Why mainstream political parties are losing ground and fringe parties have become mainstream?

 

Just a decade ago, CDU/CSU used to call the shot in German politics and European politics. In fact, the German Chancellor and the French President used to have the final word in quite a few of the most important decisions made by the European Union.

But it must be said that CDU/CSU had to cohabitate with SPD in a marriage of convenience and this lasted until CDU/CSU fell catastrophically opening the way for the unthinkable: a coalition between German Conservatives FPD, SPD Social Democrats and Grüne Socialists.

The EU Parliament Elections have shown a rebirth of CDU and allowed AfD to surpass SPD while FPD and Grüne have fallen.

The call is very straightforward: German peoples do matter and must be the main priority for Germany. Decades of open doors and policies that mainly benefit non Germans have been rejected by German voters that face a very uncertain future as German economics has been seriously undermined both by environmental policies and an energy crisis that has increased energy costs and cut energy supplies.

Pushing forward environmental policies at the expense of the German economy is not good policy. The first two gigantic mistakes were made by Angela Merkel when she decided to get rid of nuclear power and open the floodgates for migration. Her almost unilateral decisions created animosity in Eastern Europe as most people coming to Germany had to go through Eastern European countries to reach Germany. Then, she made the equally astonishing statement ´Multikulti ist tot´ (Multikulturalism is dead). We are not in the mind of Angela Merkel, but we can guess that since then she has regretted getting rid of Nuclear Power and of having open the floodgates for migration.

By the end of her reign as German Chancellor, her own political party was not ready to give her a blank cheque. In order to remain as German Chancellor she was forced to resign as Leader of the CDU.

In France, Emmanuel Macron saw that he could not go on as usual when his official candidate for Prime Mnister got barely 15% in the European Parliament Elections. The decision to call for a Parliamentary Election was not easy but it had to be taken. Left, Right and Centre rejected his policies. Now, on June 30th and on July 1st, he faces the challenge and the possibility of having a Rassemblement National Prime Minister and a hostile National Assembly till the end of his term as French President. Emmanuel Macron will still have veto power, but from a political point of view he might have to deal with policies that go very much against his own policies. So both in the French Assembly and in the European Parliament decisions would be in the hands of Rassemblement National.

 

Unternehmen Le Pen: a very canning strategy

 

Never underestimate the Le Pen family. Read between the lines. Marine Le Pen knew fairly well that much of the French electorate would not support Front National if she were to stick to Monsieur Le Pen approach to politics. So Front National went from Front National to Rassemblement National and started to capture the attention of voters who were more willing to support the new approach. 

In the meantime, Marine Le Pen saw that many Front National followers would not approve the changes and something needed to be done. This is where Marion Maréchal-Le Pen (now Marion Maréchal) had a role to play. As Monsieur Le Pen would not be the right card, Eric Zemmour would take the flag with Marion Maréchal at his side and rally all voters that wanted to follow the traditional lines of the Front National because in any case in a first round it would make little difference, but it will matter in the second round and the French Presidential system is about ballotage. Once a nationalist party gets to the second round of the ballotage, all votes can be added up to ensure that there is strong foundation for a nationalist movement at a time when the choice is clear: continuity with Macron or change with Le Pen. 

Brexit: Trust in Democracy can only be restored when politicians deliver on what they promise

Brexit: Trust in Democracy can only be restored when politicians deliver on what they promise

Anna Soubry was called Nazi by a protester in front of the Houses of Parliament. That was a wrong thing to do because she isn't a Nazi. 

Having said that there is one claim that can be made. She has failed to deliver what she promised to her voters and to the Nation..The same has happened with other Members of Parliament. After the Expenses Scandal and several other shortcomings, Brexit would have been the golden opportunity for Parliament to redeem itself. Instead, trust in Parliament is at an all time low. But trust in Parliament is not the only one issue. There has been a loss of faith in Democracy.

Five days before a crucial deadline to leave the European Union, nobody knows with certainty what it is going to happen. There is a power struggle between the Executive namely the Prime Minister and the British government and Parliament. Parliament has been wrestling control away from the Executive and this poses questions about the foundations of Democracy that stands on Division of Powers - Executive, Legislative and Judiciary.

The authority of the British Government has been eroded but also the authority of the leaders of political parties has been eroded with renewed accusations of Anti-Semitism made against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party and of Islamophobia against the Conservative Party as a whole. This is happening when unity within the two main political parties should exist to ensure sustainable governance.

Since the General Election of 2017, there has been a hang Parliament in which the Conservative Party had to negotiate an alliance with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. There have been so many conflicts that several key members of both the Conservative Party and of the Labour party decided to resign their membership of their political parties and even a Liberal Democrat MP resigned the whip of his party because of disagreement with regards to his political party's position concerning Brexit.

To the already complex political situation, where do the British Armed Forces stand? Apart from a scandal created by the revelation that active members of the Armed Forces have joined a now banned organisation called National Action, a video was published showing members of the Armed Forces doing shooting exercises using a poster with the image of Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Opposition, as a target.

Fears regarding an European Parliament Election that Britain might have to take part in have encouraged political parties that the mass media have classified as Far Right to participate in the said European Parliament Election at a time when in Continental Europe there is a mood that would produce great political gains for political forces opposed to the European Union Project.

In France, where last time around Emmanuel Macron was offered as an alternative to the then Front National and now Rassemblement National, President Emmanuel Macron is not just the least popular President in the history of France. For the first time, the French people hate a French President. This puts Rassemblement National in pole position to obtain a vast number of seats in the European Parliament.

In Italy with a political alliance of Right and Left and in Germany there is the possibility of getting many anti-EU Members of the European Parliament Elected. In recent elections in Germany, Alternative für Deutschland entered every single one of the sixteen state Parliaments and is the official opposition in the Federal Parliament.

With this in mind, will the present authorities of the European Union agree to an extension that would allow a massive number of anti-EU Members of Parliament to be elected and make decisions regarding the European Commission and the long term budget of the European Union? 

The coming week promises to be even more crucial not just for Britain but also for the future of the European Union.

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Women are at the Forefront of Nationalist Success

Women are at the Forefront of Nationalist Success

Marine Le Pen

Alice Weidel

Why French Nationalism and German Nationalism are succeeding when British Nationalism is falling apart? 

The answer is very straightforward: because many who call themselves British Nationalists are just a bunch of idiots who live very much in their chauvinistic past having an approach to women's rights and women's roles that is not much different from the approach Islamic Extremists have when it comes to women's rights and women's roles. 

Many so called British Nationalists are stuck in a very backwards attitude towards women and this is one of the fundamental reasons that they fail, fail and fail all over again.

The Nationalist Movement in Britain needs women and most importantly it needs young supporters to be relevant and to stay relevant. Unfortunately, when the average age at any meeting is about 60, the number of women is few and far between and the young are almost literally absent, the Nationalist Movement in Britain is a dinosaur having its last breath.

Practically in every country there is a natural balance, an almost 50/50 ratio of men and women and it is irrational to pretend that any political movement can be successful when too many male followers want women 'to play their more traditional role'.

British Nationalism is critically fragmented with a vast array of groups whose leaders hate each other. They call themselves political parties when in fact whenever there is a rally you will find that people from different groups (political parties) are in attendance making up the numbers. They are hanging around in spite of the fact that if their identity and affiliation became visible they would not be able to join the groups/political parties they go out to support.

For example, when For Britain or UKIP organise a rally, you will find people from National Front, British National Party, British Democrats, English Democrats, EDL and others in attendance. They can be in attendance but they are not members nor will be knowingly allowed to become members of For Britain or UKIP. If found out, many of those who have joined in would be expelled. The whole situation is absolutely irrational and this happens on the one hand because of political correctness and on the other hand because there isn't a coherent political approach in terms of membership and in terms of a real political programme.

People from different political organisations might stand together on the streets to show that they are against something but they could hardly stand together as one political force because they differ regarding practically everything else. When you start asking those in attendance about specific issues you immediately see that the gesture of standing together and been seen standing together for the sake of numbers is just that. 

Without real leadership, there can be no such a thing as British Nationalism. But the vacuum created by lack of leadership becomes a very real threat. If there was a truly organised and coherent British Nationalist Movement, Britain would be safer. In more than one way, the British Establishment and the Mass Media have been promoting violence. If there had been a truly organised and coherent British Nationalist Movement, Jo Cox would still be alive. The practices of discrimination, political persecution, demonising, discrimination and exclusion promoted by the British Establishment and the mass media - in particular the BBC - promote violence. When people who have very legitimate views and very legitimate concerns are treated as terrorists, when people are disenfranchised, those with extremist views thrive.

Both Rassemblement National (National Rally) and Alternative für Deutschland are extremely relevant, coherent, consistent and purposeful organisations that exist for the common good. They are very valid alternatives within a Democratic Framework. Britain desperately needs the British version of Rassemblement National and Alternative für Deutschland at a time when so called mainstream political parties have become an absolute mess to the point that Democracy itself is in serious danger. When you vote Labour, what do you vote for? When you vote Conservative, what do you vote for? Now many Labour Parties are there? How many Conservative Parties are there? How can it be democratic to be asked to vote for candidates you don't know what they stand for?

For many Labour and Conservative voters, voting Labour and voting Conservative is a bit of a gamble. If you support Jeremy Corbyn but live in an area where a anti-Corbyn candidate is standing, do you vote for the said Labour candidate? If you support Jacob Rees-Mogg but live in an area where the Conservative candidate standing is against Jacob Rees-Mogg, do you vote Conservative? What we have got is not even a shadow of Democracy. Including the option 'None of the Above' on the ballot paper would be a sensible thing to do in spite of the danger that 'None of the Above' gets the highest number of votes.