[kreuzberger]

That's another year of recession booked, albeit with a marginal contraction.

I am no fan of voxpops, but I recently saw an interview with young, affluent Chinese consumers who referred to German automobiles as "boomer cars" which are driven by their grandparents. That should put a shiver down the industry's spine and the 800,000 employees directly involved in the sector.

A friend of our works at the Arbeitsamt (Job Centre with extras) in Bavaria, and he is seeing new clients wandering in in a steady stream, following redundancy. There are very few 100k jobs to offer them.

[Philip Marlow]

From the party that brought you ‘Hitler was a communist’…

[Killer Whale]

To be fair, they've put them through every mailbox, though they'll probably have a slightly more chilling effect on some demographics, and maybe this was the intention.

[Tubby Isaacs]

From the party that brought you ‘Hitler was a communist’…

Elmo thinks that as well.

I've seen "Hitler was a socialist" before, never until recently that he was a communist. Quite the thing for Germans to come out with it.

[Bones McCoy]

From the party that brought you ‘Hitler was a communist’…

Pop a ticket for a thousand bomber raid through theirs.

Title it "How it ends".

[Andy McDandy]

Hitler was a member of many political groups, before settling on the Nazis (or whatever they were called beforehand). So yes, he was a Communist in the sense that Lee Anderson* was once a Labour member.

*Even better, Toby Young when he joined up to get Corbyn elected leader.

[kreuzberger]

Every household in Germany is required to have a post letter with the name of the family clearly displayed upon it. Curiously, the party activists distributing their filth managed to deliver predominantly to those with non-German names.

Oliver Khan is yet to comment.

[Youngian]

Last I heard is that Germany still had a labour shortage problem despite free movement and increased immigration. In some skilled fields the world is running out of immigrants.
So we may have to embrace depopulation anyway but none of these hard right gobshites give any thought as to how to mitigate the transition. They prefer potty pronouncement about how white women need to have more babies.

[kreuzberger]

Every household in Germany is required to have a post letter with the name of the family clearly displayed upon it. Curiously, the party activists distributing their filth managed to deliver predominantly to those with non-German names.

Oliver Khan is yet to comment.

EDIT. Post box / Letterbox, obvs.

[kreuzberger]

A fine turn-out today in protest of Merz' cavalier attitude to the firewall. We live about ten minutes' walk from the heart of all the action. So, yes, it's been a busy afternoon around here.

[kreuzberger]

By way of explanation; the "firewall" is not a pseudo-computer term, rather it has been translated straight out of the German Brandwall or Brandmauer.

This concept has a huge significance in post-war German society, as it was just this architectural device which preserved multiple occupancy buildings being destroyed by contagious fire during the away-leg of the Blitz, which was calamitous for urban communities. Neighbouring houses were left largely unscathed.

In Berlin, Hamburg, and Dresden, in particular, many of these sites are yet to be redeveloped and the Brandmauer are commonplace.

They are very real and this is what they look like;



I am sitting barely two meters from a Brandmauer because the house next door was destroyed during the gloriously successful assault on the Bendler Block.