Huge wins for the right wing in EU

[westwall]

Does this presage a similar wave of anti immigration and anti globalist voting in our upcoming elections? It is an enormous shift in Europe....




Big wins for French far right, Britain's UKIP rock EU elections


(Reuters) - Eurosceptic nationalists scored stunning victories in European Parliament elections in France and Britain on Sunday as critics of the European Union more than doubled their seats in a continent-wide protest vote against austerity and unemployment.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the breakthrough by Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration, anti-euro National Front in one of the EU's founding nations a political "earthquake".



Big wins for French far right, Britain's UKIP rock EU elections | Reuters

 

[ScienceRocks]

Will this have the effect of killing off renewables? Maybe a movement towards building more coal???

 

[Truthseeker420]

Clinton would be far right in Europe. They have real socialists over there.

 

[bripat9643]

Clinton would be far right in Europe. They have real socialists over there.

We also have real socialists. We call them "Democrats."

 

[ScienceRocks]

I want to see 500ppm before 2050!!!!

I'll be 64

So go righties go!

That's 100ppm/36 years = 2.77ppm per year. I believe it maybe doable?

 

[Disir]

There was a low voter turnout.

Austerity measures.

I think Golden Dawn is one of the most vile groups but, Greece will never allow itself to be under control of Germany ever again. They should have seen that one coming in 2012.

 

[ScienceRocks]

There was a low voter turnout.

Austerity measures.

I think Golden Dawn is one of the most vile groups but, Greece will never allow itself to be under control of Germany ever again. They should have seen that one coming in 2012.

If it stops Greece from being taken over by Africans. Well, it is well worth it; no matter how vile.

 

[Disir]

There was a low voter turnout.

Austerity measures.

I think Golden Dawn is one of the most vile groups but, Greece will never allow itself to be under control of Germany ever again. They should have seen that one coming in 2012.

If it stops Greece from being taken over by Africans. Well, it is well worth it; no matter how vile.

No. That's called scapegoating.

 

[konradv]

Hmmm..., so the right is applauding the neo-nazis now. Can't say it wasn't always just below the surface. For all their talk of freedom, the right really likes to tell people what they're allowed to do.

 

[ScienceRocks]

It's about preserving culture. Asshole.

It isn't like you aren't a red that would suck castro's dick!

 

[Disir]

It's the economy. We have seen this before. History is repeating itself.

 

[georgephillip]

" Stunning victories in European Parliament elections by nationalist, Eurosceptic parties from France and Britain left the European Union licking its wounds on Monday and facing a giant policy dilemma.

"Across the continent, anti-establishment parties of the far right and hard left more than doubled their representation amid voter apathy, harnessing a mood of anger with Brussels over austerity, mass unemployment and immigration.

"While the center-right and center-left will continue to control more than half of the 751 seats in the EU legislature, they will face an unprecedented challenge from noisy insurgents determined to stop business as usual in the 28-nation bloc."

Eurosceptic election surge gives EU a headache | Reuters

It could happen here starting next November if enough US voters stop "choosing" between Democrat OR Republican when selecting their House and Senate representatives.

FLUSH the DC Toilet in 2014

 

[1776]

When white Europeans pay out the nose for socialist welfare programs and see an invasion of people from Africa and the middle east.....they eventually wake up and vote out the socialist scum.

 

[Disir]

There was a low voter turnout.

Austerity measures.

I think Golden Dawn is one of the most vile groups but, Greece will never allow itself to be under control of Germany ever again. They should have seen that one coming in 2012.

The people have spoken and 43% turnout across the entire EU is not low..its actually up since 2009. Try and figure out Europeans are tired of being ruled by non Europeans...they want their countries back,they are tired of being overrun by illegals from Africa and Middle East. Get used to it.

The mindless austerity imposed on Greece by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - the so-called "troika" - as part of the bailout agreements has had a catastrophic effect on Greek economy and society while the policies of privatization and structural reforms including radical labor market restructuring have set the stage for the emergence of a type of economy in which economic inefficiency, brutal economic exploitation, severe inequality, foreign dependence and environmental degradation will be the primary characteristics. The claim made here is that the wild neoliberal experiment under way in Greece will produce an economy that will resemble features not of the Celtic Tiger of the mid-1990s to early 2000s - as the current government envisions - but that of an underdeveloped Latin American country of the 1960s.

Whether the conversion of Greece from a fairly developed economy into a colonial periphery is by design or not on the part of the nation's international creditors is of secondary importance: This is the price Greece is paying for being a bankrupt nation as a member state of a currency union that has a deeply flawed institutional architecture and is being led by a hegemon that practices an extreme type of economic nationalism and "beggar thy neighbor" policies.

...Austerity was crushing the Greek economy and causing a slowdown in every peripheral euro zone economy that was implementing deep austerity measures in the midst of a major recession. But dogma is dogma and, as such, it has to be reinforced regardless of any empirical reality. Thus, the second bailout package included even more budget cuts across the board, the reduction of public employment by 150,000 by the end of 2015, and a massive privatization project - essentially an all-out neoliberal attack on public goods and all publicly owned enterprises in Greece. "A Nation for Sale" is how many Greek citizens have come to regard the terms and conditions included in the second bailout agreement. On sale, among other highly valuable state assets, are the ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki; the Greek telecom OTE; the national lottery; prime real estate; and the postal bank. All at fire sale prices. [5]

Greece's financial backers expected the privatization projects to raise 50 billion euros by 2015, revealing how wildly out of touch they were with Greek economic reality - although a more likely scenario is that the urgent push for privatization was simply a Machiavellian plan to transfer public wealth into private hands. After all, it is beyond contention that the Greek debt crisis has been utilized as an opportunity to dismantle the social state, to sell off profitable public enterprises and state assets at bargain prices, to deprive labor of its most basic rights, and to substantially reduce wages and pensions - all with the support of a significant segment of the Greek industrial/financial class and with the assistance of the domestic political elite, which, since the onset of the crisis, has relied heavily on dictatorial action to meet the demands of the country's foreign creditors and to institutionalize a much-sought-after neoliberal economic order.

The Greek "Success Story" of a Crushing Economy and a Failed State

It's the economy.

 

[tinydancer]

This was a given. The EU is a massive liberal failure.

 

[tinydancer]

Over and over and over I have told you about them.

 

[tinydancer]

This was a given. The EU is a massive liberal failure.

What a drama queen you are.

Get back to me when you can explain the massive voter losses with Messina and Axelrod running the game in Britain. They lost big time didn't they now?

 

[Disir]

The people have spoken and 43% turnout across the entire EU is not low..its actually up since 2009. Try and figure out Europeans are tired of being ruled by non Europeans...they want their countries back,they are tired of being overrun by illegals from Africa and Middle East. Get used to it.

The mindless austerity imposed on Greece by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - the so-called "troika" - as part of the bailout agreements has had a catastrophic effect on Greek economy and society while the policies of privatization and structural reforms including radical labor market restructuring have set the stage for the emergence of a type of economy in which economic inefficiency, brutal economic exploitation, severe inequality, foreign dependence and environmental degradation will be the primary characteristics. The claim made here is that the wild neoliberal experiment under way in Greece will produce an economy that will resemble features not of the Celtic Tiger of the mid-1990s to early 2000s - as the current government envisions - but that of an underdeveloped Latin American country of the 1960s.

Whether the conversion of Greece from a fairly developed economy into a colonial periphery is by design or not on the part of the nation's international creditors is of secondary importance: This is the price Greece is paying for being a bankrupt nation as a member state of a currency union that has a deeply flawed institutional architecture and is being led by a hegemon that practices an extreme type of economic nationalism and "beggar thy neighbor" policies.

...Austerity was crushing the Greek economy and causing a slowdown in every peripheral euro zone economy that was implementing deep austerity measures in the midst of a major recession. But dogma is dogma and, as such, it has to be reinforced regardless of any empirical reality. Thus, the second bailout package included even more budget cuts across the board, the reduction of public employment by 150,000 by the end of 2015, and a massive privatization project - essentially an all-out neoliberal attack on public goods and all publicly owned enterprises in Greece. "A Nation for Sale" is how many Greek citizens have come to regard the terms and conditions included in the second bailout agreement. On sale, among other highly valuable state assets, are the ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki; the Greek telecom OTE; the national lottery; prime real estate; and the postal bank. All at fire sale prices. [5]

Greece's financial backers expected the privatization projects to raise 50 billion euros by 2015, revealing how wildly out of touch they were with Greek economic reality - although a more likely scenario is that the urgent push for privatization was simply a Machiavellian plan to transfer public wealth into private hands. After all, it is beyond contention that the Greek debt crisis has been utilized as an opportunity to dismantle the social state, to sell off profitable public enterprises and state assets at bargain prices, to deprive labor of its most basic rights, and to substantially reduce wages and pensions - all with the support of a significant segment of the Greek industrial/financial class and with the assistance of the domestic political elite, which, since the onset of the crisis, has relied heavily on dictatorial action to meet the demands of the country's foreign creditors and to institutionalize a much-sought-after neoliberal economic order.

The Greek "Success Story" of a Crushing Economy and a Failed State

It's the economy.

Large part of it yes. There are other parties that say the economy is bad as well but GD takes care of its people the Greek people not illegal foreigners who don't belong there. There is more than just 1 reason the people are voting for GD. They want to return pride to Greece...

via murder and extortion. How many of the GD members are now in prison or awaiting trial?

 

[tinydancer]

Over and over and over I have told you about them.

Some lies don't work even if you keep repeating them, as you do,

Svoboda is a reality. They are not a lie. Just like Golden Dawn is not a lie. I never lie. I don't have to.

Truth is my howitzer.

 

[ron4342]

Clinton would be far right in Europe. They have real socialists over there.

We also have real socialists. We call them "Democrats."

And we have a lot of total idiots over here, except we call them republicans.