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

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Relatively. I think you can generalise "parties like UKIP" to "parties who aren't the government", noting that the Conservatives came first in Wales despite the Welsh Assembly being a Labour - Plaid Cymru coalition.

Getting the arguments against this in first, though, the (Scottish assembly minority administration) SNP did top the poll in Scotland, though, and centre-right governing parties did well in France, Italy, Poland [?], Germany [?? and part of a coalition there] and other places, and there wasn't really as much of a surge in popularity for anti-EU sentiment across Europe as might have been expected.