As promised, here’s the report from the elections to the parliaments in the German ‘Laender’ Bavaria and Hesse. There’s not been anything in the ‘world’ news’ in our fabulous MSM, but I forgive them: the war in Israel does deserve the top spot, as do the reactions of our politicians, or rather: non-reactions. However, as usual, they prefer whataboutery rather than ask relevant questions. More – briefly – on this below. Also, the vote counts were only confirmed in the early hours of this morning, so there wasn’t sufficient time to be told how to spin these results.

Firstly, the numbers. I am referring in the following to various reports in the German paper ‘Die Welt’ which is in general not tainted by the red-green ideologies. You can use your machine translator of choice to read the reports, the graphs ae self-explanatory. The reports themselves are apparently not paywalled. 

Keep in mind that the different parties all have their own colour. It’s black for the CDU and their Bavarian sister party CSU; red for the SPD, green for the Greens, yellow for the FDP (the German LibDems), blue for the AfD, storm-blue for the FW, and grey for all others which didn’t get 5% of the votes.

In Bavaria, the leader of the ‘Freie Wähler’, Hubert Aiwanger, won what they call a ‘Direktmandat’, i.e. he had sufficient votes to get a seat. directly, not over the party list. The campaign against him, kicked off by a German national paper, instigated by a retired red teacher and the Green party – I wrote about this here in an earlier column – damaged the instigators more than their target, Mr Aiwanger.

Firstly, the report with the graph of the official count for Bavaria (link, may be paywalled). For quick reference, the graph itself is here. Turn-out was 73.3%. The parties of the governing ‘Ampel’ coalition, i.e. SPD, Greens and Libs, all lost. So did, to a small amount, the CSU which nevertheless gained  37% of the votes. The FW (15.8%) are the second largest party after the CSU, the AfD is in 3rd place (14.6%). 

This means that, roughly speaking, two thirds of the voters in Bavaria have voted for conservative parties. Keep in mind that all German parties are adamant not to speak with or, God forbid, go into a coalition with the AfD which they label as akin to the Nazi Party . Clearly, German voters disagree and are no longer scared into disregarding that Party.

Note also that the Greens are still clinging to their clientele, the financially secure, urban middle classes made up of civil servants, teachers and professors as well as the chattering ’elite’ in the German MSM. These are the people who aren’t affected by green policies, making up roughly 15%  of voters. 

Next, a quick look at the result of the elections in Hesse where the opinion of the voters is even more clear-cut regarding the losses of Red-Green-Yellow. The report is here (link, probably paywalled), the graph of the official result is here. Turn-out was 66%.  Even though the German Libs managed to get over the 5% hurdle, the parties of the German coalition government, a.k.a. ‘Die Ampel’, lost hugely.

The AfD has become the 2nd largest Party in Hesse but of course, they won’t be invited to form a coalition government, for the reason I mentioned above. The ever so triumphant Greens have been relegated to fourth place in both Bavaria and Hesse.

There is another article on the Bavarian election, analysing the movement and migration of voters to and from those official parties (link, probably paywalled). The graphs are all self-explanatory and are categorised according to political party: CSU, Freie Wähler, AfD, Greens, SPD and FDP. One more graph, from a report (link, probably paywalled) on the demography of voters. The result is stunning: even amongst the younger voters the AfD is either neck-on-neck with the Greens or overtakes them. 

I hope UK pollsters and election campaign managers take note: despite the continuous labelling of voters electing parties which the German MSM are describing as ‘far right, extreme hard right and practically Nazis’, Germans in both Bavaria and Hesse see them for what they are: proper conservative parties. They’ve voted accordingly. 

Also note the turn-out of 2/3s or nearly 3/4 of voters. This puts the ‘victory’ of Labour in the Scottish by-election in perspective: a turn-out of 34% means that two thirds of the electorate went ‘NOTA’ – None of the Above. In Germany, this huge part of the electorate voted conservative … 

I’ll finish with a few points regarding the war in Israel. It is astonishing that apparently neither Mossad nor their US allies were aware of the Hamas attacks. Allegedly, warnings might not have been given because of the current turmoil about the reform of the judiciary in Israel. If so: words fail me …

Moreover, Nethanyahu has allegedly warned in June already that weapons and armaments destined for the Ukraine had turned up in Gaza. At the same time, Israel, like many other countries, had their arms twisted by the USA to send their own weapons and armaments to the Ukraine. If so: words fail me ….

And finally: I note that our state media, the BBC and the Westminster MSM, are into top whataboutery. Why it is good to print photos of Hamas men carrying white bundles allegedly the bodies of their children but it too delicate to bring photos of Israeli kids, abducted and stuffed into cages, is beyond me. It’s not as if people didn’t look at social media images, kindly provided by Hamas via TikTok!

That’s all I have for today. The events of the weekend just past show our MSM in a worse light than usual. Have a good day.