We did a story on this a while back. Looks like it the general public didn’t get as worked up over it as those directly involved. What a suprise.
The Swedish national elections on Sunday ushered in a huge shift in the political landscape of that country — but failed to bring the copyright reform movement its first political victory.
The Pirate Party not only failed to score the 4 percent required for a seat in Sweden’s Parliament, but appears to have missed the 1 percent that would have afforded the party state assistance with printing ballots and funding staff in the next election.
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The results were surprising and disappointing for the party, which has been bathed in online buzz since it was founded. But U.S. and other elections have shown that online momentum often fails to turn up political results.
This is the problem with one issue parties. Most of the electorate are much more sophisticated and want responsible representatives that will respond reasonably in any circumstance.
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All they had to do, was find a respectable person In their group…
NOT just run as a party, but put up a figure head.
Maybe they ain’t got brains. Why did they not call it the Viking Party? That would be cool.
Maybe it was hard to vote when you couldn’t just say ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG! for people to know what you want.
online momentum often fails to turn up political results.
The sooner people wake up to this one the better. And yes.. nice party, but they were seen as a one issue party, which is probably a fair criticism.
However if they keep it up and keep vocal.. they will get support.
ARRRRRRRRRR maties
I just can’t wait to poke fun at a friend of mine who belongs to that party XD