Quote Originally Posted by jam666 View Post
Is the best excuse that someone can come up with they stayed at home? What a pathetic excuse this is for doing bad in the recent elections. Its rather obvious that the majority of britain believe that brown should go and that a general election should be called as witnessed by the recent results of the polls.

Why would a general election be any different. If these same groups of voters cannot be so called "botherd" to go out and vote and instead just sit at home why do you think a general election will bring them out of their shell so they can vote labour?. This is quite stupid because they will not vote labour as they could not be botherd to go and vote in the local and european elections. instead they just stayed at home.
You appear to have forgotten that the Conservatives won the most European seats in 2004, then Labour won the General Election in 2005. Either a lot happened in a year or Oli is correct. Most people really aren't bothered about the European elections, since they don't think it makes a difference.