Brexit Party Ltd.

@guyverhofstadt @eucopresident @ElectoralCommUK @EU_Commission
What's wrong with the UK? How can such a company (https://t.co/JxkFtnBEk5) participate in the EU elections? Is this a scheme to get around the rules for parties or EU elections?https://t.co/ebKouUqNfQ

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) May 5, 2019

To @Wahlleiter_Bund: Would it be possible in Germany for a company like e.g. "Dexit-Partei GmbH" without party members to compete against regular German parties in the 2019 EU election?

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) May 5, 2019


 

Ok, here’s a question @Nigel_Farage. Where did you get my mum’s name & address from? She’s not on public register. Do all campaigns now have the official register?? Or is it from your database @Arron_banks? Or yours @TBorwick? Where’s the data from?? pic.twitter.com/MhBt577TTO

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) May 5, 2019

EU Election System in the UK

Multiple political parties (Greens, Change UK) believe there is no need for Remain parties to coordinate because the election is held under proportional representation. This is wrong, and misunderstands the role of district magnitude

— Chris Hanretty (@chrishanretty) April 17, 2019

District magnitude = number of representatives elected per district/constituency. The magnitude of the regions used for EP elections ranges from 3 (NE England) to 10 (SE England)

— Chris Hanretty (@chrishanretty) April 17, 2019

The smaller the magnitude, the greater the "effective threshold", or vote share required to get elected in that district

— Chris Hanretty (@chrishanretty) April 17, 2019

A rough rule of thumb: the effective threshold is 75%/(m+1), where m is the district magnitude https://t.co/wPof0jFwYo

— Chris Hanretty (@chrishanretty) April 17, 2019

For a ten-seat region, you probably need 75/(10+1)= 6.8% of the vote to get elected. For a three seat region, it's ~19%

— Chris Hanretty (@chrishanretty) April 17, 2019

You cannot (easily) move from these regional thresholds to national thresholds https://t.co/wPof0jFwYo again pic.twitter.com/RJhinUPYWQ

— Chris Hanretty (@chrishanretty) April 17, 2019

But district magnitude (rather than methods of seat allocation like d'Hondt) are what create incentives for parties to coalesce

— Chris Hanretty (@chrishanretty) April 17, 2019

 Effective threshold in electoral systems

The Real Brexit Cliff Edge Is Not on March 29th – It’s July 1st

This is a superb article from @IanDunt, but its inevitable conclusion is not going to be popular. Better to be informed, I say. Must-read.https://t.co/6aCWXyqKgi

— Lindsay Bruce (@RogueCoder250) February 22, 2019

 

http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/02/21/the-real-brexit-cliff-edge-is-not-on-march-29th-it-s-july-1s:

[…] The real cliff edge is on July 1st, the day before the inaugural plenary session of the newly-elected European parliament. That’s the dead zone. If you haven’t taken part in the upcoming European elections, there’s no way to extend the deadline any further. So something is becoming increasingly clear. If Labour really is committed to ruling out no-deal, if moderate Tory Cabinet ministers really mean it when they say they refuse to allow it to happen, they must support British participation. This is, by far, the most important aspect of the whole Brexit debate. And there is almost no mention of it at all. []

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