Charlie StrossJul 8, 2024

Is it just me, or does The Guardian—nominally a centre-left newspaper—seem to be promoting doomsday narratives predicting fascist triumphs in the face of weak/incompetent centre-left leadership? Like, everywhere? They tried to do it in the UK wrt. Reform, they did it in France, they're talking down Biden and talking up Republican-backed calls for him to step down in favour of any other presidential candidate at short notice (who?).

Has The Guardian finally flipped and turned quietly pro-fash?

Show threadFediThing Jul 8, 2024

@cstross

I don't know if it's Guardian specifically, but there are a weirdly large number of outlets (including the Guardian) claiming that the far right have taken over the european parliament.

The actual results show the number of far right MEPs has barely changed, but no one is reporting this for some reason.

EDIT: Yes the far right did gain seats in some countries, but they lost seats in others. For whatever reason, the countries where the far right vote collapsed aren't being reported as much as the ones where they gained.

(SOURCE: European Union election results page at https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/european-results/2024-2029/)

2024 Election results | 2024 European election results | European Parliament

Official results of the 2024 European elections.

2024 European election results
Show threadCaro S.
@FediThing @cstross Would you mind editing the AltText and adding the number of seats before and after?
Jul 8, 2024 at 12:04pmWeb
Show threadFediThing Jul 8, 2024

@Heidentweet @cstross

I can if you want, but the seat numbers aren't relevant to the vote share, those numbers just mean the total seats in the parliament of all parties.

EDIT: I've added that to the alt text.