THE M.E.N.'s David Ottewell used Twitter to provide live text commentary from Manchester Town Hall as the Euro election results came in. Replay his reports here.
NW Euro election - as it happened
June 05, 2009
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A good night for democracy - despite a lot of peoples' best efforts.
Very disappointed in Sir Richard Leese's comments about "flaws" in the voting system that allowed the BNP to get a seat.
Don't get me wrong, I was hoping the BNP would get less than 1% of the vote - but I think this PR voting system has been brilliant for local politics. It's exposed our "nasty little secret" - that up until a month ago the politicos & chattering classes tried to ignore & brush under the carpet.
And yes Sir Richard, all of us who care about this country, care about our way of life here, care about democracy, will "now" have to spend the next five years working to make sure the fascists are not returned. But that's a good thing isn't it?
So PR across our "whole" voting system I say!! Because then, apathetic smug local politicians will have to work & fight "so much harder" for our region!!
Don't get me wrong, I was hoping the BNP would get less than 1% of the vote - but I think this PR voting system has been brilliant for local politics. It's exposed our "nasty little secret" - that up until a month ago the politicos & chattering classes tried to ignore & brush under the carpet.
And yes Sir Richard, all of us who care about this country, care about our way of life here, care about democracy, will "now" have to spend the next five years working to make sure the fascists are not returned. But that's a good thing isn't it?
So PR across our "whole" voting system I say!! Because then, apathetic smug local politicians will have to work & fight "so much harder" for our region!!
Roy west (08/06/2009 at 10:21)