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Love how half the rightists in this country who salivate over the prospect of Merkel being beaten at the next election don't realise her only challenger is Germany's centre-left party. Scenes if she loses and the new Chancellor takes a harder line on Brexit.

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24 minutes ago, eez-eh said:

Still quite scary that over a third of one of Europe's biggest countries is willing to vote for a fascist nutjob.

Even more strange that (unlike here) the support for the far right candidate came from younger people. The elderly overwhelmingly voted for Macron according to the exit polls.

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23 minutes ago, Carl Cort's Hamstring said:

Even more strange that (unlike here) the support for the far right candidate came from younger people. The elderly overwhelmingly voted for Macron according to the exit polls.

France's youth unemployment is a lot higher than the UK's, which probably explains at least part of it. Not that Le Pen is likely to be the saviour, right enough, but if people are unhappy they're going to lash out at the ballot box. 

I suspect Melenchon would've appealed strongly to the young vote as well, which probably harmed Le Pen. Think about half his voters held their nose and voted for Macron whilst a significant part didn't bother at all. Thankfully their indifference didn't prove decisive. 

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1 hour ago, eez-eh said:

Still quite scary that over a third of one of Europe's biggest countries is willing to vote for a fascist nutjob.

At least in frances case, their centre right politicians haven't adopted the FN's manifesto in order to get elected, as the Tories are about to do with UKIP.

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Here was me thinking that the "populist right" were going to bring down Europe from within this year. Austria: failed. Netherlands: failed and humiliated. France: failed and drubbed. AfD struggling to even make it to the German elections without completely imploding.

That's a terrible, wee shame for them.

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33 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

A neoliberal centrist who likes banging MILFs?

I'm moving to France lads.

:thumsup2

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