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I know a fair number of Germans who feel similar about the SPD, despite it otherwise being perhaps their natural party. The legacy of the Hartz IV ‘reforms’, and similar have really harmed the SPD, just as (I’d argue) the welfare cuts and payroll tax changes during Gordon Brown’s premiership...

So, you don’t want to get vaccinated because the vaccine doesn’t provide 100% protection against Covid, yet are happy enough to wear a mask and carry out regular hand hygiene… Neither of which provides 100% protection against Covid.

Also, the obligatory “the EU is imminently about to collapse” take, which we’ve had daily in the British media for the last five and a half years. Edit: plus if you only ever read and watched the British media, you’d think that Merkel and the CDU are centre-left social liberals, AfD was a...

Upload Beast Wars next, Hasbro, you cowards.

The UK and American media are just as bad at reporting on German elections, I see…

Bought Kingdom Galvatron, because I found a non-misassembled one. Probably should’ve held on for the Marvel comics-accurate one, having grown up reading Marvel UK, but, eh. My girlfriend’s described Galvatron’s cannon-equipped arm as his “pasta arm”, as the cannon barrel looks like a piece of...

Demote it to a territory?

Incidentally, I had a look into when a Green Party first entered government in Europe – assumed it was Finland in 1995, but it was actually Italy in 1993, although that only lasted a few days, because Italian politics is weird.

Funnily enough, Tory derives from an Irish word tóraidhe meaning robber/bandit.

I bought Kingdom Scorponok and Rhinox…* But haven’t even opened them yet. Scorp looks pretty interesting; Rhinox feels a bit redundant seeing as I own the 2013 figure and it’s undamaged by time. Oh well. (* I stopped buying the new figures of G1 characters in Kingdom, FWIW. Plus the Fossilisers...

If you’re asking who I’d vote for if I was German… SPD, as I’m your generic centre-left voter. Second choice Grünen, depending on where I hypothetically lived in Germany. If you’re asking who I think will win… I think SPD will narrowly win and there will be a SPD-lead government, most likely...

The federal Liberals remind me too much of the US Democrats – yes, historically they introduced many social reforms and the welfare state, but they’re still mostly “centre-left during elections, centre-right while in power”. That and they’re never going to properly take on wealthy vested...

So, later this month there’s a federal election in Germany, alongside simultaneous state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. So, who are the contenders? (Remember that German governments are multi-party coalitions, with rare exceptions.) CDU/CSU – the dominant centre-right bloc...

I’d be leaning NDP too, were I Canadian… Can’t believe Trudeau called a snap election during a pandemic. Early unscheduled elections over the last eighteen months haven’t gone well for incumbents in any country.