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| Angela Merkel, Empress of Europe |
BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson's piece on the plight of Mrs Merkel on this morning's Today sounded a wistful and admiring note. It ended:
It feels like the last chapter of an important, possibly an irreplaceable, European legend.
It was The European Legend's decision to open doors of Germany (during what the BBC man called "the refugee crisis", though others - more accurately - call it "the migrant crisis") that's cost her dear, he said, as the last election showed:
Angela Merkel went, Theresa-May-like, into an election in September and got a real pasting. Her Conservative group scored worse than at any time since the West German state was founded. The Socialists did quite badly too, but the right-wing - too far right-wing - Alternative für Deutschland won its first seats in the Bundestag.
You'll note the opinion hiding in full view there: the too far right-wing AfD.
Update: Please see Ozfan's comment below. JS was talking BS.
Update: Please see Ozfan's comment below. JS was talking BS.
