Since January, German political elites have waged an unceasing ‘fight against the Right’. For weeks at a time, the establishment press would report on little else. We have had freakouts about secret Right-wing immigrant deportation plans, we have had freakouts about Right-wing political violence, we have had freakouts about Right-wing fifth-columnists, we have had freakouts about televised political debates and we have had freakouts about Right-wing song lyrics. We have had every last kind of freakout you could imagine about the Right, all of it promoted by an absolutely deranged media establishment eager to revive pandemic-era hysteria. Then, after all of that screeching and scratching and crying and caterwauling, we had the EU parliamentary elections, and just like that – as if someone had simply flipped a switch – we have stopped freaking out about the Right.
As campaign tactics go, the ‘fight against the Right’ didn’t work as intended. The point of it, I guess, was to blackmail voters into supporting the social democrats, the Greens and the liberals, by warning them that the alternative was fascism. Nobody bought that, and all three Government parties got hammered in the European elections. The latest poll pegs their combined support at 32%.
Now the politicians of these parties are awakening with a pounding post-election hangover, and realising they’ve made a huge mistake. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, “it is dawning on the SPD that they have underestimated the importance of migration and domestic security as political issues”.
The party leadership is… in turmoil. According to BILD, General Secretary Kevin Kühnert – who was responsible for the… failed… election campaign – has been criticising the coalition internally, while the party Co-Chairs Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken are trying to maintain unity. … Analysing the election and the success of the AfD has made it increasingly clear that the party has underestimated the extent to which the issues of migration and internal security influenced the voters’ mood. …
Deputy parliamentary group leader Dirk Wiese calls for a tougher approach to limiting migration and deportations and refers to the Danish model with its tougher rules. Young Socialist leader Philipp Türmer sharply attacked Wiese on this account and said that anyone who wanted to sacrifice his own values should please follow Wiese’s lead. Wiese told the SZ: “The topic of migration must be discussed without blinders. In view of the election results, especially among young people, I can only advise the Young Socialist chairman to be more self-critical.”
The fact that ordinary Germans turn out to care more about mass migration and knife crime than they do about the threat posed by defunct 80 year-old political parties may well bring down the Scholz Government. This is because a growing number of voices within the social democrats’ own ranks are beginning to wonder whether dissolving the coalition and holding new elections might not be their least bad option.
As Margaret Thatcher said in 1976, “Socialist governments… always run out of other people’s money”, and the present socialist-headed Government of Germany has been on life support since last November, when courts overturned its accounting wizardry and blew a 60 billion Euro hole in its budget. The liberal FDP, under Finance Minister Christian Lindner, has insisted on austerity and refused all tactics to raise the debt ceiling, leaving the SPD and the Greens without any means of wooing voters with more entitlements. The plan was apparently to tell them horror stories about fascism instead, but nobody believes that’s an option anymore.
Thus the rank-and-file are beginning to sharpen their knives:
During the G7 summit in Italy… something is happening at home in the SPD… that is unprecedented in [Scholz’s] Chancellorship: there is a growing realisation that it would be better to let the coalition collapse in the summer than to go into the 2025 federal elections under the burden of a tough austerity budget.
According to the SPD, sticking to the course of austerity would be a boost for the AfD and a “nail in their coffin”. … In parallel to the internal party conflicts, Scholz must find a solution for the 2025 federal budget with FDP leader … Lindner and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens).
The FDP came out of the 2021 federal elections with more than 11% of the vote. Since then, its association with the Scholz coalition has cost it more than half of its support, and it stands a serious chance of being voted out of the Bundestag entirely in 2025. Fiscal restraint is the only reason anybody votes for the FDP, and so for the sake of its own survival, it can’t afford to give ground here – even if it means bringing down its own Government.
Pressure is growing almost daily within Scholz’s own party to confront Lindner with question of dissolving the coalition, should that be necessary. Lindner has so far refused to declare a new emergency or relax the debt ceiling. … Now the SPD is criticising the Chancellor more openly than ever before. …
The fact that Scholz initially failed to comment on the SPD’s historically poor result of 13.9% in the European elections and, above all, that he was unable to present any ideas to his parliamentary faction on how the coalition should come together on the budget… has provoked criticism. … Scholz has repeatedly said that the new budget is to be approved by the federal cabinet on July 3rd. He has sided with Lindner, who envisages budget cuts in the double-digit billion range.
Parts of the SPD parliamentary group, however, are now declaring this a red line. “We need a plan B if it comes down to the wire on July 3rd and Olaf Scholz is unable to agree to 30 billion in savings, but Christian Lindner won’t budge either,” Tim Klüssendorf, [an SPD] Bundestag representative, told the SZ. “Because there can be no such austerity budget with us.”
I have always thought that Scholz is most likely to be taken down by his own comrades. Probably his chancellorship will only see 2025 if the FDP folds, in which case the liberals will be signing their own death warrant in turn.
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The Economic Powerhouse we all admired and wished was us has committed economic and political suicide and death by climate policies. How could intelligent people think they could run their country on the wind? Because like most of the western world they are suffering the severe symptoms of the Liberal Progressive Virus that puts pretending to save the planet first and its citizens last. Here in the UK we became infected a little later than the silly Germans but are heading for the same economic collapse and destruction of our Industrial base….and all for WHAT?
That and Mutti Merkel opening the floodgates to all the scroungers.
In UK schools, if Physics and Chemistry are chosen in the Sixth Form, they have most of the knowledge to debunk the NET Zero policies. And, if they have their wits about them, they should be at least with what our politicians call ‘the Science’. And there’s always the question of the Climate Emergency having any credibility when the Sun influences our weather/Climate so much.
But there’s always the BBC to tell us what is really happening.
In a similar vein but with a focus on the U.S;
”Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who ensure that they are never subject to the baleful implementation of their ideological agendas on the rest of us.
Still, leftists look around at what they have done to America in the last four years and implicitly know that the plan did not work, the people detested it, or both.
How do we know this? By a variety of barometers.
None of the major Biden “achievements”—10 million illegal aliens across a nonexistent border, key components of the cost of living 25-30 percent higher than in 2020, wars and chaos abroad, DEI racial and tribal obsessions, wars on fossil fuels—poll at even 40-45 percent. Biden’s own approval ratings, as the nominal architect of the most left-wing agenda since the Roosevelt administration, hover between 36 and 34 percent.
Few on the left praise the disastrous COVID lockdown, the canonization of Dr. Fauci, the mask and social-distancing craze, and the gospel that endless boosters were necessary to protect Americans. Even the left, although again quietly, assumes that the lockdowns did more damage than the virus, that Dr. Fauci repeatedly lied when he swore he did not subsidize gain-of-function viral research at the Chinese top-security virology lab at Wuhan, and that the virus came not from the lab but from a wandering pangolin or errant bat.
In short, the policies that the left has given us over the last years—hyperinflation, spiking staple and gas prices, racial and tribal chauvinism, dangerous streets, an emasculated and politicized military, and wars abroad—did not work, and are now being masked to retain power, put on hold, or even reversed.
The reasons for the failure are ancient, given that socialism and progressivism are contrary to human nature.
Borders are essential to national sovereignty and confidence and delineate the unique values, traditions, and customs of a people, without which they revert to mere tribes without social commonalities and political cohesion. No society can pick and choose which national laws are enforced and which ignored—and still remain a nation of laws.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-left-knows-leftism-doesnt-work/
Great….and ofcourse for the Communists, otherwise known as Marxists, Socialists, Progressives etc it is always going to be different “the next time”, but never is and never will be.
Without national sovereignty, what’s the point of Democracy?
Whichever leftie nutcase party “wins” the current election are not going to sleep very easily on a maximum 25% of the electorate vote. Personally, I doubt it will be above 20%.
Nobody wants IKier, a wardrobe that isn’t functional, and nobody trusts the Tories even though Rishi was Dishi but is more Rag today.
My hope, and belief, is that IKier will lose the minimal support he has in the first 18 months. By 24 months he will face calls to close his wardrobe and leave office. In 2029, we can change the country.
You know who not to vote for.
“Nobody wants IKier, a wardrobe that isn’t functional”
I’ve read this a couple of times but didn’t get it
It’s bloody brilliant. Best laugh so far today.
I wonder how many inches are left.
In any case, inching sounds about right.
After decades and decades of bureaucratic entrenchment, this illiberal, control freak, my-way-is-the-only-way establishment is hard to dislodge. it’s going to require a real earthquake.
Food for thought: what if Reform get 10% of the vote and no seats but Labour change the country forever, irreversibly, on 20%. UKIP once got 5 million votes and no seats. This time is going to be three times that at least. How can any Government then claim it is legitimate?
This is why your vote matters. It isn’t about who wins, it is about what you want in the long run. If you want a wardrobe door and foul mouthed thief running the country then, by all means, vote IKier. If you want a Sham Old Guard, vote Dishi Rag. If you want a say, vote Reform: you won’t get it now but you will in less than 5 years time.
Is this actually a possibility in the future, do you think? I’d be horrorstruck if it actually became a reality. I don’t know what people think of this person’s assessment;
”The Muslims also have the Prime Minister in waiting, Sadiq Khan, who I consider the most dangerous man in Britain.
– Starmer will not last a full term.
– Khan will resign from his mayorship.
– One of his supporters will give up their seat, likely in Tooting.
– A by-election occurs, and Khan wins the seat.
– Labour leadership election takes place, and Khan emerges victorious.
– Khan becomes PM.
– The independent Muslim MPs elected this year will join Labour under Khan’s leadership.
– What happens once Khan is PM will not be pretty. In 85 years since WW2, we would have given up everything our relatives fought for.
The numerous Muslim propaganda videos released by Starmer, Khan, and Labour candidates over the weekend indicate Khan’s influence.
The Labour manifesto is heavily influenced by Khan. It is also being set-up for 2029. 50% of Muslims in the UK are under 24. Can you imagine what this looks like when Labour change voting age to 16 in this next Parliament? It’s scary.
The only hope is for Labour to severely damage the economy in the next 2-3 years and fail to deliver on their promises.
Parties like @reformparty_uk
or @SDPhq
, who have much better policies, need to be ready to take over. I support the SDP for the mid-term. In this election, we need a few Reform MPs elected to be activists.”
https://x.com/sirwg202110/status/1802442821787402636
As to Germany, well, it’s well and truly FUBAR. It doesn’t even have an option of a Farage and is stuck in the cul-de-sac EU.
Few in Britain have a clue about the current state of German Industry.
Off topic slightly but did you know the average win, in the UK, is 27% of the electorate? What if Kiernocchio gets 20%?
I came across this:
“Mr. Scholz is walking into a fiendishly complicated process where the power to decide who will become the next leader lies almost more with the two smaller parties that will be part of any future administration: the progressive Greens, who at 14.8 percent had the best result in their history; and the pro-business Free Democrats, with 11.5 percent. Together, these two kingmakers are now stronger than either of the two main parties.”
As we know, the Greens wrecked Germany on 14.8%. What can you do by voting Reform?
At least inform more people about the Legacy Parties’ dysfunctional policies, so there can be informed discussion.
It is interesting that Germany is splitting back into East and West over these issues.
I don’t think the Germans would call it interesting.