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punk rebel ecks posted:

Didn't know that Germany was that left wing when it came to worker representation. I always saw Germany as the number two most right wing modern European country after U.K.

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.

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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Bismarckism strikes again.

~~Petri Heil~~ Heil Petry

# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 10:29

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Comrade Koba posted:

Voting for a left-of-center political party actually means you want to bring back Soviet-style Communism. Got it.

SPD is centre left. ~~PDS~~ Die Linke is very left.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 11:17

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Tesseraction posted:

To some extent, yes. Primarily because Tito was happy to work with the west, so didn't suffer the same economic deprivation of the greater Soviet bloc.

To add to what forkboy84 said, it's worth mentioning that in the United Kingdom our Upper House can block legislation indefinitely, much like the Senate in the United States, but the Parliament Acts added in a caveat that something in a party's General Election Manifesto has the right to overrule a Lords' vote. This is why, for instance, Tony Blair managed to implement a ban on fox hunting despite the Lords voting it down every time it came through to them.

Of course, in practice the ban hasn't changed anything, it just means hunting saboteurs have a legal leg to stand on. It hasn't actually stopped rich people from hunting foxes because, well, they're rich. The law doesn't apply to them.

It also bans one specific type of fox hunting, so anyone who just gets a license and shoots his shotgun at foxes can continue to do so.

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