Apathy Party sweeps EU elections

I’ve been reading coverage of the EU elections on a couple of different news sites. Seems like things went more or less to predictions – the mainstream parties lost some traction and the far right gaining some, with maybe the strength of the Green vote being the only good news.

The coverage was all about breaking down the results; how many seats this bloc or that bloc might be able to coral in the European Parliament. What they didn’t mention was the largest bloc of all, the non-voters.

At 49.5% of eligible voters, the Apathy Party was the clear winner in this election. Given that the whole of Europe has had it drummed into their skulls for the last year that the “future of Europe hangs in the balance,” apparently lots of folks were not convinced of the urgency of the matter.