DOCSLIB.ORG

UNISON Active Magazine – Spring 2015

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
UNISON Active Magazine – Spring 2015 ELECTION SPECIAL UNISON 2015 THEACTIVE! MAGAZINE FOR MEMBERS IN YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE SPRING 2015 | ISSUE 20 | £3 WWW.UNISON-YORKS.ORG.UK If Cameron wins on May 7 will the last person to leave the public service please turn out the lights PLEASE YOUR USE ( ) VOTE WITH NO APOLOGIES TO THE SUN UNISON members struggling through an unexpected crisis can get help from ‘there for you’ by:- Contacting their Branch Welfare Offi cer Calling us on 020 7121 5620 You can also fi nd out more information by visiting our website www.unison.org.uk/get-help/ - Financial assistance help-with-problems-at-home/ - Debt advice there-for-you/ - Wellbeing breaks Registered charity number 1023552 - Support & information Please make sure our members are aware of the help that is available in these diffi cult times. SPRING 2015 UNISON ACTIVE! 03 WELCOME THE KEY TO VICTORY e’re in the But many people redundant or who’ve OurUnion midst of the have still not left and not been DAVE closest registered – they risk replaced. General Secretary W PRENTIS Dave Prentis election in living having no voice and And if David GENERAL Regional Secretary SECRETARY memory – even no say over who Cameron remains in John Cafferty hardened political wins in May. There charge, there’ll be no Regional Convenor pundits say the result is still time to sign let-up in the cuts. Wendy Nichols is too close to call. up but the deadline Much worse is UNISON With everything to is April 20. coming down the Yorkshire & Humberside play for, the attention Since 2010 track if – despite all Commerce House, Wade Lane, Leeds LS2 8NJ between now and UNISON members their attacks on T: 08000 857 857 or freephone polling day is all on working in hospitals public services – the textphone 08000 967 968 W: www.unison-yorks.org.uk 100 or so key and local councils Tories somehow marginal seats – as across Yorkshire and manage to form a Lines are open 6am-midnight Monday-Friday and it’s here that the Humberside have government in May. 9am-4pm Saturdays election will be won. been on the receiving So don’t let them Several of these are end of the destroy the public Editor in Yorkshire and the Government’s harsh services you care so Barrie Clement Humber – in austerity programme. much about. Don’t Consulting Editor constituencies like Pay frozen or held leave the NHS and Mary Maguire Bradford East and back, spending local services at the Chief Photographer Dewsbury where the slashed, services mercy of the Tories Jim Varney votes of UNISON axed, hard-pressed for five more years. Contributors members could prove staff working hours of Make sure you have Peter Carroll, Amanda Dixon, Ryan Fletcher, Helen Hague, Mary Maguire, crucial in determining unpaid overtime to a vote on May 7 – Anne Mitchell, Paul Routledge and Tristram Sterry who gets the keys to cover for colleagues and use that vote No 10. who’ve been made wisely. Cover Image Adapted from Sun newspaper. David Cameron: Valsts kanceleja / State Chancellery, Rga, Latvija / Wiki Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Let’s kick out the tax dodgers license, Lightbulb: Somchai Som / Shutterstock In the past five years our defend jobs and services. Published on behalf of UNISON by WENDY members have suffered a The Care UK strikers in Doncaster not only Century One Publishing Ltd. NICHOLS sustained and vicious attack on held out for 90 days to protect their own pay Alban Row, 27-31 Verulam Road REGIONAL St. Albans, Herts AL3 4DG their jobs and incomes from the and conditions, they also set the agenda for a CONVENOR T: 01727 893 894 Tory-led Coalition. national debate about privatisation. F: 01727 893 895 E: [email protected] W.Nichols From the start, they set out The Labour Party has pledged to put a halt W: www.centuryonepublishing.uk deliberately to destroy unions and to further NHS privatisation by abolishing Advertising enquiries privatise the public services which all of us the Health and Social Care Act the David Murray T: 01727 739 182 rely on. Government rushed through Parliament. E: [email protected] The Tories and their allies hate public Meanwhile, thousands more jobs will go in Design and art editing services and – even more – the very principle local government as a result of huge central Miny Sharma and Sarah Ryan of unions defending the rights of government budget cuts. T: 01727 739 189 E: [email protected] members who provide the We must get rid of this Government next services.s month and the only way to do that is to vote Printed by Unison Print But we have not folded. Labour. Copyright reproduction in whole or part by UUNISON has led the fight We cannot wake up to find this any means without written permission of the publisher is strictly forbidden. UNISON and aagainst this corrupt bunch of heartless, the publisher accept no responsibility for errors, omissions or the consequences GGovernment. We have tax dodging thereof. ffoughto back at every turn millionaires have © UNISON 2015 aand fully supported our somehow clung on mmembers in every form of to power. We must aaction they have taken to vote them out. 04 UNISON ACTIVE! SPRING 2015 ELECTION NEWS SPECIAL More battles ahead over NHS pay More than two-thirds of UNISON members working in the NHS voted to accept the latest pay offer after a last minute concession from the Government. The members were due to take further strike action in their long- running pay dispute with the Con-Dem Government. They were outraged when ministers refused to accept a recommended one per cent pay rise / Shutterstock Apatsara Image: proposed by the independent pay review body. negotiation. to be done in future to and justice. The offer which was But he said the issue of bring about real and “The fact that there is a accepted included a one fair pay for NHS workers lasting improvements. General Election per cent payment for staff has not “Our members have approaching is probably up to senior level, an gone away been targeted by this why the Government has extra £200 for lower paid and there Coalition Government for come up with an offer, to staff and the bottom level is much the past five years. They avoid industrial action for of pay boosted to £15,100 more have suffered years of pay the time being. a year. freezes, which are pay cuts “Their record on the UNISON’s regional in reality as prices rise. NHS is appalling and they head of health, Tony “The industrial action want the health service Pearson, said the offer they have already taken pushed as far off the was the best that could shows they are prepared political agenda as have been gained through to stand up for fairness possible.” Tony Pearson Heather wins the argument over facility time at York council Attacks on facility time lay officials to represent saved by employers employer. for UNISON activists to colleagues after listening through reductions in “But this is not an ‘us represent members are to the arguments of workplace injury and and them’ arrangement. still a grave threat as the branch secretary Heather illness every year. Facility time is a sensible Taxpayers’ Alliance McKenzie. Heather said: “One of and cost effective means pushes its anti-union She reminded them of the lines of argument is of ensuring good agenda. their legal obligations that they are in favour practice and fairness. Councillors in York regarding time off to of the system but want But I have no doubt this voted against a proposal represent members, and our members to pay for will rear its head again to slash paid time off for of the millions of pounds it instead of the somewhere else.” SPRING 2015 UNISON ACTIVE! 05 Only Labour can stop the destruction of our public services There is a simple and Government,” said Ken. tax avoiders and Tory inflicted on ordinary stark choice for UNISON “I would say to Party donors to pay the working people and their members at the everyone, whether they tax they owe. He has families. forthcoming General are traditional Labour stood up to the “They are openly on Election, says regional supporters or not, go out powerful elites who the side of the rich and Labour Link chair Ken and vote for the only have dictated powerful. They cut the Curran. party that can Government policy for top rate of tax for He says that if the realistically stop the so long. millionaires and did Tories retain power, either Con-Dems from piling “It is clearly in the nothing to tackle tax outright or in an alliance even more needless pain interests of all trade avoidance. with other right-wing on our communities. union members, and all “That’s why they parties, they will complete Only one party can do working people, to get donate fortunes to the the destruction of our that.” this government out of Tory Party - for ‘services’ public services they set Ken believes Labour office. rendered. We have to rid out to achieve in 2010. and Ed Miliband are “I hope all of us ourselves of them.” If Labour gains power, offering voters genuine make sure our they will repeal the change for the better, families and privatisation charter characterised by the friends are known as the Health and battle with David registered to Social Care Act, clamp Cameron over MPs’ vote and that down on mass tax second jobs. they use that avoidance and invest the He said: “He has vote for resulting income in pledged that if he gains Labour.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Conservative Party
    Royaume-Uni 73 élus Parti pour Démocrates libéraux Une indépendance de Parti conservateur ECR Parti travailliste PSE l’indépendance du Les Verts PVE ALDE l'Europe NI Royaume-Uni MELD 1. Vicky Ford MEP 1. Richard Howitt MEP 1. Andrew Duff MEP 1. Patrick O’Flynn 1. Paul Wiffen 1. Rupert Read 2. Geoffrey Van Orden 2. Alex Mayer 2. Josephine Hayes 2. Stuart Agnew MEP 2. Karl Davies 2. Mark Ereira-Guyer MEP 3. Sandy Martin 3. Belinda Brooks-Gordon 3. Tim Aker 3. Raymond Spalding 3. Jill Mills 3. David Campbell 4. Bhavna Joshi 4. Stephen Robinson 4. Michael Heaver 4. Edmond Rosenthal 4. Ash Haynes East of England Bannerman MEP 5. Paul Bishop 5. Michael Green 5. Andrew Smith 5. Rupert Smith 5. Marc Scheimann 4. John Flack 6. Naseem Ayub 6. Linda Jack 6. Mick McGough 6. Dennis Wiffen 6. Robert Lindsay 5. Tom Hunt 7. Chris Ostrowski 7. Hugh Annand 7. Andy Monk 7. Betty Wiffen 7. Fiona Radic 6. Margaret Simons 7. Jonathan Collett 1. Ashley Fox MEP 1. Clare Moody 1. Sir Graham Watson 1. William Dartmouth 1. David Smith 1. Molly Scott Cato 2. Julie Girling MEP 2. Glyn Ford MEP MEP 2. Helen Webster 2. Emily McIvor 3. James Cracknell 3. Ann Reeder 2. Kay Barnard 2. Julia Reid 3. Mike Camp 3. Ricky Knight 4. Georgina Butler 4. Hadleigh Roberts 3. Brian Mathew 3. Gawain Towler 4. Andrew Edwards 4. Audaye Elesady South West 5. Sophia Swire 5. Jude Robinson 4. Andrew Wigley 4. Tony McIntyre 5. Phil Dunn 5.
    [Show full text]
  • European Elections in the UK Media Briefing 7Th May 2014 UKIP and the 2014 European Parliament Elections
    European Elections in the UK Media Briefing 7th May 2014 UKIP and the 2014 European Parliament elections Dr Philip Lynch ([email protected]) & Dr Richard Whitaker ([email protected]) University of Leicester UKIP and the 2014 European Elections Philip Lynch ( [email protected], @drphiliplynch ) and Richard Whitaker ( [email protected], @rickwhitaker ) Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester UKIP go into the 2014 European elections in a far stronger position than they did five years earlier. The crucial differences are first, that UKIP have not experienced the decline in support in general election polling that they normally do after a European election. On the contrary, they are now consistently placed in third position in polls of general election vote intentions. Second, their ratings in polls of European election vote intention are some ten points higher on average than they were in the run up to the 2009 contest for seats in the European Parliament (EP). Third, they have more than double the number of members and a much better, even if still small base in local councils having secured 147 seats in the 2013 local elections. Fourth, while they have benefitted in the past from Conservative supporters lending UKIP their vote, they are in an even better position to do so this time around given that the Tories are now in government. On top of that, if UKIP’s campaign to win even more support from working class voters is successful, they will make headway in areas where Labour are traditionally strong. The presence of the Liberal Democrats in government alongside the collapse of the BNP add to the auspicious conditions for UKIP in 2014.
    [Show full text]
  • Citizenship After Orientalism
    1 Citizenship after Orientalism 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 9781137479495_txt.indd 1 6/25/15 3:10 AM 1 Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions 2 Series editors 3 4 Michele Michiletti is Lars Hierta Chair of Political Science at Stockholm University, 5 Sweden. Ludvig Beckman is Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University, 6 Sweden. David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of 7 Southampton, UK. 8 9 The Editorial Board: Keith Banting (Queen’s University, Canada), Rainer Baubock 10 (European University Institute, Italy), Russell Dalton (University of California at 11 Irving, USA), Avigail Eisenberg (University of Victoria, Canada), Nancy Fraser (The 12 New School for Social Research, USA), David Jacobson (University of South Florida, 13 USA) and Ariadne Vromen (The University of Sydney, Australia). 14 This series focuses on citizenship transitions encompassing contemporary 15 transformations of citizenship as institution, status, and practice as well as normative 16 and explanatory analysis of these transformations and their cultural, social, 17 economic, and political implications. The series bridges theoretical and empirical 18 debates on democracy, transnationalism, and citizenship that have been too 19 insulated from each other. It takes citizenship transitions as its starting point and 20 studies the status, role, and function of citizenship within contemporary democratic 21 systems and multi-layered governance structures beyond the state.
    [Show full text]
  • Conservative Meps Delivering for Britain
    CONSERVATIVE MEPS DELIVERING FOR BRITAIN 446766-ECR-BROCH-MEPs.indd 1 17/09/2018 15:00 446766-ECR-BROCH-MEPs.indd 2 17/09/2018 15:00 CONTENTS PAGE • Introduction by Syed Kamall MEP and Ashley Fox MEP 4 • Delivering Brexit 6 • Keeping Europe Safe 7 • Backing Business, Cutting Red Tape and Boosting Jobs 9 • Transport 11 • Delivering for Consumers 12 • Delivering for Farmers 14 • Delivering for Fishermen 15 • Protecting the Environment 16 • Improving Animal Welfare 18 • Promoting Britain Abroad 20 • Championing Free Trade 21 • Foreign Affairs 23 • Development 26 • ECR Group & Conservative Friends of the ECR 27 • A Better Europe 28 • Conservative MEPs 2014 - 2018 30 • Reports Authored By Conservative MEPs 2014 - 2018 31 3 446766-ECR-BROCH-MEPs.indd 3 17/09/2018 15:00 INTRODUCTION BY SYED KAMALL MEP CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVES AND REFORMISTS GROUP In 2006 British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Czech counterpart Mirek Topolanek formed the Movement for European Reform to promote the idea of an open, flexible and non-federalist Europe. They were soon joined by Poland’s Law and Justice Party and, following the European elections in June 2009, the European Conservatives and Reformists Group was born. It pledged to challenge the status quo in the European Parliament, where deals were often struck by a handful of party leaders behind closed doors. Not surprisingly our political opponents tried to block us, predicting that the ECR could not last. They were wrong. To the surprise and chagrin of many in Brussels, we emerged from the 2014 elections as the Parliament’s third largest group with 70 MEPs from 15 different member states and myself as chairman.
    [Show full text]
  • MEP Contact Details
    Annex 2: MEP contact details Below is a list of all the UK MEPs, along with their room numbers and email addresses. There are multiple MEPs for each constituency. The list of English MEPs includes the counties that make up each constituency. You can also find their details online at www.europarl.org.uk/en/your-meps.html. Please write (letter or email) to one or more of the MEPs for your region. If you are sending a physical letter, international standard postage to Belgium costs £1.00 and takes 3-5 days to arrive. All MEPs can be reached in writing at: [Insert MEP name here] European Parliament Bât. Altiero Spinelli [Insert the MEP’s room number here] 60 rue Wiertz B-1047 Brussels, Belgium Constituency MEP Name Room Email No. Northern Ireland Ms Martina Anderson (Sinn Fein) T0514 [email protected] 5 Ms Diane Dodds (Democratic 11G20 [email protected] Unionist Party) 6 Mr Jim Nicholson (Ulster 04M04 [email protected] Unionist Party) 7 Scotland Mr David Martin (Labour) 13G15 [email protected] 7 Mr Ian Hudghton (SNP) 04F35 [email protected] 3 Mr David Coburn (UKIP) 03F15 [email protected] 1 Mrs Catherine Stihler (Labour) 13G35 [email protected] 5 Dr Ian Duncan (Conservative) 06M08 [email protected] 7 Mr Alyn Smith (SNP) 04F34 [email protected] 3 Wales Ms Jill Evans (Plaid Cymru) 04F37 [email protected] 4 Constituency MEP Name Room Email No. Mr Nathan Gill (UKIP) 03F15 [email protected] 5 Ms Kay Swinburne 04M08 kayswinburnemep@welshconservativ es.com (Conservative)
    [Show full text]
  • Download Our Media Guide in PDF Format
    1 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT INFORMATION OFFICE IN THE UK MEDIA GUIDE 2014 - 2019 This guide provides journalists with information on: • The European Parliament and its activities • The 2009 and 2014 European elections • A Who’s Who in the European Parliament • Press contacts • What the UK Office does Björn Kjellström Olga Dziewulska Head of UK Office Press Attachée Tel: 020 7227 4325 Tel: 020 7227 4335 Disclaimer: All information in this guide was true and correct at the time of publication. Updated information can be found on our website. www.europarl.org.uk @EPinUK 2 3 Introduction by Björn Kjellström, Head of the European Parliament Information Office in the UK Every 5 years over 500 million people in the EU have the power to choose who will represent them in the European Parliament, the world's most open and only directly elected international parliament. Our mission is to raise awareness of its role and powers, of how political differences within it are played out and of how decisions taken by its Members affect the UK. These decisions have a huge impact on everyday life and it makes a big difference who decides on our behalf. Since journalists and the media in the UK play a key role in informing citizens about how the work of the European Parliament affects them, we hope that you will find this guide useful. 4 The European Parliament Information Office in the UK Our Role: We do our best to reach as broad a spectrum of society as we can – both face to face, online and in print.
    [Show full text]
  • Briefing Paper 11.30
    Briefing Paper 11.30 www.migrationwatchuk.com Immigration at the Party Conferences 2013 Summary Immigration was the dog that prowled but didn’t bark. As expected, UKIP majored on it but did not make any policy announcements. Labour put forward a series of relatively trivial policy suggestions but there was little recognition of the mass immigration that they had triggered in government and no commitment to any significant reduction. The Conservatives claimed credit for the reductions achieved so far and renewed their commitment to net migration in the tens of thousands. The Lib Dems said as little as possible. Liberal Democrat Conference 2013 • Nick Clegg made only passing mention of immigration in his speech. He took credit for ending the detention of children in the immigration system and made clear his opposition to the “Go Home” vans campaign launched by the Home Office. • The party held a session entitled “Consultative Session on Immigration, Identity and Asylum”. The Speakers were Sir Andrew Stunnell MP and Louise Higgins. The consultation document for this event can be read here: http://www.libdems.org.uk/siteFiles/resources/docs/conference/2013%20Autumn/Policy/115%20-%20 Immigration,%20Asylum%20and%20Identity.pdf • Sir Andrew Stunnell mocked the Lib Dems’ regional immigration policy that was part of their 2010 manifesto. He said that regional quotas would not have worked without an identity card system. He also criticised the Conservatives’ net migration target and claimed that it had been undermined by the economic recovery, which had led to less people emigrating.1 • David Laws, at a fringe event organised by the New Statesman also criticised the Conservatives’ immigration target, saying it was meaningless because it did not include EU migration.
    [Show full text]
  • THE BETRAYED NATION April 2019 ​ News and Views from the Freedom Association Theresa May’S Treachery Goes On
    THE BETRAYED NATION April 2019 ​ News and views from The Freedom Association Theresa May’s treachery goes on . and on THE BETRAYED NATION J’Accuse . ! The duplicity and treachery of Theresa May appears to know no bounds. Yes ​ she is dishonest, yes she has betrayed both her party and her country, yes she is the worst Prime Minister ever. But her deceitfulness has been aided and abetted by her fellow travellers in the Conservative Party. Her betrayal of Brexit could never have been achieved without the complicity of those who willingly do her bidding. For nearly 30 years, the Conservative Party has betrayed and undermined almost everything that its members and voters believe in and care about. It took us into what was then the EEC, it signed away so much of our independence at Maastricht, it cut our armed forces to the bone, it has undermined the fight against crime, it has increased taxation to record levels and has interfered in our lives more than Labour ever did. We were expected to swallow this because we were told that a Labour Government led by Jeremy Corbyn would be even worse. Now even that has been shown to be a cynical ploy to justify Brexit betrayal. Appalling though Theresa May is, a majority of her MPs have kept her in place, seemingly more fearful of the prospect of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister than they are of a woman prepared to go cap in hand to Jeremy Corbyn, whom the Jewish Labour Movement has declared, “unfit to be Prime Minister”.
    [Show full text]
  • Front Cover with Photo – Balloon Or Elections Logo
    1 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT INFORMATION OFFICE IN THE UK MEDIA GUIDE 2014 - 2019 This guide provides journalists with information on: The European Parliament and its activities The 2009 and 2014 European elections A Who’s Who in the European Parliament Press contacts What the UK Office does Björn Kjellström Olga Dziewulska Head of UK Office Press Attachée Tel: 020 7227 4325 Tel: 020 7227 4335 Disclaimer: All information in this guide was true and correct at the time of publication. Updated information can be found on our website. www.europarl.org.uk @EPinUK 2 3 Introduction by Björn Kjellström, Head of the European Parliament Information Office in the UK Every 5 years over 500 million people in the EU have the power to choose who will represent them in the European Parliament, the world's most open and only directly elected international parliament. Our mission is to raise awareness of its role and powers, of how political differences within it are played out and of how decisions taken by its Members affect the UK. These decisions have a huge impact on everyday life and it makes a big difference who decides on our behalf. Since journalists and the media in the UK play a key role in informing citizens about how the work of the European Parliament affects them, we hope that you will find this guide useful. 4 The European Parliament Information Office in the UK Our Role: We do our best to reach as broad a spectrum of society as we can – both face to face, online and in print.
    [Show full text]
  • European Parliamentary Election for the Yorkshire and the Humber Region Thursday 23 May 2019
    European Parliamentary Election for the Yorkshire and the Humber Region Thursday 23 May 2019 Statement under rule 56(1)(b)(i) – (iv) of the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004. I, Tom Riordan, herby give notice that at the European Parliamentary Election in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region held on 23 May 2019: The number of votes cast for each party was: Party name Number of votes Change UK – The Independent Group 30162 Conservative and Unionist Party 92863 English Democrats 11283 Green Party 166980 Labour Party 210516 Liberal Democrats 200180 The Brexit Party 470351 The Yorkshire Party 50842 UK Independence Party (UKIP) 56100 The total number of ballot papers rejected was 7103 And I do hereby declare that the undermentioned are duly elected as the six Members for the said electoral region: Candidates elected Name Address Party 28 Cornwall Road, John Longworth Harrogate, North Yorkshire, The Brexit Party HG1 2PP 9 Haughgate Close, Lucy Elizabeth Harris Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Brexit Party IP12 1LQ 48 Low Ash Drive, Shipley, Richard Graham Corbett West Yorkshire, Labour Party BD18 1JH 28 Norborough Road, Shaffaq Mohammed Tinsley, Sheffield, Liberal Democrats S9 1SG 198 Wensley Street, Magid Magid Sheffield, Green Party S4 8HN 12 De Parys Avenue, Jake Pugh Bedford, The Brexit Party MK40 2TW The number of votes which each successful party had during the process of allocation of seats was as follows: Party Vote total Allocation The Brexit Party 470,351 Seat one The Brexit Party 235,176 Seat two Labour Party 210,516 Seat
    [Show full text]
  • Different Shades of Black. the Anatomy of the Far Right in the European Parliament
    Different Shades of Black. The Anatomy of the Far Right in the European Parliament Ellen Rivera and Masha P. Davis IERES Occasional Papers, May 2019 Transnational History of the Far Right Series Different Shades of Black. The Anatomy of the Far Right in the European Parliament Ellen Rivera and Masha P. Davis IERES Occasional Papers, no. 2, May 15, 2019 Transnational History of the Far Right Series Transnational History of the Far Right Series A Collective Research Project led by Marlene Laruelle At a time when global political dynamics seem to be moving in favor of illiberal regimes around the world, this re- search project seeks to fill in some of the blank pages in the contemporary history of the far right, with a particular focus on the transnational dimensions of far-right movements in the broader Europe/Eurasia region. Cover Photo: Protesters of right-wing and far-right Flemish associations take part in a protest against Marra- kesh Migration Pact in Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 16, 2018. Editorial credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutter- stock.com @IERES2019 Of all European elections, the one scheduled for May 23-26, 2019, which will decide the composition of the 9th European Parliament, may be the most unpredictable, as well as the most important, in the history of the European Union. Far-right forces may gain unprecedented ground, with polls suggesting that they will win up to one-fifth of the 705 seats that will make up the European parliament after Brexit.1 The outcome of the election will have a profound impact not only on the political environment in Europe, but also on the trans- atlantic and Euro-Russian relationships.
    [Show full text]
  • European Parliament Elections 2014 RESEARCH PAPER 14/32 11 June 2014
    European Parliament Elections 2014 RESEARCH PAPER 14/32 11 June 2014 Elections to the European Parliament were held across the 28 states of the European Union between 22 and 25 May 2014. The UK elections were held concurrently with council elections in England and Northern Ireland on 22 May. The UK now has 73 MEPs, up from 72 at the last election, distributed between 12 regions. UKIP won 24 seats, Labour 20, the Conservatives 19, and the Green Party three. The Liberal Democrats won only one seat, down from 11 at the 2009 European election. The BNP lost both of the two seats they had won for the first time at the previous election. UKIP won the popular vote overall, and in six of the nine regions in England. Labour won the popular vote in Wales and the SNP won in Scotland. Across the UK as a whole turnout was 35%. Across Europe there was an increase in the number of seats held by Eurosceptic parties, although more centrist parties in established pro-European groups were still in the majority. The exact political balance of the new Parliament depends on the formation of the political groups. Turnout across the EU was 43%. It was relatively low in some of the newer Member States. Part 1 of this paper presents the full results of the UK elections, including regional analysis and local-level data. Part 2 presents a summary of the results across the EU, together with country-level summaries based on data from official national sources. Oliver Hawkins Vaughne Miller Recent Research Papers 14/22 Accident & Emergency Performance: England 2013/14.
    [Show full text]