COMING TO AN ELECTION NEAR YOU

The backlash has started in Europe... soon to follow in the USA...

Count on it... and be counted in it.

bbc

EUROPEAN VOTERS PUNISH THE LEFT

Centre-right parties have done well in elections to the European Parliament at the expense of the left. Far-right and anti-immigrant parties also made gains...

The UK Labour Party, Germany's Social Democrats and France's Socialist Party were heading for historic defeats. Correspondents say the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) looks set to continue to hold power in the parliament.

Jose Manuel Barroso, who seems set for a second term as European Commission president following the centre-right success, thanked voters and assured them their voices would be heard. "Overall, the results are an undeniable victory for those parties and candidates that support the European project and want to see the European Union delivering policy responses to their everyday concerns," he said.

Socialist leader Martin Schulz said his group's defeat would be analysed. "It's a sad evening for social democracy in Europe. We are particularly disappointed, [it is] a bitter evening for us," he said....

Joy comes in the morning.

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