blowfish posted:

Ignoring their wacky Bavarian splinter group, the German conservative party CDU is to the left of UK Labour, being largely pro-immigrant, raising taxes, agreeing to implement the minimum wage now that unions aren't that strong anymore, cutting the military budget to nothing until Russia invaded Ukraine, etc. The only conservative policies left are balancing the budget with austerity (but now they're just cheating by spending more money anyway and claiming the budget is balanced due to an unexpected tax windfall) and refusing to slap the term "marriage" onto gay marriage.

The social democrats are hemorrhaging votes because the CDU has basically implemented all the main social democrat policies so now there's nothing for them to campaign on.

There's a state government led by the left and after recent state elections there'll probably another one led by greens (gently caress our greens they're dumb).

Due to there being no classical right wing party there's now a zoo of far right protest parties siphoning up maybe 15% of the vote but nobody wants to enter a coalition with them and everyone ignores their delegates in parliament.

The really far right countries in Europe are mostly in the East.