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Alternative for Germany has taken the lead in national polling as support for Chancellor Merz’s ruling coalition hits a record low
The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has overtaken Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc to become the country’s most popular party, a new survey shows.
According to the RTL/ntv ‘Trendbarometer’ poll released on Tuesday, the AfD is at a record 26%, one point ahead of the ruling coalition’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), which have fallen to 24% – their lowest level since 2021.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) is at 13%, the same as the Greens, while the Left party sits at 11%, with all other parties in single digits. A quarter of respondents said they would abstain or remain undecided – far more than in the last election.
With the coalition nearing its 100-day mark this Wednesday, approval for Merz has sunk to 29%, the lowest since his election in May, while discontent has climbed to 67%. Criticism is sharpest in eastern Germany and among AfD, Left, and Green supporters, fueling doubts about the government’s staying power.
Since taking office, Merz has adopted a hardline stance towards Russia, recently pledging an additional €5 billion ($5.6 billion) in military aid to Ukraine. Berlin is one of Kiev’s largest backers, and last month Merz declared that diplomatic options in the conflict were “exhausted,” drawing accusations from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of choosing escalation over diplomacy. The commitment of fresh funds to Kiev has sparked criticism at home, coming amid Germany’s worsening economic outlook.
The poll found 62% expect the economy to deteriorate this year – the most pessimistic reading so far – while only 14% foresee improvement. Half of the respondents trust no party to handle the country’s problems.
Founded in 2013, the AfD has steadily gained ground amid a continuing migrant crisis in Germany. It came in second in February’s federal election with 152 seats in the 630-seat Bundestag, and has since moderated its rhetoric in a bid to attract centrist voters ahead of next year’s regional polls.
WATCH PIERRE POILIEVRE TAKE THE QUESTION FROM KEEAN BEXTE (BELOW)
This week, a video of Calgary Transit went viral: hordes of commuters crammed into and around a bus in a scene of packed chaos. People spilling out of doorways, swarming the stop, the platform heaving — more like rush hour in Calcutta than anything you’d expect in Calgary.
It’s the latest proof of what Canadians already see and feel. Crime is up. Traffic is up. ER wait times are up. Rent and housing prices are in the stratosphere. And instead of acknowledging the problem, the Canadian political class, legacy media, and the immigration industrial complex have doubled down — smearing anyone who spoke up two years ago as a racist, a bigot, or a white nationalist.
This is not about skin colour. If one million unvetted Irish or French-speaking Belgians flooded our country through scam colleges, they’d need to go back too.
But that’s not who came. The federal government opened the floodgates to the developing world with zero regard for cultural fit, sustainability, or national interest — and now we’re all paying the price.
Even recent immigrants see the mess created over the last decade. In fact, polling shows non-white Canadians are more critical of mass migration than white Canadians. That alone should silence the pearl-clutchers.
Many of these “newcomers” — to use the new globalist buzzword that replaced “immigrant” after the latter became too toxic — were sold a lie. They were told Canada was a dreamland. Most are now waking up to a destroyed promise. But that won’t be enough. Because the ones who came to take advantage — the ones packed twelve to a house in Brampton — will stay. Why wouldn’t they? Even a collapsing Canada still offers ‘free’ healthcare (for now).
That needs to change.
This means mandatory language testing, with enforcement.
This means if you're not gainfully employed, you go back.
This means if you're a drag on the system, you're cut loose.
Canada is not a refugee camp. It is a nation with values, responsibilities, and a social contract — one that's being shredded by globalist ideologues and cowardly politicians too afraid to speak plain truth.
On Thursday, I personally asked Pierre Poilievre how he plans to fix it.
Poilievre’s answer hit some of the right notes: deportation for those deemed inadmissible, removal of criminals after detention, tracking down the 600 criminal fugitives the Liberals have lost, cutting international student and Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) numbers that corporations use to drive down wages, and — crucially — net negative migration “for the next several years.”
But broad strokes aren’t enough. We’ve had years of political hedging. Even now, senior Conservatives are still undermining this issue from within, calling for scrapping English language tests or hiding behind “family reunification” — buzzwords that mask the same unsustainable intake. Without clear, measurable targets and timelines for removals, border security, and intake cuts, the promises won’t outlast the next press conference.
The UK is showing us what political courage looks like. Nigel Farage spent years saying what his opponents wouldn’t — and now they’re forced to echo him. Britain’s ruling party is scrambling to pledge lower migration because Farage made it politically impossible not to. Reform UK is now the most trusted party on immigration, and Farage himself is the most trusted leader on the issue — beating even the Prime Minister. Two-thirds of Britons now say migration is too high, and even Keir Starmer, Britain’s liberal PM, is parroting Farage’s warnings, pledging to slash migration and warning the UK could become an “island of strangers.”
That’s what political courage does. It shifts the Overton Window. It forces the cowards to follow. Canada’s Conservatives should take note: speaking the truth about immigration isn’t just right — it’s smart politics.
Poilievre has moved the Conservatives further than Bergen, O’Toole, Ambrose, or Scheer ever did. The question now is whether he’s willing to go the full distance — before Canadians decide someone else will.
Because if leadership doesn’t act soon, the viral scene in Calgary this week won’t be a one-off spectacle. It will be the new normal in every major city. And by then, no amount of speeches will fix what’s been lost.
Protesters outside an asylum-seekers' hotel in Epping, Essex
This is an expanded version of my column in today’s Times (UK £)
Are the grooming gangs the new Brexit?
An opinion poll has shown that if Britain’s Labour government brings in a definition of Islamophobia, as it is planning to do, the “populist” Reform party would gain a 106-seat majority at a general election.
The deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, has appointed a panel to draw up this definition to be applied across the public sector. The idea is that it would provide a benchmark by which speech and actions deemed to be “Islamophobic” could be policed and suppressed.
The poll of 2000 people, carried out by J L Partners, found that before voters were told about this proposal Reform polled at 29 per cent and Labour at 23 per cent, indicating a Reform majority of 20 at a general election.
However, when respondents were asked how they would vote if Labour brought in a definition of Islamophobia, Reform rose to 30 per cent and Labour fell to 20 per cent, indicating a Reform majority of 106.
As the polling company’s founder said, the Islamophobia definition would be like Labour “setting off a tinderbox under what remains of their working-class vote”.
Just as with Brexit, Labour and the chattering classes are quite clueless within their smug echo chamber about the profound and dangerous disconnect between them and large numbers of ordinary people over this.
And as with Brexit, the disconnected feel their country has been taken away from them by an elite class that tars them with accusations of racism and Islamophobia if they object.
