Obsessed as we are with our own domestic contretemps over the EU referendum, the 'result' of the Austrian presidential election barely caused a ripple. But perhaps Dave and his cronies should take a long look - or perhaps they already have!
For lack of coverage in our own media I have had to rely on Sierra Rayne at The American Thinker. She (I assume she is a 'she') has taken a hard look at the exceedingly dodgy results. As you know, it was a head to head clash between a soppy 'Greenie' and a hard Rightist who was virulently anti-EU. A count of the in-person polls showed that the Right had it by 51.9-to-48.1%. The next day they 'counted' the postal vote, which had already been opened earlier than the law allowed, and guess what, the 'Greenie' had over-turned the personal vote and won 50.35-to-49.65%. This meant that the pattern of the postal vote differed from the personal vote by around 25%. Well, that's how they do things 'just over there'!
Anyway, I trust that the Brexiteers are keeping an exceedingly close watch on the postal vote 'over here'!
VOTE LEAVE
Even now I expect Cameron, Clegg and Corbyn are organising the postal vote.
Posted by: backofanenvelope | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 11:30
I would not be surprised.
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 11:39
Little Austria might be ground zero for a European revival. Its citizens may be dealing with the reality of just what the official political Left will do if it must to keep power. This is normal behavior for the Left and they justify it simply because of who they are and more so, by just who or what any opposition to them amounts to. I'm struck by how badly the Green Party lost the working middle class vote.
No free people should trust the Left of today.
http://www.socialmatter.net/2016/05/24/austria-flashpoint-clash-civilizations/
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 12:46
I suspect the 'fix' is already under way. Among people I know almost nobody wants to stay in yet the polls are reporting even support - just right for remain to claim a slight victory with the minimum of fraudulent votes?
Like you I distrust the Austrian result, and also note the way the french parties worked together to keep out Marie LePen.
Posted by: woodsy42 | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 14:33
For what it's worth, I e-mailed my Vote Leave contact and told him that I hoped the bosses were making sure they had plenty of observers at the count. He assured me they do.
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 15:10
One of the reasons we cousins need to be reading each others' blogs, etc, is that we can learn a great deal about the tricks the other side is using. We might not have figured out that importing cheap third-world labor means importing easy Socialist votes. Thanks for the heads up. Now watch closely as your vote counts are manipulated. We have a hundred year history of that, and many more such occurrences in the past fifty six years. Kennedy won the Presidency in the rot-wards of Chicago, and the Dems' fiefdoms in South Texas.
Beware!
Posted by: Michael Adams | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 16:25
"We might not have figured out that importing cheap third-world labor means importing easy Socialist votes."
Well, Blair and Brown worked that one out and Obama and the Dems learned the lesson which is part of the reason why this may be the last chance for the Republicans to win a presidency.
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 17:35
Don't worry toooo much, DD. The right/Tories/Republicans etc. are always being told they'll never win again - and yet they generally do, eventually.
Posted by: H | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 18:29
You may be right, 'H', but we haven't had Tory government here since 1990! And we certainly do not have one now.
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 19:29
"For what it's worth, I e-mailed my Vote Leave contact and told him that I hoped the bosses were making sure they had plenty of observers at the count. He assured me they do"
And you believed him ?
I stand behind Willard Duncan Vandiver - you have to show me !
kind regards
Posted by: david morris | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 21:33
Once again I had to depend on 'Uncle Wiki' but thank you, David, yet again I learn something new!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 21:52
I believe the MSM have been leaned on not to publish exit polls for the EU referendum.
If so, this is presumably so that the discrepancy between the exit polls and the "official" result is not too obvious.
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Thursday, 02 June 2016 at 12:35
Also, on the matter of who wins elections, Juncker has recently made it clear how things are now:
"Under powers given to the commission in 2014, he [Juncker] can trigger a “rule of law mechanism” for countries that depart from democratic norms by putting a government under constitutional supervision. Ultimately, a country can be stripped of voting rights in the EU or have funding blocked."
For the avoidance of doubt, in this context "depart from democratic norms" means elect a government that doesn't hold the approved left-wing standard opinions on everything.
In other words, elect a government you like but the EU doesn't, and they will remove it.
Remember, they already did this in Greece and in Italy; they're making threatening noises at Poland right now, and Hungary is probably next on the list.
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Thursday, 02 June 2016 at 12:42
"In other words, elect a government you like but the EU doesn't, and they will remove it.". It's becoming clear who and what your enemy is.
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 02 June 2016 at 13:07