2019 European Parliament elections

Overview
From 22 to 25 May 2014, elections to the European Parliament were held in the European Union.

It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties fielded candidates for President of the Commission. The candidates, sometimes referred to by the German term Spitzenkandidaten (English: top candidates), were Jean-Claude Juncker for the European People's Party, Martin Schulz for the Party of European Socialists, Guy Verhofstadt for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, Ska Keller and José Bové jointly for the European Green Party and Alexis Tsipras for the Party of the European Left. The Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists and the European Alliance for Freedom declined to nominate candidates.

While the European People's Party lost ground to the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, it remained the largest faction in the new parliament, resulting in the EPP's nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker as Commission President at the European Council. In turn, the European Council accepted the nomination by a simple majority (only David Cameron and Viktor Orban voted against Juncker).

The next election to the European Parliament was held between 23 and 26 May 2019 and will be the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) currently represent more than 512 million people from 28 member states.

In February 2018, the European Parliament voted to decrease the number of MEPs from 751 to 705 if the United Kingdom were to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March 2019. However, the United Kingdom is now due to participate alongside other EU member states after an extension of the Article 50 process.

Who can vote in the UK during this election



 *  To vote in this election you must: 
 * 1) have registered to vote at your current address by Friday 12 April 2019.
 * 2) be 18 or over on the day of the election.
 * 3) be a British, Irish, Commonwealth or EU citizen.
 * 4) be registered at an address in the area in which you want to vote.
 * 5) not be legally excluded from voting, such as prisoners.

Background
 The main topics were: 
 * 1) Eviromental and recycling issues surrounding plastic.
 * 2) Future trade with Russia, China, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, Brazil, Japan and the USA.
 * 3) The racist government in Hungary had become a de facto one party state and the people had developed a personality cult around the PM, Viktor Alban.
 * 4) Germany had drained Greece dry of money and saleable assets by loan sharking it after the 2008 financial crisis.
 * 5) Francee had dumped it's African illegal immigrants on Italy and Malta.
 * 6) Italy, Poland and Spain refusing to take significant numbers of immigrants.
 * 7) Poland, Slovakia, the UK and Hungary refusing to take significant numbers of  Syrian immigrants.
 * 8) Poland and Romania flooding the UK and Ireland with migrant labours.
 * 9) The Brexit fiasco in the UK and Ireland.
 * 10) Ecanomic and subsequent employment decline in the EU as a whole.
 * 11) Germany's growing Neo-Nazi youth movement.
 * 12) Italian and Spanish ecanomic collapse.
 * 13) British, German, Italian, Hungarian, Austrian, French and Dutch fears over Islamic terrorism.
 * 14) Older English peoples' pathological hatred of Poland, Romania and Greece.
 * 15) Older English peoples' virulent racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and the belief that the Nazis were lenient, multicultural and left wing (WTF).
 * 16) The UK's imminent disintegration along racial and religious lines.
 * 17) Scots and Catalan independence.
 * 18) Tory plots to oust Theresa May as PM.
 * 19) Poland's ultra-conservative regime.
 * 20) The growing German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and English adoration for the WW2 era  Axis Powers.
 * 21) Romania's image as soft on corruption despite being hard on corruption.
 * 22) The collapse of British Steel.
 * 23) Andrea Leadsom quitting the UK's cabinet over Europe.

The parties' Brexit positions
Among other parties, the SDLP opposed Brexit and supports a second referendum, but it supports the withdrawal agreement if Brexit is to take place. The Alliance Party opposed Brexit    while TUV supported it.

Campaign
A milkshake was thrown over a 81 year old  Aldershot Brexit Party voter, Nigel Farage (Brexit Party), Tommy Robinson (EDL) and Carl Benjamin (UKIP) during British campaign. There were some minor pro-Remaine vs. Pro-Brexit scuffles in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield and Glasgow.

A Labour supporter and a SNP supporter had a stone thrown at each of them in 2 separate Glaswegian street campaigns.

The leaders of German, Italian, French, Bulgaria, Dutch Czech, and Swedish far-right parties held a joint rally in Milan.

Thee were several anti- Far-right rallies in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Belgian, The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland and Romania.

EU MEP affiliation on May 22nd, 2019
The centre-right European People's Party won the most seats, but came up well short of a majority. In Denmark, France, and United Kingdom rightist groups opposed to the European Union won "unprecedented" victories according to some news organisations such as Reuters. Elsewhere, populist parties won significant seats. In total, roughly a quarter of all seats went to parties sceptical of the EU or protest parties. Thus, the election was seen as anti-establishment. In the wake of the election, several prominent political figures said the EU needed to realign its priorities in a hurry. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called for "fewer rules and less fuss", while British Prime Minister David Cameron said "Europe should concentrate on what matters, on growth and jobs, and not try to do so much."


 * 1) ^ Highlight colours show declared group affiliation in the incoming parliament.
 * 2) ^ Mrs Joëlle Bergeron who was elected from the Marine blue gathering's electoral list will eventually seat as an independent MEP in the Europe of Freedom and Democracy political group after having ended her membership of the National Front.
 * 3) ^ VMRO was elected on the BBT list, and was accepted to the ECR Group in late June.
 * 4) ^ Brian Crowley was the sole elected Fianna Fáil MEP, which had sat with the ALDE group in the previous Parliament. Against party wishes, Crowley left the ALDE group and joined the ECR group for the Eighth Parliament. Fianna Fáil was and remains a member of the ALDE party, and as a result of Crowley's actions, the party whip was withdrawn, though he retains his party membership.
 * 5) ^ Official results as of Wednesday 28 May 2014, 8:30 UTC: all 751 seats assigned.
 * 6) ^ Differences in seat counts for each group only take into account parties or individuals who were already members of a given group in the outgoing parliament (or of a corresponding Europarty). The MEPs elected in 2014 will be free to join existing groups or form new ones. To learn more about this process, see Political groups of the European Parliament and section #Group reshuffling below.

UK media endorsements

 * The ConservativeHome blog and its editor Paul Goodman implied endorsing, or appeared to suggest, abstaining from the elections.
 * The online magazine Spiked endorsed the Brexit Party.
 * The online newspaper Human Events endorsed the Brexit Party.
 * The online newspaper The Independent endorsed candidates that can "best influence EU lawmaking".

The 2019 UK results

 *  Initial results show- 
 * The Brexit party winning in Chelmsford and Beverly (Yoks) with the Lib' Dem's a good second place. The Greens, Change UK and Yorkshire Party are also gaining a few %.
 * Scotland is taken by the SNP, with the Lib' Dem's and Labour tailing far behind. The Greens and Change UK gain a few %.
 * Richmond-upon-Thames and Kingston-upon-Thames went Lib' Dem's.


 *  Confirmed results are-  
 * UKIP slaughtered UK wide, by Brexit Party, who was founded by UKIP defectors!
 * The Brexit party wins in Chelmsford with the Lib' Dem's a good second place. The Greens, EDP and Change UK are also gaining a few %.
 * NE England- Brexit Party 2, Labour 1 MEP. Brexit Party crushes Labour and Lib Dem's 3 to 1. The Conservatives implode. A odd few % vote Lib' Dem's and Change UK.
 * Mid Renfrewshire- The SNP wipe out the Tories and genocide Labour. Lib' Dem's trail badly in second. The Greens and Change UK also gain a od few%
 * Scottish Borders- Brexit devastate Labour and Tories. SNP, Change UK and Lib' Dem's gain a few %.
 * Anglesey went PC. Labour and Tories are slaughtered. The Greens, Change UK and Lib' Dem's gain a few %.
 * Blaenau Gwent- Labour is crushed by Brexit Party. PC, Change UK and Lib' Dem's gain a few %.
 * Pembrokeshire- Brexit Party wipes out Labour and wounds the Tories. PC, Change UK and Lib' Dem's gain a few %.
 * East of England- Brexit 3, Conservative 1, Lib Dem's 2 and Green 1 MEP. Brexit Party beats the Conservatives  3 to 1 and utterly crushes Labour. The The Lib' Dem's go up a lot.  A odd few % vote Change UK and EDP.
 * Islington- Lib' Dem's come a close second to Brexit party. Labour is hammered and the Conservatives are wiped out. Greens and Change UK get a few %.
 * Windsor and Maidenhead- Conservatives ares hammered and Labour are wiped out. Greens and Change UK get a few %..
 * Wales: PC- 1, Brexit Party- 2 and Labour- 1 MEPs. Brexit Party wipes out Labour and wounds the Tories. PC, Change UK and Lib' Dem's gain a few %.
 * W. Midlands: Brexit- 3, Green- 1, Conservative- 1, Labour 1 and Lib Dems 1. Labour and Tories are hammered by Brexit, Lib Dems and Greens. Change UK get a few %.
 * Yorkshire and Humber: The Greens got more votes than the Tories! Brexit- 3, Labour- 1, Lib' Dem's- 1 and Green- 1. Brexit slaughters Labour and the Tories. The Lib' Dem's gain a lot. The EDP, Yorkshire Party and Greens gain a few %.
 * South West: Brexit Party beat Lib' Dem's 3 to 1, and both labour and the Conservatives 6 to 1. Brexit- 3, Green- 1 and Lib Dem 2 MEP. Labour and Conservatives are badly wounded by the Lib' Dem's and Brexit Party gain a lot. The Greens, EDP and Change UK gain a few %.
 * East Midlands: Brexit Party- 3 MEPs, Lib' Dem's- 1 and Labour- 1. Labour and Conservatives are badly wounded by the Lib' Dem's and Brexit Party gain a lot. The Greens, Independence and Change UK gain a few %.
 * South East: Brexit slaughters Labour and the Tories. The Lib' Dem's gain heavily. UK European Party, Independence, Socialist Party of the UK and Greens gain a few %. Brexit- 3, Lib' Dem's- 3, Green- 1. Conservative- 1 and Labour- 1 MEP.
 * NW England- Brexit- 3, Labour- 2 Lib' Dem's- 2, Green- 1. Brexit slaughters Labour and the Tories. The Lib' Dem's gain heavily. UK European Party, Independence, EDP, and Greens gain a few %. Brexit- 3, Lib' Dem's- 3, Green- 1. Conservative- 1 and Labour- 1 MEP.
 * The Brexit Party ridicule the Lib'Dem's and Greens as failures, which they weren't. Brexit Party boasts a landslide victory with about 40% of the vote. They want to reopen talks with Europe, leading to a no-deal Brexit, backed up by UK state intimidation of the EU states.
 * Brighton and Hove: Brexit beaten by the Greens at 2 to 1. Labour and Tories fail utterly.
 * Bristol: Brexit beaten by the Greens at 2 to 1, with the Lib Dem's close behind the Greens. Labour and Tories fail utterly.
 * Greater London: Lib' Dem's 3, London 2, Conservatives 2 and Brexit Party 1 MEP.
 * Glasgow: SNP wipe out Labour, with the Lib' Dem's doing well, the Torie badly wounded. The Greens and Change UK gain a odd few %.
 * East Renfrewshire: SNP wipe out Labour, with the Lib' Dem's doing well, the Torie badly wounded. The Greens and Change UK gain a odd few %.
 * Richmond-upon-Thames: Lib' Dem's wipe out Labour and Conservatives. Brexit Party dose well. The Greens lost a few % and Change UK got a few %.
 * Hammersmith and Fulham: Lib' Dem's wipe out Labour and Conservatives. Brexit Party dose well. The Greens and Change UK got a few %.
 * Elmbridge: Lib' Dems just beat the Conservatives, Brexit gains a lot.
 * Heart: Brexit just beat the Conservatives, Lib' Dems gains a lot.
 * Scotland: SNP 3, Lib' Dem's 1, Brexit 1 and Consevative 1MEP.
 * N. Ireland: 1DUP, 1SF and 1 AP MEP each.
 * 1) ^ Change UK's sole MEP before the election, Richard Ashworth, was a member of the EPP group.
 * 2) ^ Two of UKIP's three remaining MEPs, including its leader Gerard Batten, were members of the EAPN's predecessor group ENF

The 2019 EU results

 *  Initial results show- 
 * Greens and liberals lead in Ireland.
 * Greens lead in Finland and are coming second after the CDU in Germany.
 * The French Fascists lead, but Greens are close behind.
 * The CDU remained in Germany, but are badly wounded.
 * The Fascist AfD gain will 4 German MEPs.
 * Socialists and Liberals landslide in the Netherlands.
 * The Greens win heavily across Europe.
 * La Legua is winning in Italy with 25%-27% of the vote.
 * The Danish and Dutch fascists are wiped out.
 *  Confirmed results are-  
 * The CDU wins in Germany, the Greens come second and the AfD got 4 MEPs.
 * The HDZ wins in Croatia with 27% of the vote and 5 MEPs.
 * The Socialists narrowly wins in Portugal 33% of the vote.
 * French and Italian Fascists win the largest slice of thire nation's MEPs.
 * The Croatian ED win a surprising 3 MEPs.
 * The RE (Front Nacional) narrowly beat En Marche!

Aftermath



 * 1) Theresa May has said on Mat 24th that she was to quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister. This was partly in response to Andrea Leadsom quitting here cabinet post 2 days previously. Jeremy Hunt quickly announced his bids to be party leader and PM. Sir Ian Brady and Boris Johnson start sounding out party support for the bids. The ex-Tory PM, David Cameron, along with cabinet ministers Michel Grove and Liam Fox wish her the best of luck and felt sorry for her. Jeremy Hunt, Boris Johnson, Rory Stewart and Esther McVey said they wanted to be Tory leader on May 25th.
 * 2) France's fascist Front National demand the dissolution of parliament and power being given to their party in its place. President Emmanuel Macron refuses out right!
 * 3) The Brexit Party demands to defacto take over UK-EU Brexit talks.
 * 4) The Scottish First Minister calls for a new referendum on Scottish independence.
 * 5) The Labour party says it has had a minor setback and will not change course. Jeremy Corbyn, The Welsh and Scottish branches called for a second referendum. They Tories say there will never be any more and Scotland would be eventually integrated in to England.
 * 6) The Conservatives (Tories) say the lanslid in Scotland and the SNP were crushed, neither being true. They accuse the SNP of lying and cheating.
 * 7) The Tory party leadership figures think that they should take note of the result. Boris Johnson suggests ideas that would lead to turning the party in to a ultra-fanatical rip-off of UKIP, the Brexit Party, EDP and\or the BNP. He calls for the complete closure of all relations with the EU as soon as possible.
 * 8) Labour feared the risk of being crushed in a general election and did not a early one.
 * 9) The Conservatives became terrified of being wiped out in a general election and said they would try to delay it as long as possible.
 * 10) Some Tory leadership candidates start whipping up Euro-phobic tendencies in the party. They deny rumors that a large part of the party is Islamophobic and xenophobic, of which at least some are! No-one launches an official investigation and the Islamophobia and xenophobia, and the Islamic Council Of Great Britain's claims is ignored. Tory leadership candidate Svid Javid says he's undecided, while Rory Stewart and Jeremy Hunt says he would renegotiate the Brexit deal with the EU.
 * 11) The scandal of the Tory losses is at least partly buried in the press as the Equality and Human Rights Commision launch an investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labour party, whilst ignoring rumours of Tory islamophobia. The non-Jews were mostly not Jew haters until the Jews outside of labour used the anti-Semitism accusations as an excuse to force Labour in to becoming a de jure Zionist party. The Conservatives (Tories) and UK media regularly and bacelesly accused Labour of being full-blown and systematically anti-Semitism, like neo-Nazis are! Now a lot more non-Jews are anti-Semites and\or hacked-off with UK politics.
 * 12) The head of the UNITE trades union, Len McCluskey, calls for unity and healing of political wounds.
 * 13) Labour's Alistair campbell and the Conservative's Michael Heseltine were expelled from thire parties for voting Lib' Dem's.
 * 14) Luxembourg's PM, Denmark's PM, EU negotiator Jean Claude Juncker and the head of the European Parliament say don't want to renegotiate the UK's Brexit deal.
 * 15) Tory leadership candidate Boris Johnson, was taken to court by a Norfolk business man for misconduct in a public office when he made a untrue claim in the 2016 Brexit Referendum. Boris Johnston and Nigel Farage had been part on a photoshoot with a big decker double red bus carrying a slogan saying: "We send the EU £350 million a day. Let's fund our NHS instead. [picture of a vote being dropped in to a balt box] Vote leave." The claimed lie was that they did not say that a load was spent in the UK by the EU and a significant slice was given back to the UK under Margaret Thatchers's EU rebate that starred in the late 1980's. Boris Johnston's defence that it was a political plot to undermine him, Brexit and the UK. He hinted he was above the law, Brexit was to be achieved at any cost and his opponents were beneath contempt. He also stated the opinion that it was undemocratic to have ecorial laws and that anything goes, even false news and fase facts.
 * 16) The head of the Scottish Conservatives say that the new party leader must be a unionist. They SNP were saging a PR stunt, Scots never wanted independence from the UK, with claims the SNP lost the Euro elections to the other parties (SNP 3, LD 1, Con 1 and Brexit 1), future ballots on Scottish independence should be banned and that the remain vote in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum should stand for ever.
 * 17) Donald Trump said he was thinking of meeting with the "very good guys" Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage on his June 2019 state visit. Nigel Farage today claimed he's been stopped from seeing his "friend" Donald Trump by the UK parliament. It was deemed a public order risk due to possible anti-Brexit violence and unnecessarily dangerous to President Trump. He met them and the Conservative MP Ian Duncan Smith, all 3 of which are idialogicalproxys for Donald Trump.
 * 18) The trade deal  offered by President Trump to a totally humiliated Theresa May a trade deal which was effectively an American corporate buyout that would be more widespread, through and controlling than what the EU's bureaucrats wanted. The Health Minister, Mat Hancock, said he opposed the privatisation and\or American buy out of the UK's NHS.
 * 19) 6 members quit Change UK.

Tory leadership candidates

 * 1) James Cleverly (withdrew)
 * 2) Michael Gove
 * 3) Matt Hancock
 * 4) Jeremy Hunt
 * 5) Sajid Javid
 * 6) Boris Johnson
 * 7) Andrea Leadsom
 * 8) Kit Malthouse (withdrew)
 * 9) Esther McVey
 * 10) Dominic Raab
 * 11) Rory Stewart
 * 12) Mark Harper
 * 13) Sam Gyimah

Their concerns
The Scottish Assembly was outraged by England's rejection of thire concerns over a need for migrant labour. The Welsh Sennyed  was concerned by the prospects of UK ecanomic decline caused by a hard Brexit.

Their reactions

 * 1) The SNP called for a new referendum on Scottish independence. The Tories said there would never be a new referendum since they feared losing it to the SNP and the Tories wanted to annex Scotland into England.

The Metro Mayors for Greater Manchester, Merseyside and North of the Tyne all raised various concerns about Northern Rail's crappy performance. The Metro Mayors for Greater Manchester and Merseyside wanted it re-nationalised, but he government refused and said Arriva Rail North's performance was perfect.

The Class 331 Civity is a class of electric multiple unit being constructed for Northern by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. A total of 43 units are to be built: 31 three-car units and 12 four-car units. Construction started in July 2017 and the trains will be phased into service in 2019.

The announcement of the new trains was made by Arriva UK Trains when it was confirmed that it would become the next operator of the Northern franchise from 1 April 2016. Train No. 331001 was sent on test in and about Crewe on 30 October 2018. Nonetheless, posh new Spanish trains will stop a lack of drivers, poor labour relations and\or poor workplace morale.

Devolved bodies and Metro-Mayors

 * 1) Cambridgeshire and Peterborough:
 * 2) Constituent: Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, East Cambridgeshire District Council, Fenland District Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, Peterborough City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council
 * 3) Greater Manchester:
 * 4) Constituent: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan
 * 5) Liverpool City Region:
 * 6) Constituent: Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Wirral and Halton
 * 7) North of Tyne
 * 8) Constituent: Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, North Tyneside
 * 9) Tees Valley:
 * 10) Constituent: Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-On-Tees.
 * 11) Sheffield City Region:
 * 12) Constituent: Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley
 * 13) West Midlands:
 * 14) Constituent: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall
 * 15) West of England:
 * 16) Constituent: Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire.
 * 17) Grater London:
 * 18) Greater London.
 * 19) Scottish Parliament:
 * 20) Scotland.
 * 21) National Assembly for Wales:
 * 22) Wales.
 * 23) Northern Ireland Assembly (shut down in 2017):
 * 24) N. Ierland.

Also see

 * 1) ECU
 * 2) Elections
 * 3) A prayer for Europe
 * 4) May 2019 UK voter suppression incidents
 * 5) The CBI and TUC unite again against Brexit
 * 6) May 12th UK opinion polling on the May 23rd EU election
 * 7) The March 27th indicative votes and the House Motion (April 3rd)
 * 8) May 2nd, 2019, Oxfordshire districts' council election results
 * 9) May 2nd, 2019, Middlesbrough Borough Council and Mayor of Middlesbrough elections
 * 10) Electoral Calculus.co.uk.s' May 17th 2019 election prediction for the Middlesbrough seats
 * 11) Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the management of waste from extractive industries