European Socialists Get Asses Kicked In Elections
Clay
Financial Times
June 8, 2009
European socialists were left in disarray on Sunday night after
failing to capitalise on a historic economic and financial crisis to
harvest disaffected voters in parliamentary elections.
In spite of such seemingly favourable conditions, the socialists fell
further behind the parliament�s largest group, the centre-right
European People�s party, as voters punished them in key countries,
including the UK, while flocking to parties on the far-left and
far-right elsewhere.
Projections released late on Sunday night by the parliament showed the
socialist group shrinking to between 155 and 165 seats � well below
the 217 the group previously occupied.
By contrast, the EPP was set to occupy 263 to 273 seats. (While the
outgoing parliament had 785 seats, the new one will have 736).
�It was a very difficult night,� Martin Schulz, the socialist group
president, conceded from Berlin.
�We would be well advised to carry out a very close analysis over the
coming days,� he added.
Party officials cast the blame on a combination of a low turnout,
which tends to favour fringe parties, and the vagaries of distinct
national contests.
Turnout, according to early estimates, fell to a new low of 43.3 per
cent � down from 45 per cent five years ago � in spite of an extensive
promotional campaign by the parliament.
While Mr Schulz urged socialists to maintain their principles, other
party officials struck a more dire tone. �If the socialists can�t do
well now, when can we do well?� one asked.
Some socialists have even spoken of possibly changing their name to
�Democrats�. The thinking is that a different title might help the
group, particularly in eastern Europe.
But outside analysts indicated the group�s problems were more
fundamental as they failed to win over crisis-hit voters. �They�re
being punished for not coming up with strong alternatives to what the
centre-right is proposing,� said Sara Hagemann, an analyst at the
European Policy Centre in Brussels.
In France, for example, the socialists were set to lose roughly half
their seats to President Nicolas Sarkozy�s ruling centre-right UMP.
�People are looking for practical solutions to lift us out of the
crisis,� said Joseph Daul, a UMP member and the leader of the EPP.
Mr Daul said that his group would now deliberate over its candidate
for the presidency of the European Parliament � a choice between new
and old member states including Poland�s Jerzy Buzek and Italy�s Mario
Mauro.
Mr Daul also pledged to push for the early adoption of the Lisbon
reform treaty, which would expand the parliament�s powers.
As the results rolled in, the mainstream parties were bracing
themselves for the arrival in Brussels of as many as 50 to 60
Eurosceptic MEPs from the far-right and far-left. From a relatively
low base, groups such as the Danish People�s party and Austria�s Hans
Peter Martin list emerged as big winners on an evening when the
centre-left wilted.
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More bad news for anti-American, anti-Western leftist USENET posters
like zepp, Richard Hanson & Mitch.
-C-
Boran
> Joshua Chaffin
> Financial Times
> June 8, 2009
>
> European socialists were left in disarray on Sunday night after
> failing to capitalise on a historic economic and financial crisis to
> harvest disaffected voters in parliamentary elections.
>
Word is that they're dismantling their socialist health insurance systems in
favor of US stuple for profit health care, strippin away their social safety
nets, only allowing 2 weeks holidays and year and forcing everyone to work for
$10 an hour, 60 hours a week to erect statues of Bush, Reagan and Limbaugh in
every town square. Sean Hannity and Hal Turner issued statements today
hearlding this as a glorious victory for the Republican party and the begining
of a new age of pure lassiz faire capitalism and perpetual right wing rule.
Aggie A.
<anonym...@remailer.cyberiade.it> wrote:
> In article <MPG.249631d94acd6ce3989...@news.x-privat.org>
> they all stand around watching the guys who do work.
Another anonymous delusional fool chips in his 2 cents worth. Who
told you that? Your prophet Limbaugh?
Viejo Vizcacha
> Joshua Chaffin
> Financial Times
> June 8, 2009
>
> European socialists were left in disarray on Sunday night after
> failing to capitalise on a historic economic and financial crisis to
> harvest disaffected voters in parliamentary elections.
>
Is that why all European markets are down sharply the day after? I
guess capitalists know right wing conservatives are not good for the
economy.
VV
SFTV_troy
> On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:57:21 -0400, Clay
>
> <c...@thinktank.nyc> wrote:
> >European socialists were left in disarray on Sunday night after
> >failing to capitalise on a historic economic and financial crisis to
> >harvest disaffected voters in parliamentary elections.
>
> "leftists" and look what happened.
Yeah except Hitler was a leftist/socialist (pro-big-government, pro-
corporatism). Everyone tries to pretend otherwise, but that's what
his party was.
pyjamarama
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:56:26 -0700 (PDT), SFTV_troy
>
> <SFTV_t...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> Wow, exactly like Hitler last century. Rightwingers scapegoated
> >> "leftists" and look what happened.
>
> >Yeah except Hitler was a leftist/socialist (pro-big-government, pro-
> >corporatism). Everyone tries to pretend otherwise, but that's what
> >his party was.
>
> totalitarian conservative, you uneducated fool
>
> Hitler allowed guns to be retained by the general
> population, he allowed free markets, private property,
> paid for services from private enterprise, and as a
> conservative, was militaristic, racist, homophobic,
> ultranationalistic
>
> MOF, EVERY conservative trait is the hallmark of
> Hitler.
>
>
>
> >==========================================================================
> >"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no
> >religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a
> >religious foundation is built on air; consequently all character training
> >and religion must be derived from faith.... We
> >need believing people."
> > --Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933,- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
So says the drooling cocksucker without so much as a soupcon of
credibility...
Here's why:
GARY ROSELLES (aka "mike-sw...") Rapid City SD Septuagenarian's
collected views on race, homosexuality, death-threats and killing
govt. officials and teenage girls:
"She (Katherine Harris) should be at least shot" -- Gary Roselles
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.clinton/msg/9431827dde9eb727?dmode=source
"I call Kathering Harris a nazi/fascist right wing ideologue whore.
What did we do to German nazis right wing whores?" -- Gary Roselles
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.bush/msg/346a12114c9884ee?hl=en&dmode=source
"May a real american someday have the honor of putting a bullet
between her eyes." -- Gary Roselles on B. Robertson's teenage
daughter.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/msg/652f875e53203e8e?hl=en&
"What the fuck would a dumb cocksucker like (Distinguished African-
American Scholar) Sowell, who sits out at Stanford, never having
worked a day in his Uncle Tom life, know anything?" -- Gary Roselles
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/msg/90646e9b4da37793
"Both are traitors to their race" -- Gary Roselles on the importance
of Race Loyalty
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater/msg/1b116fa0999182fb
"You actually think that placing blackskinned, white thinking people
is going to gain anything with real minorities?" -- Gary Roselles
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.republicans/msg/421a0f9263435ca4
(see header)
"Them brown niggers need to be taken out" -- Gary Roselles
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.society.liberalism/msg/17fcf97abe2e4ee2?dmode=source
"He (African-American scholar Thomas Sowell) goes against his own
kind." Gary Roselles, insisting once again that blacks should "stick
to their own kind"
"His appointment will bridge nothing. It's apparant he's being an
uncle tom to appease voters." -- White trash asshole Gary Roselles
slurs American Hero General Colin Powell
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/msg/d9ccfefc35328516?dmode=source
"Group Negro Poster Pyjamarma admits to being a coconut headed coon"
-- Gary Roselles
"Say "yes Massa", Uncle Tom." -- Gary Roselles pathetically mocks ands
slurs prominent African-American man-of-the-cloth Jesse Lee Peterson
"How does a pampered, Stanford based, Scaife funded, Uncle Tom make
judgements on "the bottom", McFly?" -- Another day, another racial
slur on an educated, successful, independent black man from Gary
Roselles
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.clinton/msg/9431827dde9eb727?dmode=source
"I consider hating RIGHT WING nazi/fascist fucks like you a God
inspired emotion." -- Pure, venomous hate-speech from "god-inspired"
whackjob Gary Roselles
"Hating RIGHT WINGERS is doing God's work, Dumbapropyl" -- Pure,
venomous hate-speech from "god-inspired" whackjob Gary Roselles
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.society.conservatism/msg/d2ab5e412f7ed8e7?dmode=source
"Yeah, there's a real fucking credible authority----Hitchens a faggot
socialist." -- Gary Roselles, rabid homophobe
http://groups.google.com/group/seattle.politics/msg/fcf8198215ac03f2?as_ums
"You're like that kid that has just been told that's not a hot-dog
he's sucking on" -- Gary Roselles, Pedophile
Roselles racist buddy "Wayback" wrote this:
"Another reason you're bitter is that your parents are white, which is
surprising given that 90% of the guys yo hippie momma fucked were
black."
And racist Rosieloon followed up with this:
On 18 Feb 2007 14:05:28 -0700 Gary Roselles<C...@Knicklas.com> "Then
why was you mother stupid enough to fuck all them black guys?"
See any difference?
Didn't think so.
Two peas in a pod....
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