Deborah Cole
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first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
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And people have pointed to things like his communication style and things.
But I think that that, you know, kind of underplays how complex these problems are.
And so you have, you know, people have mentioned a few men who have been mentioned as potential successors.
You see them kind of, you know, biding their time for various reasons.
And so as long as no one is sort of, you know, willing to wield the dagger and go for him, and as long as Friedrich Mautz says, I'm willing to, you know, stick it out through humiliation after humiliation.
Yeah.
Then you do have this kind of, in a strange sense, you know, stability, but it feels at the same time quite volatile, if you see what I mean.
voter anger is growing and the political class says, no, no, we're going to just keep fighting on.
now.
You almost could have a bit of sympathy for him.
Yeah,
Yeah, I do.
I mean, I think, you know, as I mentioned earlier, you know, you can't just put it down to an ineffective communication style.
I think that that really would, you know, kind of whitewash how huge the problems are.
But that said, Friedrich Merz, you know, he is a bit of a tetchy character.
He really does have something of an empathy deficit.
I think in a lot of his arguments for the political reforms, the economic reforms that he said,
says are so necessary to get, you know, Germany's economy moving again.
He seems to have put the onus sort of on, you know, working class and middle class Germans, that they need to be working harder.
And if they would only sort of, you know, pull their socks up, then we could get, you know, Germany moving again.
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