Merkel's paying the price for her migrant welcome, and more worryingly, the far right party has gained popularity due largely to her mishandling of the migrant crisis. You see the great, the good and the deluded can bang on all they like about welcomes and morality ad nauseam but when the people believe they're not being listened to or, worse still, simply having their interests placed second to migrants on a large scale, increasing extremism is the result.
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Germany's CDU, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, has suffered historic losses in Berlin state elections.
It has been ousted from the state governing coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats.
Meanwhile the right-wing anti-migrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD) made gains and will enter the state parliament for the first time.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37403542
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"A long-term and massive loss in trust among traditional voters threatens the conservative bloc," he told the Bild daily, adding Ms Merkel's right-left national coalition had to win back support by changing course on its immigration policy.
The election Berlin, a city-state of 3.5 million people, was dominated by local issues including poor public services, crumbling school buildings, late trains and a housing shortage, as well as problems in coping with the migrant influx.
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It's quite clear that a growing number of people don't believe they've been gifted a 'net benefit' so someone needs to start listening to them pretty damned soon.