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| Europe |
| Europe: Things Fall Apart |
| 2018-07-10 |
| h/t Instapundit [Powerline] German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hanging on by her fingernails in Germany right now, as the backlash against migrants reached a critical mass in recent weeks. The cabinet minister who confronted Merkel and forced immigration concessions, Horst Seehofer of the "conservative" CSU party based chiefly in Bavaria, has seen his own poll ratings collapse in the aftermath of the political crisis. But this is just as likely to be the result of his not having gone far enough with his attempts to get Merkel to reverse course on her disastrous immigration policy. The supposedly Trumpian "Alternative for Germany" party is now expected to rack up big gains in upcoming regional elections. Merkel’s chances for survival in office don’t look very good at the moment. Meanwhile, what is happening in Britain right now? First, over the weekend David Davis, the cabinet minister in charge of the Brexit process, resigned over his disagreements with what he thought was a too-weak Brexit plan embraced by Prime Minister Theresa May, and this morning Boris Johnson, the foreign minister, has also resigned, calling May’s Brexit plan as "polishing a turd." (I knew there was a reason I like this guy.) It appears there is a full-on cabinet crisis now under way in Britain, and May might not be long for office. Stay tuned: Merkel and May could well be turning up soon with a lot of time on their hands at Aspen Institute panels, telling us all about "what went wrong." Why do bad things happen to good people? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. __ prescient much, W.B.? |
| Posted by: Shager Sproing5526 2018-07-10 16:05 |
| #4 Future historians will draw a parallel between Justinian's exhaustion of his Eastern Roman Empire's resources trying to resurrect the old Roman Empire with America's exhaustion of its resource trying to save Western European Civ, forgetting why its forefathers left the place or were thrown out in the first place. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-10 14:28 |
| #3 I hope May returns to help raise her alligator eggs. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-07-10 09:58 |
| #2 Couldn't have happened to a nicer pair of crones. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-07-10 09:29 |
| #1 Moved to poly ticks |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-07-10 06:39 |