German politicians targeted in mass data attack

Re:German politicians targeted in mass data attack by rndgermandude on Friday January 04, 2019 @08:39AM (#18823899)

AfD got 12.6% of the votes in the last federal election, with a turn out of 76.2%, which translates to 9.6% or less than 1/10th of the German electorate voting for them.

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Re:German politicians targeted in mass data attack by ben_w on Friday January 04, 2019 @08:45AM (#18823953)

By curious conincidence, UKIP also got 12.6% of the UK vote in 2015, so the point still stands.

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Re:German politicians targeted in mass data attack by rndgermandude on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:21AM (#18824190)

I wasn't commenting on "the point", just wanted to correct the guess/misremembered information that they got 1/5th of the votes.

AfD actually did influence German politics and policy making a lot, and public debate even more so, in my humble opinion.

From what I have seen, AfD is also a lot more "broadly extremist" than UKIP, but I am very probably pretty biased, being from Germany and having consumed far more German news than British.

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Re:German politicians targeted in mass data attack by lionradio on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:27AM (#18825196)

Is the UKIP still a relevant party in any way?

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Re:German politicians targeted in mass data attack by ben_w on Friday January 04, 2019 @01:30PM (#18826419)

I’m not sure. While I broadly agree with what SuddsMcDuff wrote, I literally can’t tell any more.

Trouble is, the UK political scene is currently entirely populated by people who lack the competence to realise there is anything wrong with their own strategies. (All of them, including the groups I used to consider ‘my side’).

So, they might be relevant by default.

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Re:German politicians targeted in mass data attack by SuddsMcDuff on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:54PM (#18826061)

Not really. They were seen as a single-issue party and as soon as the Brexit referendum happened their raison d'être disintegrated.

They are still going under different leadership, focusing on other typical right-wing issues. Depending on how things go with Brexit they might well come back into the limelight this year.

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Re:German politicians targeted in mass data attack by ed_balls on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:46AM (#18824336)

I must have confused it with the local elections result or a poll.

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