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Originally Posted by arthursmedley
UKIP is only successful in the European parliament elections as they are the only national elections in the UK that are held under the system of proportional representation. You know that system well Kongo-Otto. It gave you Hans- Dietrich Genscher for most of the latter part of the twentieth century.
Elections to our parliament, where the real power lies, take place under the first-past-the-post system, like in the US. We tend to send our failed, unwanted and unloved politicians off to become EU commissioners.
I don't think the British people as a whole have any resentment against modern Germany or Germans. In fact I'd say we have quite a lot of respect as we're fairly aware that the EU experiment has been paid for in large part by Germany.
I'm afraid our national press is another story.
Also, our politicians have never really been honest and up front to the British people about what the EU is about. We have always been told it is merely an economic area whilst the rest of europe has accepted that it's foundations were always political as well as economic.
UKIP is the chicken of this dis-honesty coming home to roost.
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Well over here the press and many people i know think that some British politicians are against the EU because they don't want to speak up open and clearly against Germany. Some German newspapers even go so far so say that British EU resentment is always not against the EU but Anti german.
Thank you for the clarification.