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delbert wrote: Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:12 pm Far right....... :crylol:
I have to be honest, I don't know too much about Mr Sunak - but I've heard he's not really that concerned about climate change or Human's impact on the planet - but he doesn't come across as far right.

America had Obama from 2008-2016 (who I consider the best President of my lifetime) then trump for 4 years & now Biden.

trump is more a populist than far right* & Biden is considered Socialist by some of America but is probably more aligned with Sunak or Moderate Right politics of Europe.

* - although his Presidency allowed Mitch McConnell - an old school far right white supremacist christian - to load the US Law Courts with his ilk for decades to come.
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Finnish elections today: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/fi ... r-AA19o6zK

Close to a three way tie.
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This is causing much laughter in Hungary.

https://english.atlatszo.hu/2023/03/28/ ... rtonfalva/

Basically in a town in Hungary they built a woodland canopy walk with the help of an EC grant. However the contractors spent all the money but did a pretty shitty job. So the mayor in order to fund the repairs, chopped down all the trees to sell the timber.

He has of course come in for some criticism but in his defence there were no stipulations made by the EC on how tall the trees had to be.
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That has to be an April Fools Day thing, surely? Image
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bubbles1966 wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2023 8:44 pm Finnish elections today: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/fi ... r-AA19o6zK

Close to a three way tie.

Aaaaaah , Sanna Marin , my favourite Prime Minister of any country ever .
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I Googled ' "Una culona inchiavabile" and it came up with ' A Lockable booty ' . :grin:
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Swiss hold a referendum over Net Zero targets and setting them into law.

The act sets out CO2 emissions milestones to ensure Switzerland meets net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and reaches its international climate commitments and sees a gradual reduction of imported fossil fuels in favour of Swiss-made renewables to improve energy security.

Businesses will be incentivised to invest in green technologies.

Subsidies for homeowners to replace electric, gas or oil heating systems with more climate-friendly heat pumps.

Passed by 59.1% of voters.

This is the future. We need to get going ourselves.

Swiss approve net-zero climate law
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Weren't we the first to have a law on this?
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Hopefully he will struggle to form a government. Even if he does somehow manage to find enough other parties to work with him some if his policies will never be imposed.
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The latest in a string of similar outcomes across Europe.

Italy, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, even Sweden. All of them have these type of characters winning or yielding significant influence in government. The French and Germans are edging closer too.

The likes of Russia, Turkey etc are playing on the soft centre.
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Essexmaniac wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:07 am Hopefully he will struggle to form a government. Even if he does somehow manage to find enough other parties to work with him some if his policies will never be imposed.
Why do you hope that?
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White Goodman wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:30 am Why do you hope that?
Is that not obvious to most sane people?
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Essexmaniac wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:31 am Is that not obvious to most sane people?
Not really no. Please explain your comment for me (the insane apparently) with examples.
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Great result for the Dutch. Good to see people are starting to reject these climate and immigration policies that we never asked for!
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Putin must be rubbing his hands. Another supporter of his gets elected and wants to withdraw all support from Ukraine
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The problem is the mainstream parties aren't appealing to the public. In fact they're doing the complete opposite.

I'm pretty sure if you asked the public they'd say they'd want to defeat Putin but also have controlled immigration, their national identity preserved, safer streets and less forced ideologies in society.

No one is offering all of those things.
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Prob wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 11:22 am Putin must be rubbing his hands. Another supporter of his gets elected and wants to withdraw all support from Ukraine
Putin rubs his hands every time there's an inflow of migrants to some part of the west. He is among those actively facilitating it and pushing it in an attempt to provoke social friction and discord.
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Prob wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 11:22 am Putin must be rubbing his hands. Another supporter of his gets elected and wants to withdraw all support from Ukraine
Yet they still voted for him.

I might be wrong but maybe that's what some of the people want to happen?

Maybe people there (and lots of other places in Europe) are simply tired of being the financial backstop for other countries' problems . I think the populist parties gaining ground (even in Sweden of all places) is pretty damning proof.

It will happen here too. Probably slower as our country is more complex, from a social standpoint anyway and we are an apathetic bunch really. It's why people have come and taken the piss so much
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