User blog comment:Centrist16/SOMETHING EVERYONE MUST KNOW/@comment-3398633-20150809140026/@comment-3993996-20150809180953

"UK before May of this year was generally dominated by the socialist Labour Party, forcing Cameroon to settle for a coalition with other parties to combat Labour."

Nope. The UK was governed by a coalition between the Conservative and Liberal Democratic Parties that was elected in 2010 until 2015 when the Liberal Democrats lost most of their seats and the Tories gained enough for a majority. The Labour Party in the UK in the 1990's swung to the right under Tony Blair, who led the Third Way movement along with Bill Clinton in the USA. Socialists within the Labour Party revile Blair, who is seen as "Conservative-lite". One of the reasons the SNP are popular in the more left wing Scotland is due to their swing to the left, which made them more of a "socialist" party then Labour.

The French President who leads the French Socialist Party has identified himself as a proponent of the Third Way movement. Its likely he was only elected because his predecessor was so unpopular. France was governed from 2002 - 2012 by its mainstream conservative party in the legislature, and had conservative presidents from 1995 - 2012. I can hardly call that being governed by socialists.

Greece was governed from 2004 to 2009 by the centre right New Democracy party. In the 2009 elections following the '08 crash the Pahellenic Socialist Movement was elected, before in 2012 being replaced by the ND party. Syriza was only elected this year, and is in a coalition with the Independent Greeks party which is conservative. Greece's financial problems could be greatly eased if they leave the Eurozone and have control over their economy. Ultimately with Greece it is neither only the conservatives nor the socialists fault that the country is in a dire situation, but both of their faults.