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Originally Posted by Andrew Constantine
Britannist - I so agree with your above post. The message I take from it is that the Euro elections in June 2009 are a wonderful opportunity for reasoned and reputable anti-EU parties to do well. I hope both our parties have got their acts fully together in time to campaign effectively for these elections in June 2009.
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Thank you for your agreement, Andrew, with the points I made in posting number four to this thread.
I agree that the June 2009 EU Elections are important for pro-England and anti-EU parties. As we know, the voting system used in those elections is beneficial to small parties (such as UKIP, the Free England Party (FEP) and the English Democrats) whose vote may be spread more-or-less evenly across England rather than concentrated in some areas only.
With just over a year to go before the next EU Elections I hope that the pro-sovereignty (anti-EU) and pro-England parties can try to agree to joint lists of candidates for the EU Elections to avoid vote-splitting.
The EU has cut the number of seats of most of the larger member nations of the EU in the EU 'Parliament' (supposedly in order to give newer EU member states those seats taken from the larger EU member nations). But one 'advantage' to the EU ruling 'elite' of this change is that - with less seats than before in some EU 'regional' constituencies in the UK - it will make it harder for small anti-EU and pro-England parties to win seats in those constituencies from next year. In other words, more votes will now be needed by small parties to win seats in the larger EU 'regional' constituencies in the UK (i.e. such as London, the south-east of England and the north-west of England) because the minimum vote threshold rises when the number of seats in each constituency is reduced.
So getting co-operation between small parties who share a broad agenda (i.e. pro-sovereignty, pro-England and anti-EU) - which I have been calling for for some time now - should be an urgent priority for those parties. If UKIP, the FEP, Veritas, One London and the English Democrats all put up candidates against each other in next year's EU Election the anti-EU and pro-England vote will be divided up reducing the chance that one or more of the parties might win representation in the EU 'Parliament'.
But if all (or most) of the parties named sensibly agree on a single list of candidates in each EU constituency fighting under the overall banner of a 'Pro-England candidates against EU rule' alliance then campaigning efforts and resources could be pooled with the real prospect of success for the named parties in the next EU Election.
I hope that the FEP, the English Democrats, UKIP, Veritas and One London can hold informal talks about formal or informal co-operation between the parties in some or all wards/constituencies as soon as possible.