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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:11 AM Original message |
So what's the deal with the European parliamentary elections? Did teh stupid shift from us to them? |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes, it did. nt |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
2. The Stupid is everywhere. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'm at a loss also. |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
4. Simply put, the left failed. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:36 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. That's ridiculous. There is no "the left"... |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:52 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. I understand... |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:55 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yes, I'm not so worried about parties like the Christian Democrats |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 01:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. but they enacted neo-lib policies. |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. the left failed because |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Aha... |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 10:17 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. kind of, yes |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 10:24 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Really puts our extremist republican party in perspective, |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I'm not inventing anything |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Schröder (social democrat) and Fischer (greens) took office in 1998 with the slogan |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I guess there's just no hope at all, then... anywhere. (nt) |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. the left parties in europe have, in a number of cases, been the executives |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 05:58 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. in the european lefties la-la land |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. These people were brought in to fill a labor shortage, now it's time for them to |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
6. Not that many turned out to vote. |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. but still as a US average turn out. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Why would that be the case, though? |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 10:32 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. because the EU-parliament is a peripheral institution |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. Yes, |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. P.S. To all on the board who have ever argued... |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:41 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. this is mostly a UK problem |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
8. you'd dream to have European conservatives to rule the US |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Merkel perhaps. The BNP and similar parties and even UKIP - No! |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. the equivalent of the UKIP in France |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. Bzzzt. I live in Merkel's Germany. She's been fucking it up. |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
17. The BNP would not even be legal where I'm from... |
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