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Re: The European Elections
The ballot box is the one true way in a democratic society that the electorate can express it's opinion on issues of the day. Unfortunately General and local council elections usually have so many different conflicting issues that it is difficult to detect the real mood of the electorate, many of whom, if they vote at all, do so on the basis of lesser of evils. European elections are somewhat different at the moment, as effectively this vote was the closest we could get to the key single European issue. Do we want to integrate more closely with Europe or not?
It is irrelevant what proportion of the electorate get off their bacsides to vots. Everyone has that right to vote, if they choose not to express an opinion, it does not devalue the result it just, as said above, means they are content to go with the flow.
Any political party that does not take this poll result for what it was, that the electorate is wanting less rather than closer ties to Europe, is going against the wishes of democracy.
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