The CDU trails the AfD by seven percentage points in polls in Germany. Nevertheless, the Union parties remain convinced of their own invincibility. But all of Europe is marked by a shift to the right.

More and more Europeans are beginning to tire of the consequences of EU-directed policies. They are experiencing higher costs and less security because of climate hysteria, mass immigration and a bureaucracy that costs enormous sums and only harms the countries that have submitted themselves to the mafia rule in Brussels.

Max Mannhart uses the British situation as an example in a commentary in the conservative German online magazine Apollo News.

The origin of the word Tory is unclear; one possible explanation is the Irish “Tar a rí” (Come, O king) – a battle cry of the royalists during the English Civil War. This was in the first half of the seventeenth century, when the Thirty Years’ War was raging in Germany. For an astonishing 350 years, the Conservatives dominated British politics as a conservative and royalist party.

The Conservatives survived the Industrial Revolution, the fall of the British Empire and two world wars.

Mannhart was one of the founders of what began as a blog in 2018. At the time he was only 16 years old; this year he turns 24.

He points to the local elections in England, Wales and Scotland on 7 May, where both the Tory Party and Labour were thoroughly slaughtered by voters dissatisfied with how the country has been governed over the past 15 years.

Reform UK, by contrast, achieved a landslide success. Mannhart regards Keir Starmer as politically finished after only a year and a half in Downing Street.

Large parts of Europe are experiencing a conservative wave. People are tired of the established parties that have failed for so many years.

The collapse of established party systems is now less the exception in Europe than the rule – in Italy and France it is complete; everywhere the major parties have lost their support. The CDU is the last major party in one of the major European industrialised nations that has a head of government who somehow still clings to power.

But the elite in Berlin still displays a strange calm, perhaps because the AfD is boycotted and excluded by all the other parties, which regard the desire to preserve the indigenous German population as something fascistic, while preserving Muslim terrorists and rapists living on welfare transfers is considered morally elevated.

The same is happening to the party Rassemblement National in France. Party leader Marine Le Pen is not permitted to stand as party leader, the French judiciary has decided. But she has a good replacement in Jordan Bardella.

It is those who work and pay taxes who receive the bill. The elite believes that the people ought preferably to kneel in the direction of Berlin and thank the authorities for being given the opportunity to support the “vulnerable”, who have just brutally beaten and robbed their sons. This recalls Goebbels, who demanded that the Germans prepare themselves for a “total war” before a cheering crowd in the Sportpalast.

The enemies were the Bolsheviks and, naturally, the Jews, which Goebbels stated clearly and explicitly in his speech.

The aim of Bolshevism is a Jewish world revolution. They seek to create chaos in the German Reich and Europe, in order then to exploit the hopelessness and desperation that arise to establish their international capitalist tyranny, concealed behind a Bolshevist façade.

At the recent Catholic congress, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said:

“We live off our members; if no one shows up any longer, democracy is finished.”

Merz is in practice calling for general voluntarism from people who have never voted for mass immigration and climate hysteria that are leading to an economic crisis. And democracy exists only if voters cast their ballots in accordance with the wishes of the power apparatus.

The most anti-democratic voices accuse their opponents of being anti-democrats because they do not wish to continue policies that for decades have been a total failure for the original inhabitants of Europe.

Merz extrapolates from his own life to the reality of this country – just like other European politicians, such as Starmer, Macron and our own heroes: Jonas Gahr Støre, Jens Stoltenberg and Espen Barth Eide.

These people have no idea how the despicable ordinary people experience the situation, since they have spent their lives between campaign booths and party congress halls and believe that this is the centre of the world.

In the United Kingdom, the power of these large, bureaucratised membership parties was first weakened. Now they are on their way to being swept away.

Other countries in Europe are following the trend, and this gives even those of us who are pessimistically inclined a scent of hope for a change in European politics. And that truly smells good.