EU Elections 2019

[WelshBluebird]

At least Scotland remained a "Green Free Zone" in the latest EU Elections !!! (and is Labour free)

Is this because The Scottish Green Party is a separate entity to that of the English and Welsh variety ?

I am probably the only forum member that voted Scottish Conservative in the poll - we held on to our seat.

In my view there is a huge latent opportunity for The Scottish Conservatives with a great leader like Ruth Davison to make further progress at both MSP and MP levels if we get a sensible replacement for Teresa May.

Just ask GUS B what happened in Moray at the last General Election !!

With Labour imploding , I could see us becoming the second party in Scotland in both Parliaments.

Forget the "Panda Jokes" , Scotland is there for the taking.

In terms of Scotland being a "green and labour free zone" - isn't that more down to the SNP than the Tories?
And getting a "sensible replacement" for May is sounding pretty unlikely given the options that seem available!

 

[Typhoon]

At least Scotland remained a "Green Free Zone" in the latest EU Elections !!! (and is Labour free)

Is this because The Scottish Green Party is a separate entity to that of the English and Welsh variety ?

In terms of Scotland being a "green and labour free zone" - isn't that more down to the SNP than the Tories?

Also because of the system of allocating seats. They typically get one candidate elected in the larger constituencies (in terms of seats). So Wales and the North East (3 seats) no chance; South East and North West (10 & 8 seats) every chance. ​

 

[radamfi]

Also because of the system of allocating seats. They typically get one candidate elected in the larger constituencies (in terms of seats). So Wales and the North East (3 seats) no chance; South East and North West (10 & 8 seats) every chance. ​

Exactly.

Labour got 7.3% of the vote in SE and got 1 seat.
Labour got 9.3% of the vote in Scotland and got no seats.

 

[Struner]

Tories just happened to be the bigger one of the small ones at around 10%.
This was before the flipflop of the Great Leader Davison (sic)

 

[Giugiaro]

The European Heads of State have come into an agreement during the EU Council summit to designate Ursula Von der Leyen as president of the EU Commission.

But the meetings with the EU Parliament political groups don't seem to have had much of an impact in convincing MEP's to vote for the proposed Commission, specially given how the appointed president is none of the Spitzenkandidaten and the candidate being unable to give a clear strategy or even dodging some topics, being possible that the vote next week may result in failure.

The Greens have already announced that they'll be voting against appointing Von der Leyen's team as the next EU Comission.

 

[Mvann]

The SPD aren't gonna vote for her either.

 

[hexagon789]

I am probably the only forum member that voted Scottish Conservative in the poll - we held on to our seat.

I can think of at least two others