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German to English: British Elections (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 30.04.2015) General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Government / Politics
Source text - German Jaywick ist das Dorf der Gestrandeten – nur, dass die Schiffbrüchigen nicht von der Nordsee angespült werden, sondern von der Landseite. Die kleine Ortschaft am Meer mit ihren 4800 Einwohnern ist laut amtlicher Statistik die ärmste in ganz England. Mehr als 60 Prozent der Bevölkerung im erwerbsfähigen Alter erhalten Arbeitslosen- oder Sozialhilfe. Jeder zweite Erwachsene hat keinerlei berufliche Qualifikation.
Gegründet in den dreißiger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts als Badeort für Arbeiterfamilien, besteht das Dorf überwiegend aus spartanischen eingeschossigen Häuschen. Über die Jahrzehnte sind sie zu Elendsquartieren heruntergekommen. Die Bewohner sind keine Urlauber, sondern leben dauerhaft hier. „Beirut“ nennen sie ihre trostlose Strandsiedlung sarkastisch.
Extrem sind in Jaywick nicht nur die Lebensumstände. 2014 lief der örtliche Abgeordnete im Wahlkreis Clacton von der konservativen Regierungspartei zur UK Independence Party (Ukip) über – der politischen Bewegung, deren Vorsitzender Nigel Farage sich kürzlich darüber beschwerte, dass sechs von zehn HIV-Patienten in Großbritannien Ausländer seien. In Jaywick und Umgebung stimmen mittlerweile 60 Prozent der Wähler für Ukip.
Es ist, als hätten die Gestrandeten all die Jahre darauf gewartet, dass es in ihrem Land endlich eine Alternative zum ewig gleichen Politik-Duopol gebe. Die konservative Tory-Partei und die mal mehr, mal weniger linke Labour Party regieren seit einem Jahrhundert wechselweise das Land. Das strikte Mehrheitswahlrecht verschaffte ihnen quasi ein Monopol auf die Macht.
Translation - English Jaywick is the village of the stranded - only that the shipwrecked are not washed ashore from the North Sea, but from landward. The small community on the sea with its 4,800 people is, according to official statistics, the poorest in the whole of England. Over 60 per cent of the working age population receive unemployment or other welfare benefits. Every second adult has no vocational qualifications.
Founded in the nineteen-thirties of the past century as a seaside resort for working class families, the village chiefly consists of spartan single-story bungalows. Over the decades, they have degenerated into slums. The inhabitants are not holidaymakers, but live here permanently. "Beirut" they call their dreary beach village sarcastically.
It is not only the circumstances that are extreme in Jaywick, in 2014 the local MP for the constituency of Clacton defected from the ruling Conservative Party to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) - the political movement whose leader Nigel Farage recently complained that six out of ten HIV patients in Great Britain were foreigners. In Jaywick and surroundings meanwhile 60 per cent of constituents vote UKIP.
It is as if the stranded had been waiting all these years for there finally to be an alternative to the ever-unchanging political duopoly in their country. The Tories and the, sometimes more sometimes less, left-wing Labour Party have been taking turns ruling the country for a century with the strict first-past-the-post-system giving them a quasi-power monopoly.
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