What explains the rise of ‘populist’ parties in Europe – defined as those that claim to speak for ‘ordinary people’ while opposing the ‘corrupt establishment’? Academic political scientists (who lean overwhelmingly left) have emphasised factors like austerity, income inequality and ‘disinformation’. But these theories don’t make much sense.
Populists themselves claim that they represent voters who’ve been dismissed, ignored or forgotten by the mainstream parties – that they fill gaps in political representation. Is this true? A new paper suggests that yes, it is true.
Laurenz Günther combined information from two surveys that posed the same (or highly similar) questions to voters and candidates for political office. These were the European Voter Survey and the European Candidate Survey (both fielded in 2009). By comparing the answers of voters and elected politicians, he was able to see how similar their views are on different issues, and hence how well-represented voters are by their politicians.
In terms of analysis, Günther began by creating two broad indexes. This involved calculating for each respondent (i.e., each voter and each politician) the weighted average of their views on different issues, with weights equal to the overall importance of those issues according to voters. This was done separately for cultural issues like immigration and the EU, and economic issues like taxation and public ownership. Günther then plotted the two indexes against each other on a graph:
Here the shading simply represents the density of points, with purple referring to voters and green referring to politicians. What does the graph show? While voters have similar views to politicians on economic issues (the purple cloud overlaps substantially with the green cloud on the x-axis), they are much more right-wing on cultural issues (the purple cloud is much closer to the ‘far-right’ end of the y-axis). This is the first indication that populists do fill representation gaps.
Next, Günther calculated the difference between voters’ and politicians’ views on each separate issue. He found that it was largest on criminal sentencing and immigration, with voters being much more right-wing. Hence it is these issues that drive the gaps in political representation.
He then calculated each party’s representation gap with respect to the average voter on the two indexes mentioned above, and graphed the results. As you can see, mainstream parties are much more left-wing on the cultural index. Consequently, nationalist parties are (with a few minor exceptions) the only ones that represent culturally right-wing voters.
In the final part of his analysis, Günther used data from Germany to show that voters who are not well-represented by mainstream parties with respect to immigration (as measured by the difference between their views and the views of politicians from the closest non-AfD party) are much more likely to vote for the right-wing populist AfD. Which is pretty much a smoking gun for the representation gap theory.
Forget all the pontificating about austerity, inequality and disinformation. What’s happened in Europe over the last ten years is simple. A sizeable number of voters wanted less immigration but none of the mainstream parties represented them. As a result, populist parties came in to fill the gap.
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https://www.thebernician.net/papers-laid-alleging-pandemic-fraud-against-hancock-whitty-vallance-ferguson/
PCP Papers Laid Alleging Pandemic Fraud Against Hancock, Whitty, Vallance & Ferguson
At 16:23 pm this afternoon, one year after the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens’ decision to reclassify COVID-19 as no longer being considered a High Consequence Infectious Disease was published by Public Health England, the papers were laid electronically at a south London Magistrates Court, in the People’s Union of Britain’s momentous Private Criminal Prosecution against Matt Hancock, Chris Whitty, Patrick Vallance and Neil Ferguson for pandemic fraud.
Early next week, the court will receive a 1,200 page bundle of evidence, which includes expert witness statements from two professors, three doctors, a dental surgeon, a probate solicitor, a mathematician, a retired nuclear submarine data analyst, an independent data analyst and a former CID fraud detective, who is acting as a trustee of the PUB in bringing this most serious of prosecutions to the criminal court.
Declaration SoughtIn addition to the charges of fraud by false representation and non-disclosure, in material breaches of sections 2 and 3 of the Fraud Act 2006, we are informally applying for a declaration, under the inherent powers of the court, which states that autopsies are to be carried out for all alleged COVID deaths, which will be held as evidence in the forthcoming trial, on the ground that we have expert witness testimony of the falsification of death certificates, as per UK Government policy.
We are also asking for a moratorium on the UK flu and COVID ‘vaccinations’ programmes to be declared for period of at least 90 days, in order to definitively establish whether it is COVID-19 or ‘vaccines’ that are killing people at a minimum mortality rate of 377 per 100,000 healthy adults, as per the leaked WHO approved ‘vaccine’ safety study which we are adducing into evidence.
Boatload of Prima Facie Evidence
They told us they wanted more prima facie evidence when we made the last application in late 2020, seeking the arrest of Matt Hancock for fraud by non-disclosure over the declassification of COVID-19 by the ACDP.
Well, now they have a veritable boatload of the stuff heading their way, so prepare yourselves for the inevitable shitstorm on the near horizon, after the defendants’ QC’s tell them that their only defence is to plead gross negligence. However, the evidence is so emphatic that they knew exactly what they were doing that the jury will almost certainly convict them as charged.
Nevertheless, don’t expect the defendants to be wheeled off in handcuffs to Belmarsh by tomorrow morning. Whilst it is just about conceivable that the court’s legal department could make an initial assessment of the case by the end of next week, even if it happens that swiftly, the matter will then be passed to the Chief Magistrate of the UK’s legal department, which will probably take at least another week to make their assessment.
Potential Turnaround
In the event all of that is turned around within the next two weeks, the case would then be passed to a senior district judge, who must then decide whether to grant the applications for the summonses and the declaration, whether on paper or at a hearing.
If the summons application is granted, a pleading hearing would then be listed to take place within the next couple of weeks. This would take us to 28 days from now and probably represents the earliest time that the defendants will be summonsed to plead in the Magistrates Court. The informal application for the declaration would also be dealt with at that hearing.
Given the seriousness of the charges and the urgency of the situation, with clear evidence of fraud with murderous consequences already adduced into evidence, we will then ask the court to list a trial by jury at the very earliest opportunity, which will almost certainly take place at the Old Bailey.
If and when all of that transpires rests on the judgment of a single district judge, who will necessarily have experience dealing with such serious charges. However, it is the considered opinion of the former CID fraud detective and the team behind the scenes who have supported me every step of the way that the Statement of Case is “monumental”, “truly historical” and:
PCP Papers Laid Alleging Pandemic Fraud Against Hancock, Whitty, Vallance & Ferguson
https://www.thebernician.net/papers-laid-alleging-pandemic-fraud-against-hancock-whitty-vallance-ferguson/
This means you’re doing great Europe!
Keep up the good work!
“Only 16% of the UE’s population has received the jab, compared with 52% in the UK.”
So – the corporate EU isn’t as bad as the monarchic UK :-), even given pursuit of similar objectives. I always thought Brexit was a bit of a red herring.
Note what the vaccine fanatics are now implying (courtesy Uncle Tom L. Henry) : that ethnic minority populations are a bit thick if they don’t gobble up vaccines.
A lovely boost for racism.
Racism is good when it suits Der Regime
Maybe it is supposed to go slow… we dont want the end to come to soon… not until the vaccine passport system has been developed.
#SAGE is the new STUPID
Another pro vaccine message from LS. This is only been a success in the UK by terrifying the living shit out of the whole population, and you think this is a good thing?? So who knew the people of Europe have been told the truth about the risks and think its a bit dodgy and more importantly they can see they are not at risk from a mild seasonal virus. Why are you not supporting this action and why are you taking this evil government side? THEY ARE PLANNING ON INJECTING CHILDREN FOR FUCKS SAKE. WAKE UP!
I don’t think this by published on LD is a sign of provaccine in LD.They are just publishing a news which can’t be surpressed.It will just stimulate a considered angry response.WHO and side effect of drugs? They have no idea just lead by other agencis which they pick and chose.
Read Bakhti letter again to EMA completely dismisses WHO having no clue at all in side effects.Kluge is one of the worst in WHO,sadly working in Europe,being proLD(contrary to David Nabarro another WHO director) and with this in mind no surprise at all applauding a mass vaccination of all.