The Green Party

[JBR]

All three of our councillors are Greens. They organise litter picks, and support the local foodbank. More visible than their predecessors.  I wonder what they make of Pulanski and his deputy.

I don't think local government is always an indicator of GE voting.  I think our incumbent Labour MP will retain her seat. Our constituency is split into two distinct halves, where I live must be about 95% white, it's a popular area, lots of young professionals buying here. The other half is one of the most deprived, multi ethnic areas in the city.

I believe you're right.  
Our area flips and flops between Tory and Limp Dem (the latter in power presently).  I'm quite happy because the area is reasonably well run (apart from a road recovering at the bottom of our road which was in perfect condition beforehand - an excuse to spend money, I assume, though the rush hour traffic didn't like it!).

A general election is much more important and I hope to see a good, responsible government elected.

[Michael Rolls]

The green flyer gleefully claims -it's time to tax the rich' wit h a picture of two smirking MPs. How bloody hypocritical! On 91k, just awarded themselves a five percent raise, with numerous expenses fiddles available, I'm willing to bet that on an income well below half of theirs, I pay more tax, as a proportion of income than they do.

[ansu]

" Is the German Green Party supported by the muslim population" - no they aren't. The next prime minister of our region will be the son of a Turkish guest worker, but he is more Swabian (German) than we and in our papers I read that the Turkish and Muslim population in our region aren't very happy that he won the last election. What's funny in Germany is that migrants often elect the AFD (right wing extremists). 
In our region the Green Party is very popular in towns with universities and what's surprising is that the next mayor of Munich will also belong to the Green Party. 

[JBR]

" Is the German Green Party supported by the muslim population" - no they aren't. The next prime minister of our region will be the son of a Turkish guest worker, but he is more Swabian (German) than we and in our papers I read that the Turkish and Muslim population in our region aren't very happy that he won the last election. What's funny in Germany is that migrants often elect the AFD (right wing extremists).
In our region the Green Party is very popular in towns with universities and what's surprising is that the next mayor of Munich will also belong to the Green Party.

It is interesting how different things are in Germany compared to the UK at present.  I assume that the German governments treat everyone equally, everyone who lives there legally anyway.  I'm sure that you will have many muslims in Germany.  Do they attempt to integrate or, like here, live in specific areas of majority muslim occupants.  That is one aspect of life here in Britain especially in some cities, Birmingham, parts of London, Bradford, etc.  The other problem is that they certainly have more children than most white British people who now seem not to procreate as much as we used to.  I think that the future is looking quite clear!

[ansu]

You are right, we have lots of muslims in Germany, above all since 2015. Formerly it were Turkish guest workers. 
In big cities they live in special districts - like Kreuzberg in Berlin. 
In our town they live mainly in the town centre where apartments are cheap, but as far as I can judge they slowly move in apartments everywhere in our town. In the street where I live there only lived Germans - above all seniors - now the residents are multicultural.
In the flats of my mother there live a family from the Kosovo, a Turkish family, 2 families from Lithuania and 2 young men from Ukrainia - up to now no problems arised - neither with regard to their religion nor their nationality. 
Integration is a bit a problem as German is a difficult language and many wives of muslim families don't speak or attend German lessons. Their role is to care for the family - as in Great Britain they often have lots of children. However, there's a change visible at the so-called "second generation". 
Some years ago I was invited to a Turkish wedding and I had the impression that such events are also so-called marriage markets - but I am not sure. 

[JBR]

You are right, we have lots of muslims in Germany, above all since 2015. Formerly it were Turkish guest workers.
In big cities they live in special districts - like Kreuzberg in Berlin.
In our town they live mainly in the town centre where apartments are cheap, but as far as I can judge they slowly move in apartments everywhere in our town. In the street where I live there only lived Germans - above all seniors - now the residents are multicultural.
In the flats of my mother there live a family from the Kosovo, a Turkish family, 2 families from Lithuania and 2 young men from Ukrainia - up to now no problems arised - neither with regard to their religion nor their nationality.
Integration is a bit a problem as German is a difficult language and many wives of muslim families don't speak or attend German lessons. Their role is to care for the family - as in Great Britain they often have lots of children. However, there's a change visible at the so-called "second generation".
Some years ago I was invited to a Turkish wedding and I had the impression that such events are also so-called marriage markets - but I am not sure.

That is interesting.  From what you say, your immigrants are largely from Turkey or East Europe, whereas ours seem to be largely from Pakistan and possibly other middle-east countries.
As here, yours seem to live together in specific areas and, certainly here in the UK, such areas have become majority non-British areas.
I don't know the details in Germany, but I suspect that here in the UK we provide more for our illegal immigrants than any other country in Europe.  Many arrive here illegally and are promptly housed in hotels, given food, free healthcare, free advice and legal services, etc., etc.  Little wonder why so many want to move from Europe to the UK!  Entirely our own fault, of course or, more correctly, our government's!

[klondike]

Germany has had them a lot longer then we have. I had work trips to the Ford plants in Cologne area in the 70s and there were many working in them there then. Ansu's use of guest workers is a direct translation of the German word Gastarbeiter.

[Alex]

In the 70s these 'Gastarbeiter' used to hang about on street corners, smoking their smelly fags and eyeing up the many local blonde women.  I was one of those blonde women !     

[klondike]

Most German cigarettes were pretty foul. I used to resort to Camels if the duty free ran out. My wife hated the smell of those.

[JBR]

I know that Germany, along with other European countries, has immigrants from the east, but I'm not sure how well they are accepted in those countries.
I know that here in the UK most people are not happy with the mass illegal immigration, especially when we hear of some of the evil things some of them do, such as raping young white girls.  It is even more annoying when it seems that nothing appears to be being done about this sort of thing.

I wonder whether we seem just to have accumulated the worst, and that other European countries don't seem to suffer from the same things.
Of course, we (or our glorious leaders) bring that on ourselves and have no-one else to blame.