Britons Pause to Vote in an Election Many Did Not Want

Apparently the British people aren’t buying Big Brussels’ doublespeak that self determination is slavery and submission is freedom.

If I were a UK citizen, I'd be voting Labour. To say that Jeremy Corbyn is "walking a tightrope" is just plain wrong. To use the words of the London taxi driver quoted in the article, he's done nothing but dither and equivocate for the last three years. A real disappointment...

Brexiters voting for their party in this election will not vote for brexit anymore but for a progressive self destruction of the EU itself, same agenda as all other right- winged populists in Europe. You may even deem this idea as being already born in ...1973.

This headline is misleading. For MANY more British citizens, the chance to vote in European elections was a cause for celebration.

Obviously whomever Ms Mays successor may be they will have to call for a General Election . This will give the Liberal Democrats the opening to form a Government that they have long awaited . A Liberal Democrat lead and an opportunity to form coalition with Labour , will result in a call for a second Brexit vote . Then the British people will have the same choice that others in the EU have had to face recently a vote for Democracy or Populism.

"And the European elections, typically low-turnout affairs dominated by the most ideologically motivated voters, provided an excellent opportunity for voters to flock to those parties to cast a protest vote that reflects their frustrations with the major parties." Again and again, the mainstream media continue to deny any substantive basis for the surging populist vote around the western world. In election after election mainstream parties have been flayed, gutted, and left for dead by the voters, yet it's always chalked up to the "protest vote." Middle class and working class voters, apparently, are too dense or unsophisticated to actually vote intelligently, especially when they balk at the wisdom of the intellectual classes. No, the political elite has served up a lot of great ideas, whose execution has unfortunately been botched, apparently by those who don't quite understand just how good those ideas are. So the proles just protest, and they protest, and they protest, because they can't be counted on to think properly, like those educated at Oxford, Harvard, or Yale, right?

The Brexit Party is unique among political parties in that its primary - only - purpose is to put itself out of business. Believe that and I'll tell you another.

England would be the last place where I would invest my time or money. Before the EU, my wife and I toured Europe and London. Europe had the best food and produce that we had seen anywhere in the world. London had the worst. We stuck to fish and chips and warm beer. Since the EU, England has developed into an attractive country to travel, wine and dine in. But not for long. We also enjoy people who are open to the world. England doesn't seem to be that, nor aware and proud of their once international exploration and appreciation of science and education.

In periods of major social, cultural and economic change associated with major shifts in technology, a lot of disoriented 'ordinary people', especially the poorly educated beloved of Trump, say, whose communities have usually been disproportionately affected by all the change, are easily misled by elite demagogues (like Trump, Farage and many others) into blaming some easily idenitifable 'others' (say Jews in 1930s Austria and Germany, Muslims and Mexicans, and imaginary Muslims in Mexican gangs threatening Trump's America) for changes they see as coming from outside their confused communities, disrupting some largely mythical happy past. Call it 'identity politics' if you like, but at base it's the same old, usually racist dynamic of Us v Them, used by cynical elite opportunists for millenia to get a cult of followers disadvantaged by the elites of which the snakeoil salemen are themselves a part, to challenge a dominant section of the elite from which the self-proclaimed new Leaders feel excluded. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it, and people of good will all around the world must learn from the 1930s that led to WW2 before it's too late. Otherwise we are condemned to repeat the inevitable brutally destructive consequences of earlier populism and xenophobia.

Somewhat consoling to know US voters aren’t alone in their stupidity.

The phrase "too smart by half" is two halves too high to describe these Brits voting for the Brexit party.

Brexit is in the running for the most damaging political move in the 21st century. A long way to go but it's in the lead.

Thank you for covering the #DeniedMyVote issue: "Some people complained they had been sent the wrong forms needed by European Union citizens to vote outside their home country, or received them too late." “I didn’t receive my form in the mail, but when I called the council yesterday, they said I was eligible,” Solange Martin, a French student living in London, said. “But today when I went to vote, they abruptly said no.”

Please note that thousands of EU citizens were #DeniedMyVote by being turned away at the polls because of delays in filing voting cards, clerical errors, etc. UK citizens living abroad also didn't get their vote-by-mail ballots in time. See, for example, coverage in The Guardian and BBC.

Britain needs to bring this Brexit to a close. Now this is just dragging on an exacerbating the politics. They should “crash out” if necessary. While Brexit will mostly hurt the UK, it won’t be the catastrophe predicted. Just more paperwork and bureaucracy. Some job loss, but the country will still be a top tier place in the world.

The news is that EU voters residing in the UK and UK voters residing in Europe are being turned away. Meanwhile Little England is facing an election of Boris, Jeremy or Nigel - would be better off with Larry, Moe and Curley Joe.

"...with Leavers streaming to a Brexit Party that did not exist four months ago and Remainers to the Liberal Democrats..." The latest polling shows Leavers voting for Brexit outnumbering Remainers voting for Liberal Democrats three-to-one.

It amazes me that having seen the chaos that Brexit has caused (quite different to what Farage promised them) so many in the UK will support the Brexit Party. When the English call themselves the bulldog breed for their stubbornness, they mean it.

Why is it that conservative right-wing governments are trying to destroy the foundation of western civilization? It is completely irrational!

I thought Brexit was because the EU was a faceless, unaccountable bureaucracy. How does that square with it having a Parliament with free elections? I guess it doesn't, unless you're sour grapes over the fact that your elected body doesn't do exactly what you want.

The UK should hold a second referendum. That way at least they would know its the true will of the people, and not a majority of the minority of people who voted the first time around. Plus, its a certainty that Russia interfered with the first Brexit vote, just as they will with a second Brexit vote if it were held. It's tragic stupidity to cling to a bogus electoral result.