When doing nothing becomes an option

Leaving the analysis, commentary and rationalisations to others, the outcome of the Euro elections is not so much a wake-up call for Labour as one of being bodily lifted out of bed and thrown into the street.

Strange inconsistencies whereby the Tories come first in Wales on numbers that were below their 1999 result and the BNP take two seats with less votes than at the last election bolster the overall impression that hundreds of thousands of Labour voters just stayed home.

Which goes to prove that, sometimes, doing nothing can be the most effective protest of all.