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

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

People in the UK don't understand the EU. For most people, EU elections (indeed arguably elections generally) are keyword-based. In this case, the keyword is "Europe". UKIP are a single-issue party concerning Europe, therefore they attract a disproportionate share of the vote.

There's the expenses thing, too, which bizarrely has benefited UKIP despite the fact that they appear to be responsible for the most egregious expenses scandal so far.