No! The General Election is not a protest ballot.
The European Parliament I voted to make our MEPs redundant - not to elect a government. Thus it didn't matter who the MEP was, because they would have no power and be made unemployed shortly. The General Election is not the same thing, I would never have done that in a General Election.
You did something stupid that does have some consequences. The most obvious consequence of the stupid thing you did was that you helped waste money—some of which is yours—on 29 useless or downright harmful MEPs. As a protest vote, your vote has had no positive effect on your position in the Brexit negotiations or Brexit process; had you voted for productive and competent MEPs, you would've increased the likelihood of at least someone getting value for money for the duration of their tenure, however short or long that may prove to be.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
@randy
Delivering Brexit is something that the cat of number 10 could have done, so your standard for 'consequential PM' is rather low. It eludes me why you think that getting a worse deal than May is proof of anything positive about the man.
Sad that you are still members tomorrow.
Congratulations America