It is the phrase of the hour, he is capable of – and he comes from the Governing mayor: “So it doesn’t go any further!”, scolded Michael Müller at the weekend in his role as the Berlin SPD chief over their own government coalition. The left and the Greens, he said, “common sense” and announced that it plans to block partners ‘ projects, in a defiant Fußaufstampfer included.

At the same time, but this sentence is so wrong as the applause he got from the delegates of the SPD-party tags, because it is more but everything is quite the same. Müller speaks from a Position of strength from which he could enforce what he thinks is right. He manages to not once more, in his own party to enforce. How is he going to be taken in the Senate as head of government, in the coalition as SPD-chief or even in the city’s top landmarks of Berlin – and seriously? His word speaks for itself, applies only in the narrow limits, the pull to him.

First, then against it, then

moved The housing debate is a good example of this. After some Back-and-Forth at the beginning of the year in which the Director did not want to exclude the governing mayor of Berlin, to the horror of the economy, the forced socialization of large enterprises “as a fourth or fifth step,” he paddled to the shore and announced his rejection of the popular initiative “Deutsche Wohnen & Co expropriate”.

But his party pushed Müller again, only a small swimming help you threw: you shifted the topic to the autumn, until then, the attitude of the government party, and therefore also that of the heads of government on this important issue as consistent as water, no matter what Müller also says – and this only a week before the start of the signature collection.

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That such a decision of refusal is praised as a success, with the grounds, Miller had not suffered a direct defeat, says more about the state of the Berlin SPD the survey of values, since the party is in a stable behind the Green, Left and the CDU in place 4. order

The sense of subjects lost

The attempted explanation for the shift does not make things better: so Far only “perceived facts” in the expropriation issue, it said. Thus, the Central Problem of the SPD is described quite well: it rotates in all directions and feel in everywhere, but wherever she lands, it’s either cold or wet or it is calling another party: “Here we are!”

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decide The after all, Müller very well. He called on his party to the other not always chase, but to set their own topics and to keep track of. However, the SPD came the sense of loss, what are your issues, that is why she clings so to the term: perceived facts. This makes them so long, until also, the claim that Müller was the mayor, is, at best, a “perceived fact” – and then soon no more.