Want to stop Nigel Farage storming the European elections? Then vote tactically | Gina Miller

The remain vote may split, but we can still make our votes count and halt the Brexit party in its tracks

With two weeks until the European parliamentary elections on 23 May, pollsters are predicting that no fewer than 30 of the 73 candidates for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party will be elected and so could be taking their seats when the new parliamentary session begins on 2 July. That’s more than is predicted for all the remain-supporting parties put together (excluding Labour, which still says it wants to get a Brexit deal) – which is quite a feat for a man who hasn’t presented a manifesto, disclosed his funders or come up with any details of how a post-Brexit Britain would function.

There is a very simple reason for Farage’s rosy prospects: he is facing no resistance, even though opinion poll after opinion poll shows the remain majority growing by the day. At last week’s local elections, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn would have had you believe that people deserted them and voted in record numbers for remain-supporting parties such as the Liberal Democrats and the Greens because they want to leave the UK as soon as possible, no matter how dire the consequences. That verges on open contempt for the electorate, and Trump-like spin. The EU elections provide an opportunity for the people of the United Kingdom to knock some sense into the heads of their political leaders.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2DZ6oSU