Across Europe parties opposing Net Zero and mass immigration are gaining power as millions of citizens shift their allegiance towards populist Right-wing parties. Sue Reid in the Mail has the story.
The dramatic development will transform the EU if the swelling wave of populist sentiment translates into political power at the bloc’s parliamentary elections next year.
In a backlash against open borders and Net Zero diktats, the EU’s traditional social democrats, green ideologues and Left-wingers are losing their appeal at the ballot box.
The rebellion has been growing — and the dominos continue to fall.
Right-wingers have gained power in Sweden, then in Italy, Finland and Greece.
The Spanish could be next, with national elections in a week, then Holland and — as I reported in these pages earlier this week — Germany could soon follow.
Our map [below] shows that more than a third of the EU’s 27 member nations are now run, or highly influenced, by populist-style Governments or factions. All favour halting uncontrolled migration, tackling crime, promoting traditional families and pausing hated EU laws aimed at forcing people to alter their lifestyles to reach Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The change in political outlook means the EU, a bloc rooted in technocratic social democracy, may soon become too liberal for the ordinary people living within its borders.
Hans Kundnani, a European political analyst at the international think-tank Chatham House in London, says the surge of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war for Germany in 2015 is the genesis of the European “convergence… of the centre-Right and the far-Right over the past decade”. The shift, he adds, may have “profound consequences for the EU”.
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“…shift to the right”
As in “not quite so far-left as before”.
I wish we could scrap all this left right rubbish.
Basically, it’s those who think everyone should be told what to do versus those who just want to be left alone.
It isn’t so much left and right now. More like National Identity, Culture and Values versus Erasing National Identity, Culture and Values. ——The idea being that we are all softened up to be governed by technocrats we never heard of and never voted for and we all feel like citizens of the world and all pretend to save the planet by lowering our living standards to that dictated to us by phony green (red) ideology.
Yeah the busy body control freaks versus the the rest of us who just want to get on with their lives.
This applies to traditional “conservative” parties but not to the relatively new populist parties. This is why in countries where people have the chance to do so they aren’t abandoning left leaning parties for established “right wing” parties but instead switching to the genuinely right wing populist parties.
It’s quite telling that the self-appointed democrats, ie, the remote-controlled partycrats, have inventend a special invective – populist – for people or parties championing causes which actually have popular support. If these so-called democracies where really governed by and for the people, all politicians and political parties would be populist.
It’s a Maoist technique – keep calling names hoping they’ll stick.
100% agree.
ate we to describe everyone who values security of borders, energy and freedom as “right wing”?
Of course! And “racist,” of course.
Hmm. That sounds like a dangerous populist opinion to me. We’d better ‘nudge’ him. If that doesn’t work we’ll have to recalibrate.
It’s more commonly called far right, far right extremist, white supremacist, or if you are talking to someone with green hair all of the above plus nazi, racist, fascist transphobe. Oh yes and climate change denier.
Right wing in name only, Poland and Italy are still giving out hundreds of thousand non-eu visas, do they all follow the religion of GDP numbers?
After looking at the survey results linked to in this article the numbers in all of the categories still don’t look so favourable for my liking. Many people still need to pull their heads out of their arses and see what’s going on regarding the various agendas that are playing out all around them. I feel there’s still too many being either completely naive or willfully blind. I’m really not sure how many are clued up and how many are just sleepwalking through their daily lives, paying no heed to the bigger issues. However, with polls and surveys I do take the results with a huge pinch of salt;
”Almost one in four EU citizens consider immigration to be one of the two most pressing concerns currently facing the bloc, the biannual Standard Eurobarometer survey conducted by the European Commission has found.
Some 24 percent of respondents placed the issue of immigration in their top two concerns, meaning a quarter of Europeans consider the matter to be more pressing than either the ongoing cost of living crisis or the international situation regarding Ukraine.
More respondents are concerned about immigration than they are about the environment and climate change (22 percent), the economic situation (17 percent), and the supply of energy (16 percent).
The number of respondents worried about mass immigration into the bloc has increased by seven percentage points since the last Commission survey conducted in January this year.
The survey was published at a time when the European Union’s population increased from 446.7 million to 448.4 million last year, as revealed in data published by Eurostat on Wednesday.
A negative natural change — meaning there were more deaths than births registered in the bloc last year — was outnumbered by positive net migration as the latest migrant crisis continued to inflate Europe’s population.”
https://rmx.news/migration/immigration-is-a-major-concern-for-1-in-4-eu-citizens-and-trust-in-the-bloc-is-waning-survey-shows/
Addendum: Speaking of Germany, I really hope he straight away gets arrested and done for wasting the emergency services time. No sympathy for masochistic morons!
”German Eco activist screams in pain after emergency service workers try to unstick his hand after he glued himself to the road.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1680195005439156224
When the UK shifts from ‘Conservative’ to Labour in a year or so, that will be a shift to the right as well.
This is lazy, badly informed journalism that wheels out meaningles phrases and tropes like “populist”.
In Spain rhe leader of the supposedly right wing popular party can be seen often sporting an Agenda 2030 lapel pin.
There is no populist uprising, certainly not one in any election because the system is completely rigged in pretty much every county. Political representatives are puppets. And those that aren’t get destroyed pretty quickly.
1/3 is a start
Yes, I also wondered if the term ‘populist’ was being used as a disparaging shorthand for those who oppose the narrative. The term has never been formally defined (other than as a way of categorising the undesirables) and is therefore used in a very casual way. The populism that is driving election results in Europe is simply an expression of the view of the people. As I sometimes say, populism is what you call democracy when you don’t like the result. That’s about as close to a formal definition as I think we’ll get!
In the UK there is a gap for an economically left wing, anti-immigrant, pro-borders, tough on crime party. I.e. the ‘red wall party’. Not sure why nobody is taking advantage of this. Unfortunately the moderately nationalistic, genteel soft-libertarian parties of Reform and Reclaim have limited appeal. Tice could do worse than keeping all the same policies but changing the name of the party to Free Workers Party or something.
Its frustrating that the Red Wall might swing back to the globalist penis-denier Starmer.
“…Not sure why nobody is taking advantage of this.” Well it is because these policies are beyond the globalist pail, and because as a nation we are so indebted, we are forced into submission, as I’m sure Lord Starmer of Davos would agree.
“The change in political outlook means the EU, a bloc rooted in technocratic social democracy, may soon become too liberal for the ordinary people living within its borders.”
High time journalists stopped calling these people “liberal” when they are demonstrably some of the most illiberal, entitled, malignant, narcissistic fascists on the planet right now. Or is this is all part of the panto? I often wonder more frequently by the day…
Meh, some of us would like to own something in 2030 plus we’ve seen Communism, Marxism and all the other ‘isms’ & the people we trust the least are politicians, scientists, experts, govt institutions, NGO’s, Philanthropists and especially software salesmen masquerading as medical professionals!
An awful lot of wishful thinking going on in this article I think.
As for political earthquake.. rearranging the deckchairs more like. How many of these so called ‘populists’ are like a stick of rock with WEF written along its full length.. Maloni for one..
Orbán was on the WEF Global Leaders for Tomorrow programme and the Soros Foundation funded him to go to Oxford Uni, for another. His COVID regime was savage, with up to 5 years in prison for spreading “misinformation”. “In the end, everyone will have to be vaccinated; even the anti-vaxxers will realize that they will either get vaccinated or die.”