More power to people like Pascual, whose one-man bands need to be encouraged in the list elections we use for the Euro elections. It is neither affordable or encouraging to be an independent in the Euros.

I understand that the post was meant as humour and by making a serious point I show (yet again) that I have no sense of humour - but I will make a serious point anyway.

Those people who wish to remove the extra layer of government that is the European Union (with all the cost of its regulations and so on - and the knock on effects for national and "regional" government) do have a party to vote for today and that party stands a good chance of winning some seats and thus making a point.

But only if people vote for it.

Update - in spite of so many anti E.U. groups being on the ballot paper (in the East Midlands at least one of these groups was fake - set up simply to have a similar name to UKIP in order to confuse the voters) the United Kingdom Independence Party did very well in the vote.

Also the Conservative party did run on a manifesto of taking back powers from the E.U. (whether Mr Cameron and co are to be believed is another question).

Therefore 7 out of 10 people in Britain voted for less power for the E.U.

70 per cent.

Is this a clear enough vote for the elite to see?

Most likely not.