The Greeks Have Voted- and the British (SYRIZA, UKIP; the European Elections: political earthquakes, or just tremors?)

Update, Monday: SYRIZA

EnetEnglish

Tsipras to meet President (Kathimerini)

John Psaropoulos, The New Athenian

Greek media response (EnetEnglish)

SYRIZA Election Booth Vandalised on Corfu

Another photo

BBC

To Vima

To Vima (English)

Meanwhile, in the UK it's UKIP, from BBC

A political earthquake (The Guardian)

A very European country (Blighty, The Economist)

Tony Blair comments (BBC)

See also Guido Fawkes and the misleading, confusing ballot papers

"Speaking exclusively to Guido in the media scrum after his press conference, Nigel Farage has called for the Electoral Commission to be abolished for allowing the misleadingly named An Independence From Europe party onto the ballot papers".  A fair point. See Ballot Paper, South West Region, and the confusing, vote-splitting similarity between the first and last parties listed:

Rod Liddle, in The Sunday Times (25 May) blames the UK result on the "sneering, smearing BBC", "the arrogance of the liberal elite", the "self-satisfied, middle-class" metropolitans.

"I suspect thousands- maybe hundreds of thousands- of voters thought likewise: we have had enough of you people, with your absolutism and your sneering certainties. And your insulated London lives and easily-acquired affluence and, most of all, your disproportionate influence in this country's affairs".

In summary, he seems to be suggesting that people are tired of the traditional ruling political classes. That may be a part of the explanation, as well as a growing distrust of metropolitan journalists and the mainstream media. Unsettling and worrying times in Europe (including France and Denmark). More commentary on France

Down in Dorset

From Sunday:

From Macropolis

First round of results expected 7pm Greek time

First exit polls indicate SYRIZA in lead

Regional Election Votes (Ionian Islands)