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Pro-Brexit parties (2019 definition) improved their vote share by 5.2% over 2014. Pro-Remain parties improved their vote share by 24%+ (Scottish Green data to come) Tories and Labour both got almost equally crushed. #RemainSurge #EUElectionResults2019 #EUElectionResults 
Takeaways...
- BP got largest vote share, was rewarded with most MEPs.
- We're more polarised as a country than ever.
- Elections did not give Hard Brexit a "mandate".
- Elections did not demonstrate a burning desire to "get on with Brexit".
- Labour's dead if they don't change.
- BP got largest vote share, was rewarded with most MEPs.
- We're more polarised as a country than ever.
- Elections did not give Hard Brexit a "mandate".
- Elections did not demonstrate a burning desire to "get on with Brexit".
- Labour's dead if they don't change.
- There's no "middle" between Brexit and Remain. Those pushing for a Hard Brexit will never ever compromise. As a result, Remain won't either. Which comes back to my previous point about Labour.
- Tory MPs running for leader on "no deal" platform are bickering over 35% of vote.
- Tory MPs running for leader on "no deal" platform are bickering over 35% of vote.
After the #EUelectionresults we face a Gordian knot of political difficulty.
1) Leave now means No Deal, which is unacceptable to Parliament (and was not what was promised in the Ref). Yet the Leave vote has clearly moved in this direction and may not be satisfied with any deal.
1) Leave now means No Deal, which is unacceptable to Parliament (and was not what was promised in the Ref). Yet the Leave vote has clearly moved in this direction and may not be satisfied with any deal.
2) Any Deal is vulnerable to attack from either side and therefore seems unlikely to get through Parliament or be acceptable to the Electorate as a whole, who are more sharply divided than ever. The 'Deal' parties (Con/Lab) have done terribly.
3) Yet, for many, a #PeoplesVote (Confirmatory Referendum - Lib/Greens,/Nationalists) doesn't honour the original vote outcome and seems unlikely to address the issues this #Brexit process has revealed.
Whatever happens in #EUElectionResults tonight: MEPs are elected to represent this country at the European level. They can't make No Deal happen. They can't stop Brexit. That's up to the UK Parliament and the last time we voted for that, THE UNITED KINGDOM VOTED AGAINST NO-DEAL.
So if Nigel Farage & the Tories win, that's sad as it calls into question whether we even deserve to be members of the EU, as we're the country that can vote for THIS man after everything he's put our continent through for 3yrs.
If not, it just means we deserve our seat in Europe
If not, it just means we deserve our seat in Europe
Anyone celebrating the fact that a Brexit Party victory might make 1/2 UK so disgusted with our own country we question the morality of inflicting ourselves on our EU friends...Needs to ask themselves if national pride has any value if you've stolen it from your fellow nationals.
P.S. I said yes to this fully expecting an hour of "So Femi, the Brexit Party won, so a second referendum is dead?"
1⃣ In concrete terms, a huge Brexit Party victory doesn't achieve anything, for the reasons I outlined below a few weeks ago.
1⃣ In concrete terms, a huge Brexit Party victory doesn't achieve anything, for the reasons I outlined below a few weeks ago.
2⃣ The most likely consequence of a massive Brexit Party victory is that we leave with the deal that's been that's been negotiated. #EUelectionResults
