There's something that's worth noting, which is that far-right wing parties in Europe frequently have a tinge of economic liberalism to them. As stated above, Wilders' party [in the Netherlands] opposed cuts due to the impact on the elderly. Le Pen's solution would be for France to abandon the Euro (eventually) and monetize its debt through its own currency.
Core Europe has been worried for some time that an election in a peripheral country would produce a result that was anti-Euro. However the latest developments show strength for anti-Euro candidates in core countries.Read it at Business Insider
Right Wingers In Europe Just Fired Off Two Huge Torpedoes
by Joe Weisenthal
(h/t Kevin Fathi via email)
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“far-right parties in Europe frequently have a tinge of economic liberalism to them”. Quite right. I’m actually a member of a supposedly “far right” party: the British National Party. The latter actually espouses a number of relatively left wing polices.
But that’s too complicated for most people: most people like everything served up to them in easily digestible chunks: like “right” and “left”. But that’s understandable: when you have a job to get to by 8am, kids to get to school, etc etc, you just don’t have time for complexity.
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