Captain Haddock wrote:An extraordinary election when every other western democracy seems to be turning to the 'right'
1. Spain's conservative People's Party wins 34.2% of the vote, ahead of the Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialist Workers Party with 30.2%, with almost all votes counted.
2. Exit polls show Giorgia Meloni's right-wing party is set to win most seats in Italy, beating centre-left opposition.
3. Belgium's Prime Minister De Croo says 'it was a particularly difficult evening, we lost' in speech in which he announced resignation
4. Macron dissolved parliament, calls snap legislative elections after his list was defeated by Le Pen's.
5. Bloomberg reports that Germany's Chancellor Scholz has been 'trounced' by parties on the right.
6. England about to vote for a cabinet who to a man backed Corbyn less than five years ago! (In fairness Mike Tapp has said “I wouldn’t have stood under the previous administration… Coming from a military background, defence and security means so much to me and you have to be able to trust your government on defence and security").