then never mind.
Johnson will be a far more fun Pm than the boring Maybot:
