EU will lose due to their own lenient migration laws just like the UK

No this is not parody from Starmer. He really thought he cooked with this tweet. UK is becoming an absolute meme.




https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1905238067843150186?s=46

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Mar 27 2025 03:55pm

France has banned the top opposition candidate from running in the next presidential election in another rousing successful for western liberal democracy
Didn't quite manage to ban Trump from running in the US, but they've barred Le Pen in France and Georgescu in Romania even though he already won the election multiple times in a row, and all the meanwhile Germany is attempting to ban the AfD entirely

I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy was a blip in european history, not the natural order of the continent. Monarchs and autocracies and plutocracies have reigned for millenia and there's no reason to expect democracy to stick around long term

Ah yes, shame on europe for upholding their laws against corrupt politicians instead of faltering like the little babys the US americans apparently are. I have said it before and will say it again, we saw two times in a span of one generation what far right nationalism leads to, that's why we hate it.

Also lol @ the "blip in european history" part, democracy is a concept from ancient greece, that's around 2000 years before america was "discovered"

This post was edited by SkySwallower on Mar 31 2025 02:15pm

He won the first leg of the presidential election, he didn't win anything "multiple times in a row". If only he didn't break campaign finance laws and wasn't a nutjob the guy legit could have ended up as president. Oh well.

What was the corruption?
Accepting public funding, that all politicians over a certain threshold get?



He won the first election, then when it was apparent he would win the runoff, the regime in Romania annulled the first election that the Supreme Court already ruled valid when previously challenged on the same grounds, and canceled the second one.

This post was edited by PapaPsych on Mar 31 2025 02:30pm

The punishment is disproportional to the severity of the crime in this case. Le Pen was accused of having misappropriated EU funding. Specifically, that the personnel she had hired using funding for parliamentary assistants in the EU parliament was used for other purposes, like working as her personal assistants or even her security guards. So she used funds which were intended to hire people who work for her to... hire people who work for, but in unintended roles. Meh. That's just about the most benign and irrelevant form of political corruption you can imagine. Barring the leading candidate of the opposition from running in the presidential election over such a nothingburger is egregious.



Also, this will in hindsight turn out to be a pyrrhic victory for the EUrocrats and establishment forces in France. Marine Le Pen is a spent force, politically speaking. She has already run 3 times and has a low ceiling as a candidate. Her only chance of actually getting over the hump in 2027 would have been complete disarray and incompetence on the side of her opponents. She will now of course appeal this sentence, but if it stands, the heir apparent will be National Rally president Jordan Bardella, a young, telegenic, articulate guy who would make for a much fresher candidate with far less baggage and baked-in negative opinions.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 31 2025 03:56pm

It's only in Europe- and EU-adjacent Turkey, but don't forget that Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul who is generally considered the strongest possible challenger to president Erdogan, was imprisoned and barred from running on flimsy corruption charges just a week ago. Turkey has been roiled by been massive, daily demonstrations ever since.

The nut job was banned because he won the first leg and was poised to win the second, i.e. a majority of Romanian voters preferred the nut job in power. When Romanians cannot choose their own president the logical conclusion is that Romania is not a democracy.