An Election In A Tiny English Town Is An Ominous Sign That Europe Is Coming Apart
Tomas Hirst
BusinessInsider.com
Oct. 10, 2014
Last night, a small British nationalist party won its first seat in England’s parliament.
In the tiny seaside town of Clacton, UKIP (The UK Independence Party) — a rising anti-EU party — scored a decisive win.
And although this was just one election, the vote will send shockwaves across Europe: The message is out — the eurosceptics are on the march.
For those willing to look, the signs of growing hostility to the European project have been easy to spot. In the last European parliament elections, hardcore eurosceptic parties captured 100 of the 751 seats, while almost a third were taken by other anti-establishment parties.
Notable among these are Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front, which won 24.95% of the vote in France (up from 6.3% in 2009), and Nigel Farage’s UKIP, which took 27.5% of the UK vote, giving it 23 MEPs and forcing Labour and the Conservatives into a humiliating scrap for second place. Scotland just held a referendum, pushed by nationalists there, on whether to leave Britain (and by default Europe). The nationalists got 45% of the vote.
In Greece, the radical left coalition SYRIZA came top of the polls with a 26.6% share of the total, on promises to campaign against harsh government spending cuts being imposed on the country by “the Troika” — a group consisting of the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank.
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