European parliament election knocks out Spain's Socialist leader

Tuesday, May 27th 2014 - 09:24 UTC

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Spain’s Socialist opposition leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba has stepped down after his party suffered its worst election result on Sunday's ballot for the European Parliament. Socialists lost nine European parliament seats, while the the ruling conservative People’s Party lost eight. Read full article

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Briton
Cough.
May 27th, 2014 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
This “Churches” guy reminds me of TTT.

““We will work with others from the south of Europe to send a message that we do not want to be a colony of Germany or the Troika,” added Iglesias.” And especially the British (he may have added).

Well, it's all going swimmingly for the EU as most want to leave it.

I wonder if Gollum2 will continue with his verbal diarrhea over Gibraltar? I mean it has worked so well for them so far!
May 27th, 2014 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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tRoll_with_the_Punches
Hmmm... He did not add Britain because as everyone knows but deluded you, Britain is NOT Germany, nor it is even close.

Everyone knows you are artlessly trying to associate Britain with the patina of Germany, but it doesn't work because no one is dumb as you are.
May 28th, 2014 - 01:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 3 TTT

Moi?

Ha, ha, ha.
May 28th, 2014 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Clyde15
Fine, if they want to pay their way, good luck to them.
May 28th, 2014 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
Ah, that could be the sticking point.

They want all the benefits but not the bills too.
May 28th, 2014 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Well that's 5 against one,
and 3 loses...lol
May 28th, 2014 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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bushpilot
Another example of why it is impossible for government to stop borrowing.

Once the people get used to that level of spending, they scream bloody murder to high hell if anyone tries to cut the borrowing and the associated spending.

It's not a new saying, “you shouldn't borrow in the first place”.

EU says, “look, we'll bail you out but we have some conditions that we think will help”. People say, “Oh, the tyranny of it all!!! You're colonizing and oppressing us. Then politicians say, ”OK, we'll continue doing what has already caused us tons of grief“. Brilliant!!

All Merkel said was, ”you need to be competitive“. You have to do something that somebody is willing to give you money for. You have to generate money somehow!! I guess she's a colonizer for that sound advice.

And the ”professor“, says, ”that's a terrible idea”. If he ever gets into power, he'll turn out to be a bum because he's only feeding people's fantasies, just like Hollande did in France. And Merkel will hand over more cash now too.
May 28th, 2014 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
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“Britain is NOT Germany, nor it is even close. ”

Correct but we give £50m a day into the EU and I doubt Spain are paying that much-so if we leave the EU, yes Germany won't lose but the countries bumming off Britain's money (like scroungers Spain) will.
May 29th, 2014 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
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Excellent point.

Pete @9 confirms this.

Thanks for saving me the time to post this!
May 30th, 2014 - 02:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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