• OwlPaste@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    donno about Germany, but here in UK the current government is actually putting through unexpected changes, but its probably invisible to general public. news outlets are generally pro conservatives here

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      5 days ago

      Britain has First Past The Post, a hereditary head of state who has some power (seldom used) to block legislation and no written Constitution.

      It isn’t quite the opposite of Germany but not far from it.

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      We’ll see about Germany. I think the last government tried to do stuff but one coalition “partner” cutting away at the coalition’s Achilles heel (the budget). The media reporting on Germany also seems to be quite conservative, so a bunch of the good stuff the coalition did was swept under the rug e.g for the first time in decades the German railway infrastructure didn’t get worse (it also didn’t get better, but at least it didn’t get worse).

      The graphic that OP posted has the conservatives as the second most popular party, but they were the most popular one after the last elections. It’s the same party of Merkel, the same one that was in power for 15 years and didn’t improve the country during that entire time, thus planting the seeds for the nazis.