I don't vote, I don't pay community tax

[venta]

If we assume that:

(a) most people don't bother voting in elections[*]
(b) people are more likely to complain when they don't like something than offer praise when they do

does it follow that parties like UKIP will always do well in elections for MEPs ?

[*] Turn-out figures show that about 1 in 3 people voted in the European elections last week.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't really understand the point of voting UKIP for Europe. It seems to be a way of saying "I want out of the EU". But cleverly done in such a way that saying so cannot possibly make it happen, since obviously MEPs don't have the power to take us out of Europe.

Phew. I'm glad you said that. I'd thought exactly the same, but assumed it was just me failing to understand the electoral process (politics really isn't my strong point).

I guess UKIP could have a policy of MEPs behaving so irrationally that the European parliament is thrown into such disarray that it gives up and goes home :)

[deeteeuk.livejournal.com]

I think their stance is that the European framework should be as small as possible*, and campaign to that end. In that way, they're a little like the Tories, who would prefer "small government" wherever possible. They want government to be small, but they still want to be in it.

*Obviously, they'd rather it just didn't exist, or that we weren't in it