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VOTERS trudged to the polls yesterday in the second general election this year to elect a new government to implement the latest three-year bankers’ bailout imposed in the summer by international creditors.
There was little enthusiasm and passion because both apparent frontrunners, the Syriza party of former prime minister Alexis Tsipras and the conservative New Democracy party led by Evangelos Meimarakis, are committed to punishing austerity.
Several smaller parties take a similar stance, believing against experience that continued EU membership will bring economic salvation.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
