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Old 25-09-2017, 11:32   #18
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Re: Disaster for Merkel?

Good.

For far too long Germany has had the chip of the 1920s, 30s and 40s on her shoulder, terrified that any trace of nationalism, discontent or economic issues along those lines were a rapid route to Nazism.

Hopefully she will confront the issues raised by AfD head on, deal with the issues impassively, rather than framing everything in the spectre of those dark days, and be all the better going forward.

Germany is not leading the EU economically as she should be because she's terrified of the economic events of the 20s and early 30s repeating, which is silly, so hopefully, perhaps, the AfD will achieve a quite different result from the one they want.

On another note - isn't proportional representation wonderful? Imagine how the political landscape of the UK might look if we weren't clinging on to the most undemocratic, unrepresentative voting system out there.
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