The politicians and media pundits in the "Westminster Village", seem to be wittering that if the Labour party has failed to beat the share of the vote in the European Parliament Election of UKIP, i.e. that they are in 4th place, then this would be serious enough for their General Election prospects that Gordon Brown would have to be replaced as their leader ?
This sounds like media spin to prepare the ground for claiming a "victory" if Labour only get beaten into 3rd place by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
How will that not be defeat, pointing to a General Election rout, as well ?
It also seems likely that disgust with this NuLabour regime, will have let in the odious BNP into at least one MEP seat. They will no doubt use the European Union expenses, to trough as much money as possible, and to employ BNP apparatchiks, whilst doing nothing effective in the European Parliament, rather like UKIP have done.