Quote: (09-27-2017 12:34 PM)mensch Wrote:
That's what I mean by a better strategy: if you put the conservatives of the AfD into the CDU you strengthen the movement by allying with other conservatives and pushing internally for better immigration policy. This gives the anti-immigration movement the clout it needs.
"Pushing internally for better immigration policy" is pointless if the existing policy is the hill that the leader has chosen to die on.
The migrant situation is the rock that Angela Merkel has built her legacy on, because without it, she'd be an older, uglier version of Theresa May. She will
never change it (and she's said as much, multiple times), and the CDU/CSU shows no sign of getting rid of her, meaning either they agree with her policies or they're too cowardly to challenge her on them. In other words, they're useless and AfD's people would have zero hope of changing their minds because they'd be massively outnumbered.
You sound like the cuckservatives in the U.S. last year who were going, "Trump's gonna lose, we better do a deal with Hillary now so we don't get our shit ruined when she wins." Complete loser mentality.
Quote: (09-27-2017 12:34 PM)mensch Wrote:
I take my example from Britain, where UKIP and Nigel fucking Farage were drinking their pints and being good chaps, flying the flag of the British clown high and proud. In the meanwhile the Eurosceptics within the Conservative Party were the ones that actually pushed Dave for the referendum.
You can't be serious. The only reason Cameron agreed to the E.U. referendum was because he was terrified of losing votes to UKIP (which the Conservatives did, in 2014 and 2015). The only reason May has become a firm Brexiteer is because she knows that if she betrayed the referendum results, she'd be looking at Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn or Prime Minister Nigel Farage come the next election.
On the night Brexit won, Boris Johnson, the leader of the pro-Leave campaign in the Conservative Party and one of the "Euroskeptics" you think so highly of, was recorded on camera saying, "Oh, fuck! What do we do now?" Johnson and the pro-Leave Tories were legitimately shocked by the Leave side winning because
they had no intention of winning. They expected the Remain side would win and only pretended to support Leave so they could use the publicity to make names for themselves and take over the party. When Leave won, Johnson et al. were caught with their pants down, which is why none of them were able to mount a successful challenge to Theresa May for the prime ministership.
Face it: without Nigel Farage and UKIP, Brexit would not have happened. He's the only voice worth a damn who's been consistently fighting the E.U. since the nineties, when the Tories were spinning their wheels against Tony Blair and the BNP was imploding in mutual recriminations.