„Nun plaudern wir”, sprach die AFD, und schaute sich freundlich um, „Von Schuhen — Schiffen — Siegellack — von Kraut und Königtum, und ob ein DEXIT möglich ist, und wenn ja, was dann nun?”
[Ed: you will find the translation here, up to the DEXIT point: ‘if a Dexit is possible and if so – now what?’]
Good old Alice… although I’m not sure even the ability to believe “six impossible things before breakfast”, even in German, would help prepare us for the latest EU developments!
This article is about my candidate for word of the year: “DEXIT”. Some of you may be wondering why I’m so enthused by the Department for Exiting the EU, but that’s DXEU. Nor am I talking about the drug, or the Canadian smart key fob manufacturer, or Denmark leaving the EU – this is something different and bigger: AFD’s term for Germany (Deutschland) leaving the EU. They’re threatening that if the issue of Islamic immigration hasn’t been sorted by the end of the next EU parliament, i.e. mid 2023, along with the restoration of national sovereignty, then they will change their policy to be pro-DEXIT.
(German) DEXIT is a very big deal. Whilst historically staunchly anti-Euro, the Alternative Für Deutschland (AFD) has always insisted that Germany should remain in the EU. Just by suggesting their policy could change opens a huge can of worms, or as they say “in ein Wespennest stechen” – which sounds pretty painful! Of course, the idea itself is nothing new, but prior to this week, it was usually raised from outside German politics, mainstream or otherwise.
Traditionally, how you view Germany’s attitude to the EU depends on whether your outlook is hawkish: “They started it: they invaded Poland!” or dove-like: “No, Minister: the Germans went in to cleanse themselves of genocide and apply for re-admission to the human race…” . Either way, it was always seen as a rock-solid poster-boy for remainers everywhere. Not anymore. Now the AFD have defined a new Rubicon, and set a deadline for swimming it.
Those states, which were deemed most likely to break away, were the Mediterranean PIIGS – Portugal, Ireland, Italy Greece and Spain, famous for their “black book” economies. Following last year’s admission from President Macron that FREXIT was a risk if he was stupid enough to grant a referendum on the issue, the acronym might have been amended to PFIIGS – and may yet be – but they all pale into significance now that the certainty of Germany’s role as cash-cow is being seriously questioned.
And it’s not a problem that only has to be worried about 5 years hence, when Mutti, May, Macron (all the M’s!) are gone, and Krampus (Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer) is ruling the roost in Berlin. There are MEP elections coming up this May, and this will certainly help enliven them – not that they were going to be especially quiet anyway, but this will certainly help fan flames of protest: the AFD currently have seven MEPs based on over 2 million votes in 2014, having come 5th from nowhere, and it’s not hard to imagine that following “Mutti” Merkel’s immigration fiasco, they could do a lot better this time round.
Assuming we haven’t left – perfectly possible – and with Gerard’s strong stance on Islam, it’s also not hard to envisage a UKIP/AFD based coalition, which was before seen as unthinkable (at least on their part). It’s certainly a far cry from 2014, when, according to Reuters, “it said it was neither anti-immigration nor anti-EU and had ruled out working with Geert Wilders’ Dutch Freedom party or Marine Le Pen’s French National Front.” Now that the National Front have rebranded, to National Rally, without toxic daddy, I can easily see Marine Le Pen making common cause on Islam and sovereignty with the AFD as well – assuming they’re serious in what they say, and it’s not just a stunt to garner up publicity and then be discarded after 26th May…
DEXIT should have every other state in the EU quaking – along with Britain, Germany is a net paymaster, indeed often referred to as the paymaster, and, if they leave, I can see no viable way that the whole rotten house of cards can remain standing.
Now that’s what I call a real Project Fear!
Happy Rollercoaster 2019!
I do feel confused about the concept of DEXIT.
My feelings are that the German elite have engineered much of what has happened through the EU. There is evidence that it was a Nazi brainchild. There is also evidence that a number of ex-Nazis were employed in the early days of the EU. There is evidence that Germany has benefitted a great deal by the Euro. Also that German companies have been able to dominate markets through EU administration.
It is clear that the German Chancellor was responsible almost single-handedly for the mass migration into the EU. It is also clear that the Germans have been at the forefront of all negotiations and decision making by the EU.
Given this track record where will be the justice if the German elite ‘jump ship’ leaving all the subordinated countries to pick up the pieces of a crashed EU?
I realise that will happen anyway but it would be my wish that the EU crashes with Germany in it.
My sincere apologies to the German people who have seen the evil of the EU.
We have to remember that it was the German elite who were in the restaurants and the opera houses when the Jews were queuing in the streets with Stars marked on their clothes and being beaten to the ground in public.
To relieve them of guilt in my eyes they would have to return the wealth from their coffers. They can start that with the Mediterranean countries. They also have to denounce the EU for evil Socialist Empire it is and support a process of prosecutions for all the EU bureaucrats who are suspected of corruption and embezzlement.
Yet again Germany has been at the front of disaster in Europe.
Sorry if this sounds racist but we cannot ignore what we see.
An AFD mp has just been attacked: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46792556 ?
Very interesting. I,m an AfD activist in Stuttgart (and also a Kipper), but this is news to me. In 2016 a poll commissioned by a respected German economist (Prof Sinn) showed 34% of Germans wanting a Dexit.
Anyone thinking that the Islam issue will disappear if the EU is destroyed is labouring under an illusion. It is not the EU that is at fault for mass Islamic immigration it is our political, corporate and academic establishments.
Lets be honest leaving the EU will not in anyway guarantee an end of mass immigration to Britain. Yes, it is a huge step in the right direction but Britain like all European countries have always had the powers to halt unskilled Asian and African immigration but the establishment wished to change the face of Britain and the corporations and academia who shared this view have done all they can to assisti in the Brazilianisation of Britain..
There exists an enormous powerfull lobby within these Isles to ensure mass immigration continues post-Brexit and it is this lobby that UKIP must fac head-on.
The enemy has always been within.
Even if the mass immigration were to cease the problem will not go away as they breed like the proverbial rabbits and have been allowed too much freedom to pursue their evil ways. Of course it must be stopped to limit their growth but we will only regain our country though their deportation to a country where their ways are the norm.
I’d even be in favour of providing assisted passage for them but with no option for refusal and effective border control to prevent their returning.
Bring it on! The destruction of the EU is the only way to ensure that some future government does not take us back in (assuming we ever leave…). I look forward to celebrating its demise.