To ask when we get the results of the eu election?

[TheoriginalLEM]

There's a forecast win for the brexit party - how could that be???

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@gamerwidow.

sorry - I see you were responding to another poster.

MN should really get a better system for quoting other posts.

TBF thecabbage the Lib Dem slogan for this election was Bollocks To Brexit, which seems fairly unambiguous. Change UK pretty much exist to oppose Brexit, and the nationalist parties and Greens spelled out their opposition too.

I appreciate that there'll be a small percentage of Brexit supporting environmentalists who put their fear of global warming before their desire to leave, Scottish and Welsh nationalists who want to leave the EU but want to leave the UK more etc, and thus put other concerns second to their thoughts on Brexit. And I agree that the Tories and in particular Labour are pretty hard to call. But the idea that we can't make assumptions about the Brexit stance of the majority of voters from parties who had a clear position won't really wash. I mean, of course most Lib Dem voters want to stay in the EU.

I also wonder if people who have a usual allegiance to a party that didn't espouse their preferred EU position might've been more likely to stay at home. Because if eg you're passionately in favour of Scottish independence but you also want out of the EU, there's no obvious home for you is there? Same with NI, which has had a drop in turnout apparently.

I was mostly referring to lab and conservative, but still don’t think you can assume that people have voted stay or leave when a party has other policies.
I do think the general confusion evident on this site likely extends to the wider population, so it’s hard to draw any conclusions beyond the fact that the Brexit Party have a clear aim and have seized the opportunity presented by these elections, whereas the other parties have not. I’m in the Northwest. Only canvassing I got was from the Ukip and the Brexit Party, wtf where the Labour Party, change, Lib Dem’s etc.
We’re lazy we need someone to tell us who to vote for , if only option being presented is a Brexit/ UKIP glossy leaflet promising us unicorns, then we’ll vote for that if we can be bothered ( obv generalising).

Labour and the Tories absolutely. But Change UK pretty much exist to oppose Breexit and the Lib Dem platform was unequivocal. Of course we can assume. Saying otherwise is stretching a decent point further than it can really go.

I'm in the north west too and didn't even get that!