Conservative tide continues to rise… except here?
Huge electoral news from Britain this weekend- their Labour Party (left-of-center) got pummeled/ bloodied/ trounced, not even able to make second place. Yikes! From the BBC:
“Gordon Brown’s Labour Party suffered its worst electoral performance for at least 40 years in the English and Welsh local elections. Labour had a net loss of 331 seats and their projected share of the vote at 24% was the lowest recorded and left them in third place.[...] The big winners are undoubtedly the Conservatives. Their share of the vote, 44%, put them 20% ahead of Labour and they gained 256 more councillors”.
So, let’s see where this brings the tally up to:
Germany- Left -> Right
France- Left -> Right
Italy- Left -> Right
U.K.- Left -> Right
(Help me out here, is there another one I’m missing?)
As Dennis Prager repeatedly points out, the world does not hate the U.S.- the Left hates the U.S.; where Leftists are in power, you get anti-American rhetoric, and our homegrown Leftists eat it up and wail about how we’ve lost the world’s admiration, how those too-cool Europeans don’t respect us anymore. Looks like the facts are telling a somewhat different story.
As for the U.S. election year outcome, who knows how that will turn out? Our own Republican Party appears to have lost all self confidence and thinks it’s only hope is to run to the left. Aren’t we supposed to be following the lead of those sophisticated Europeans?
U.S.- ? -> ?
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