The process by which Ciudadanos is cannibalising moderate elements in the PP and PSOE, while Podemos gobbles up the PSOE left and washes it down with IU’s alphabet soup, is however infinitely preferable to Britain, stuck with the monstrously decadent Labour and Conservative parties because of first-past-the-post. The Greens are an imaginative and interesting variant of the former, and Ukip are the natural successors of the latter, but the electoral system means there will be no democratic regeneration.
I hope to see a former commenter here in C’s’s lists for 24M, but I suspect that that’s not his game – and he probably hasn’t got time.
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Still, it’s good to see that the Nazis like him. They know what they’re dealing with.
I hope this doesn’t result in a law being passed prohibiting access to this blog from the Kingdom of Spain.
Mr Hannan agrees with me about something: http://www.hannan.co.uk/why-proportional-representation-is-now-right-for-the-commons/