The Daily Telegraph: The Conservatives took 28.6 per cent of the vote, with UKIP winning 17.4 per cent. Labour scored only 15.3 per cent, narrowly beating the Liberal Democrats on 13.9 per cent.
What the Tories had better learn fast is that if they don’t switch their position on Europe, UKIP is going to pass them up too. The English are quickly figuring out that it doesn’t matter what party holds a majority in Westminster when all the laws that matter are being passed in Brussels. And across the rest of Europe, it’s clear that the people hate the way the commissars of the EU have permitted immigrants to invade their countries en masse.
It’s no wonder the unelected EU Commission is so vehemently anti-democratic. They can’t afford to let the people have a voice in their own governance since nearly everything the Euro-elite stands for is directly contrary to the will of the people. The reason the socialist parties fared poorly across Europe is that everyone knows they are more pro-EU than the moderate parties currently in power. If those parties prove unwilling to significantly weaken the reach of Brussels, and based on some of William Hague’s comments last night, it would seem they are not, anti-EU parties such as UKIP and the BNP will come to dominate their national electorates far more rapidly than anyone presently believes possible.