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What depressing reading the election results make, with seemingly every nation across Europe - including the ones that have only just been admitted to the club - voting in large chunks for parties that art Eurosceptic.

That’s not to say that the majority of people didn’t want to stay in Europe. The majority, after all, didn’t vote, but it’s the 17% of the 40% in the UK who bothered to get off their fat arses and go out to put a cross in the box that have won all the headlines, by electing 12 members of the UK Independence Party, including the vile Kilroy Silk, to seats in the European Parliament.

What, really, is the point of doing that? Why elect someone to an institution they openly abhor? In fact, more to the point, why stand for election to something you only want to destroy? Scally has a picture on his site at the moment of two women holding up a placard, on which are written the words ‘bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity’. Just a little tweak is all it would need for it to apply equally here.

The only consolation is that pretty much every noteworthy vote was a vote against the dominant ruling party in each country, indicating not that the people of Europe are fundamentally anti-EU, but that they simply disapprove of their current rulers. As those rulers are fundamentally pro-EU, the net effect is that it’s the anti-EU parties that benefit.

Their victory will be (I hope) short-lived. They won on a series of one-issue tickets that will never be fulfilled. Next time around they can’t possibly be so lucky.

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