Voters lack confidence in the Left's crisis policy

Martin Weiss writes in the conservative daily Lidové Noviny that the European elections have shown up the weaknesses of the Left in the economic crisis: "This is a particularly interesting anomaly, because many people have tried to paint the recession as having definitively discredited Anglo-Saxon or neoliberal capitalism. Who knows why that made no difference on election day. Possibly the European social systems are so effective that they can fend off practically all of the negative consequences of the crisis on living standards. Maybe the voters noticed that the Left and the Right use rhetoric to mask how little their economic policies actually differ. Or it could be that the electorate felt that the Left has no better ideas about how to tackle the crisis than the Right. Everyone wants more regulation, but at the same time everyone is afraid to admit they haven't got a clue as to how to do it."

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