Labour's
European election performances under New Labour were even worse.
Clegg's satisfaction ratings fell 16 points over the same period to -37, as voters responded to
his European elections performance.
Not exact matches
European stocks have recovered some summer losses but past
performance suggests the German
election could threaten some of the momentum.
Whereas this
performance and the 7.1 per cent in the 2014
European elections can be explained by the party's anti-EU campaign, the AfD quickly extended its programmatic appeal by incorporating positions previously abandoned by the CDU / CSU.
Tory MPs had hoped that Labour's disappointing
performances in the local and
European elections and the Newark by -
election would have finally finished him off.
The first serious attempt to change course came in May 2014, after Labour's poor
performance in the
European parliamentary
elections.
After strong
performances in the
European and local
elections and then two sensational by -
election victories there was a real buzz about UKIP.
This suggests that UKIP look to do much better than their previous
performances in general
elections, but certainly not as well as they did in the
European Parliament
elections.
Miliband was disappointed by his party's
performance in this year's
European elections and, more recently, by his party's responsibility for the failure to persuade Glasgow against independence.
Labour leader Ed Miliband, who has been visiting Thurrock council in Essex, has been tweeting his feelings on Labour's
performance in the council and
European elections.
Just look back to 2009, when Gordon Brown's
performance in the
European elections was so bad it triggered a wave of resignations that nearly toppled him.
An assessment of
European and general
election results by the think tank British Future branded the event an «outlier
election» which will do little to indicate
performance in the general
election which follows.
Figures from the interior ministry put former comedian Beppe Grillo's M5S on 21.2 % — a disappointing
performance for a movement that had vowed to be Italy's largest party at the
European elections.
The TUV's
performance will be closely monitored by rival unionist parties especially the result of its leader Jim Allister in the
European election.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has described his party's disappointing
performance in the
European elections as a «huge setback» but insisted he would not resign, vowing to «finish the job».
While my suspicion is that UKIP will be back around 5 % by May 2015, their strong
performance in the
European elections will put pressure on David Cameron, as his strategy for containing UKIP will seem to be failing.
The recent poor
performance of opinion polls in both the UK's referendum on remaining in the
European Union («Brexit») and the US Presidential
election left me wondering what they tell us about our dependence on data analytics?