Pirates Win Seat in European Parliament

[Griffin NoName]

The Swedish Pirate Party now has a Seat in the European Parliament.

Darlica must have been working hard ?

[beagle]

I wasn't going to mention it, but both the parties I voted for beat Labour    (No, contrary to popular belief, the BNP wasn't one of them).

[Darlica]

The Swedish Pirate Party now has a Seat in the European Parliament.

Darlica must have been working hard ?

Actually no, they label them self ultra capitalists and well... I don't. In fact I rather pick up  's fallen flag. 

I despise the way authorities EU and the American government alike wanting to control the internet, saving user data, reading personal e-mails and all that. But voting for a party which main quest is to abolish the existence of copyright laws... Nah.

It has been quite an ado about this in Swedish media, personally I wonder what they will have to say about all the other issues like agriculture and foreign relations...
But never the less, I'm happy they snatched that seat from SD (Sverige Demokraterna) our Dark Blue with big brown stains, ultra conservative, xenophobic, populistic party that badly wanted to win seat to make them seem more legitimate as a preparation for our national election next year.
It seems like their tactic to campaign for almost three years wasn't successful...  



 

[Swatopluk]

Pirates did not win a seat over here but were among the most successful splinter parties (and had their highest resukt in Berlin).
I was conservative and voted Green 
I wonder what role it played that the main winners were the parties in the top spots (Chrsitian Democrats and Green) on the ballot.
It was the longest ballot I can remember (about a yard long with 31 parties).

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

The way it has been portrayed in the tech websites I read is that is a backlash against the European equivalents of the RIAA, MPAA and their heavy handed tactics (raiding servers, arresting torrent tracker administrators, suing people like there is no tomorrow, etc). The analysis is that the significant (for a supposedly 'fringe' party) success will force mainstream politicians to take note.

If that is the case it is indeed a great victory.