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🚨 Germany’s firewall is still preventing the AfD from entering government but it was never capable of extinguishing the political fire behind it. The deeper failure is that mainstream parties have: 🔹copied the AfD’s language and made immigration the test of whether government is succeeding; 🔹left industrial decline, regional inequality and demographic collapse largely unanswered; 🔹formed awkward coalitions defined principally by opposition to the AfD; 🔹allowed the AfD to enjoy the authority of winning without ever having to reconcile its promises with budgets, law or reality. 🆘 Merz’s tougher migration policies have validated the AfD’s diagnosis and encouraged voters to choose the original rather than the imitation. ⚠️ This is the warning for Britain. Labour cannot defeat Reform by repeating Reform’s framing while preserving the economic conditions feeding public anger. It needs to offer visible material change: growth, housing, functioning services, regional investment, secure work and an end to the Brexit damage through the single market and customs union. The firewall is necessary but without economic renewal, it becomes little more than a cordon around an ever-growing fire. @Raza_2013_ 👇 analysis⁠ is a direct warning to @andyburnham