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Britain's Brown Suffers Another Blow in European Elections...
...perhaps an inevitable consequence of European parliamentary elections that voters in country after country across the continent so often choose to thump national politicians over distinctly domestic issues. As the results of Thursday's Europe-wide poll trickled in late Sunday, nowhere was that more evident than Britain. Rounding off an abysmal week for Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister's Labour Party slumped to third in the Euro vote with just 15.7% of the vote, far behind the opposition Conservatives and trumped even by the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), a fringe group whose singular focus is to get Britain...
...party's rout - Labour's share of the votes fell 7 percentage points, at a cost of five seats in Europe's Parliament - was far more dramatic than any of its rivals' gains. In securing its 13 seats in the European Parliament, for instance, UKIP increased its slice of the vote by just half a point. The Tories, with close to twice the share of votes as Labour's, saw its support climb by only 1 point. Even the BNP, whose two northern English seats included one for Nick Griffin, the party's pugnacious leader, grew its share of polling...
...four of its remaining county councils in local elections also held last Thursday. And as a string of disillusioned Ministers rushed for the exits in the days on either side of the poll, Brown even bungled a Cabinet reshuffle designed to reassert his authority. Trailing in third in the European elections leaves the PM "beaten by a party that he mocked and derided as being on the fringes," said UKIP leader Nigel Farage. "So if we have beaten...
...difficult to speak of winners in France's European parliamentary election on Sunday, given that almost 60% of French adults voted with their derrières by staying at home and avoiding the democratic process altogether. But those who did turn up rewarded two unlikely and rival contestants: the ruling party of France's unpopular President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and a union of traditionally marginal environmental parties now challenging the Socialists for leadership of the nation's leftist opposition...