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Pirate Party may gain seat in EU Parliament

25 points by javanix 17y ago

erikstarck 17y ago
No. In the EU Parliament. The election in Sweden is in September 2010. And this was just one poll.
ktharavaad 17y ago
Makes me wish there's US equivalent political organization to the pirate party. or is there?
- behe 17y ago
  There is. http://pirate-party.us/ http://pirate-party.us/
cturner 17y ago
I'm based in Islington, and have a background in copyright and internet regulation campaigns. By complete coincidence - also have a missing left eye ('maties!'). I've been unable to find details for any UK organisation (there appears to have been one but it may be defunct?) but am interested in getting one set up, hopefully in time for UK elections. If any British readers are interested - 'mailto:%s'%os.sep.join( ['craig', 'cowoh', 'org'] ) I'm doing manual spam processing for the moment as part of a project so be careful with subject lines :)
- danw 17y ago
  Try talking to the Open Rights Group http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ - they have an event on in Clerkenwell this evening - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2294908/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2294908/
  - cturner 17y ago
    Thanks for the link. It was sold out, and I went to the pub afterwards but had no way of identifying the group. But with the link I can get in touch with them.
c1sc0 17y ago
I'm happy to be living in Germany right now, for in my home country (also EU member-state)there is no significant pirate party. vote++ Like most single-issue parties, I'm a bit sceptical about their voting intentions on other issues once they do have a seat, but it is important to have dissenting voices in a healthy democracy.
patrickg-zill 17y ago
Isn't there a correlation between number of pirates, and global warming, according to the guy who thought up the Flying Spaghetti Monster? And sure enough, we have more pirates and are seeing a small period of cooling...

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Pirate Party may gain seat in EU Parliament

25 points by javanix 17y ago

erikstarck 17y ago
No. In the EU Parliament. The election in Sweden is in September 2010. And this was just one poll.
ktharavaad 17y ago
Makes me wish there's US equivalent political organization to the pirate party. or is there?
- behe 17y ago
  There is. http://pirate-party.us/ http://pirate-party.us/
cturner 17y ago
I'm based in Islington, and have a background in copyright and internet regulation campaigns. By complete coincidence - also have a missing left eye ('maties!'). I've been unable to find details for any UK organisation (there appears to have been one but it may be defunct?) but am interested in getting one set up, hopefully in time for UK elections. If any British readers are interested - 'mailto:%s'%os.sep.join( ['craig', 'cowoh', 'org'] ) I'm doing manual spam processing for the moment as part of a project so be careful with subject lines :)
- danw 17y ago
  Try talking to the Open Rights Group http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ - they have an event on in Clerkenwell this evening - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2294908/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2294908/
  - cturner 17y ago
    Thanks for the link. It was sold out, and I went to the pub afterwards but had no way of identifying the group. But with the link I can get in touch with them.
c1sc0 17y ago
I'm happy to be living in Germany right now, for in my home country (also EU member-state)there is no significant pirate party. vote++ Like most single-issue parties, I'm a bit sceptical about their voting intentions on other issues once they do have a seat, but it is important to have dissenting voices in a healthy democracy.
patrickg-zill 17y ago
Isn't there a correlation between number of pirates, and global warming, according to the guy who thought up the Flying Spaghetti Monster? And sure enough, we have more pirates and are seeing a small period of cooling...