European Elections

In my opinion, it's more complicated because EU politics makes strange bedfellows depending on which side of the political spectrum is more internationalist by country... ALDE at its core seems to basically provide a broadly centrist option for pro-EU voting while S&D is a legitimate coalition of Social Democratic parties with left leaning economic interest. That said the Czech pro-ALDE party rules with support of the Communists who hate the EU, and are ideologically led by a feckless billionaire that tries to rule on a populist platform that contradicts itself.

The S&D includes a number of parties that are nominally pro-Europe but includes a lot of representation from countries where Social Democrat voters (even if not the parties themselves) are opposed to further integration or even somewhat anti-EU.

As for the Czech EU elections, I expect that ANO (ALDE) and Pirati (Pirates Party) will be the top 2, but my only hope is that SPD (MENL) gets locked out from picking up a seat as projected... Okamura is a specific kind of idiot that I'd rather not be given international platform.

 

Turnout being up so much means the exit polls, depending on when they were taken,
could be further off than normal.

 

The Green Party is the strongest Party with Voters <60 years old. The old keeping the CDU alive.

 

The UK results look like a Brexit Party rout.

 

Labour and the Cons got their a** kicked. Corbyn with his wishy-washy positions is the main culprit for this debacle.

 

No, if you read the Brexit thread it is factual and logical that Labour's woes are the fault of everyone and everything except Labour itself.

 

The EU probably needs to abandon it's policy of mass immigration and demographic replacement. It's not something that the people want.

 

Can you refer to the specific EU Policy stating the above? Unless I missed something, I don't recall ever seeing or hearing about this specific policy.

 

Labour is smelling the coffee and trying to stop the bleeding.

Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to support a second referendum on any Brexit deal after the Labour leadership came under overwhelming pressure to halt the exodus of its remain voterswho backed pro-EU parties at the European elections.

The Labour leader said he was “listening very carefully”to both sides of the debate after the party fell behind the Liberal Democrats and also lost ground to the Greens.

Labour’s preference would be a general election but any Brexit deal “has to be put to a public vote”, he said. Several Laboursources noted this was a shift from his previous position that a second referendum was being kept as an option on the table to stop a damaging Tory Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...port-for-second-referendum-after-voter-exodus

 

You should read the European Commission's literature on it's migration agenda. They're quite open about wanting to introduce a common asylum policy that would try to force member states to accept an allocation of asylum seekers, and also talk about keeping Europe an attractive place for migrants "in a time of demographic decline".

 

Nah....I am asking for a specific policy or directive from the EU Commission or the EU Parliament. Feel free to provide a link.

 

The asylum quota is about easing pressure from (southern) border countries who get the bulk of the asylum seekers and have to deal with them while the EU countries further from the border can twiddle their thumbs. Border countries have been lobbying for more shared responsibility regarding asylum seekers long before the recent migrant crisis brought it to the front page of everyones agenda.
Current EU rules pretty much only places the burden of dealing with asylum seekers on the country of first arrival.

Third country migration is something that is decided by every member state themselves by the way. Not something the EU regulates.

 

I feel like this is the part where I link the European Agenda on Migration literature that I suggested you read in the first place, and you, desperate to refute the point of contention, dismiss it because there is no explicit call for demographic replacement or mass migration even though every migration policy they pursue produces those results.

https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/s...on/20181204_com-2018-798-communication_en.pdf

 

I think a fairer system would be Germany and Sweden and the like paying compensation to border countries to offset the chaos they've caused by encouraging the mass movement of third world economic migrants (and some asylum seekers too).

 

You said it yourself, there is "no explicit call for demographic replacement or mass migration". There is as a matter of fact, no implicit or explicit policy nowhere close to that ridiculous statement. The rest is you just looking for a boogey man......