Caption Competition

Study this picture. It is of someone who is about to be crowned president without any proper democratic electoral process, along with Hamid Karzai.
Usual prize (i.e.- hee-haw) for the funniest caption.

Bowing to the Inevitable

The referendum replay result in Ireland was a foregone conclusion. Every major political party and companies such as Microsoft, Ryanair and Intel along with the press, trade unions and farmers groups campaigned for and financed the yes lobby.
The rag-tag of Irish nationalist and socialist groups, along with the formerly most influential body in Ireland, the [...]

Lisbon Lyin’

The citizens of the Irish Republic go to the polls today in a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Just why another referendum is necessary so soon after the country voted by a 7% margin in June 2008 to reject the treaty is baffling.
Oh! silly me! the 2008 result was the wrong one! It was the one [...]

EU Leaders Criticise Iran

The EU has spoken
About the democratic will of voters in Iran.

Don’t these Iranians get it?
You don’t allow a vote and then pochle the results.
You either don’t allow a vote in the first place or have a vote and ignore the result.

The Numbers Game

Thanks to Michael Greenwell for this.
See if you can spot one particular anomaly.

Malta = 403,532                  MEPs = 5

Luxembourg = 486,006    MEPs = 6

Cyprus = 792,604              MEPs = 6
Estonia = 1,307,605          MEPs = 6

Slovenia = 2,007,711    [...]

Eurovision

The scenes from across Europe in the build up to the elections showed what?
They showed what a diverse and divided entity the continent is.
Is there a pan European political party? just one?
Eh no and if one emerges what are the bets it’ll be with an anti EU agenda?
Is there any political consensus amongst Europeans other [...]

The Far Wrong

The Euro election results should be a wake up call not just for the Labour party but for society.
The increase in vote for reactionary far right lunatics is alarming and I’m not only talking here about the Conservative Party.
The contrast between Scotland and the rest of the UK could not be more sharply focussed. Here [...]

No to EU, Yes to Democracy

It was a protest vote.
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Do EU Care?

I listened to the Radio Scotland News this morning. The fact that the country was going to the polls for the Euro elections was in the news.
It was mentioned after the email circulating Labour MP’s about Broon, swine flu, a road accident on the M74 and a survey about sheep.
In other words not very important.
Why [...]

Number Crunching

35%  – Expected turnout for Euro elections in Scotland.
35% – Expected share from total of SNP VOTE (a 15% increase on 2004)
0% – The number of voters in Scotland given an opportunity to reject vote on the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty.