Watching the Tagesschau

[tree_and_leaf]

... good God, Claudia Roth looks like somebody's mad scary aunt.

And the Young Greens actually write their banners out by hand. It looked strangely like something from forty years ago, and probably something that should have been accompanied by red flags rather than green.

Also: please, no more rail strikes. Though Deutsche Bahn isn't helping, either, and why anyone thinks privatisation on the British model is going to help can only be guessed.

ETA: OMG fire on the Thistle Alpha oil platform. Thank God, no-one hurt, but that was frightning and revived bad memories of the Piper Alpha (my heart rate went up at the start of the report!). That's one of the things I'll never forget hearing about on the news as a child (along with Challenger, Chernobyl, the Lockerbie bombing and, more happily, the Berlin Wall). But I had nightmares about Piper Alpha, and the stories about people jumping from the burning partner into the burning sea...

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

While it's been a few years since I've done any German, and thus my vocabulary has energetically taken a spade and buried itself in the garden of oblivion, I looked up the Tagesschau website to see the relevant report - and very much see what you mean about Claudia Roth, though if I have a mad scary aunt, she is of a different strain. Reassuring to see that demagoguery is not dead; and the handwritten banners and placards had an air of calculation amid the verdant colour-coordination of the rally.

[tree_and_leaf]

and the handwritten banners and placards had an air of calculation amid the verdant colour-coordination of the rally.

Yes, that was my feeling, though the Greens are an odd bunch. I think they're about to go the same way as Labour in the Eighties, actually, they seem to have give up on practical policies; but at the same time they are very keen on looking like the natural honest alternative to politicians, and so keen on it that it begins to look a bit unconvincing.

Except for Fr Roth, but I'm not sure it would make me keener to vote for her.

[mk-tortie.livejournal.com]

Yes, please no more rail strikes!!