Raise Game for Euro Elections ; He Campaign for the European Parliament Elections Will Get Under Way Shortly and We As a Country Really Need to Lift Our Game. For Too Long the European Elections Have Been Treated As Little More Than a Dry Run for General Elections. That Will Certainly Afflict This Year's Contest, Given Gordon Brown Must Call a General Election Within 12 Months.

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He campaign for the European Parliament elections will get under way shortly and we as a country really need to lift our game. For too long the European elections have been treated as little more than a dry run for general elections. That will certainly afflict this year's contest, given Gordon Brown must call a general election within 12 months.

Every political party, most of the media and huge numbers of voters consider both this June's European elections and the simultaneous local elections as simply a giant opinion poll on Westminster.

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Raise Game for Euro Elections ; He Campaign for the European Parliament Elections Will Get Under Way Shortly and We As a Country Really Need to Lift Our Game. For Too Long the European Elections Have Been Treated As Little More Than a Dry Run for General Elections. That Will Certainly Afflict This Year's Contest, Given Gordon Brown Must Call a General Election Within 12 Months.

The relative strengths of the national parties may be riveting but the omnipresent shadow of Westminster functions primarily as a malign eclipse over other elections, distorting the desperately needed debate abo...

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