Quelle Surprise

July 27, 2018 Longrider French Matters, General News, Humour, misanthropy, Political 7

Macron is falling out of favour with the French.

Political analysts say more than a third of the French electorate was already having doubts about President Emmanuel Macron, whose second-round election victory was boosted by voters’ dislike of his far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen, but were willing to give him a chance. Now he risks losing their support.

The only surprise is how long it’s taken. Macron was always a plastic president – a French Tony Blair who promised to be all things to all men, who claimed to tread the centre ground yet proposed to do a Thatcher on France. Actually, that last bit is probably overdue and will be horribly painful but necessary if the French economy is to move out of the nineteen seventies. But that’s another story.

France would probably have been better to elect Le Pen. Oh, and the usual suspects who refer to her as “far right” clearly are unaware that nationalism and right-wing ain’t necessarily the same thing. France for the French isn’t right-wing any more than British Jobs for British workers is.

Much of Le Pen’s manifesto was, in fact, about protectionism, which would find favour with much of rural France. Still, they baked their cake, they must now eat it.

7 Comments

  1. I’m glad you made the point. There is no way Le Pen is right wing as commonly accepted on the political spectrum. The only way she is “far right” is in the eyes of the usual suspects who claim that any nationalism must be “far right” because only good socialists (communists) are internationalists.

  2. It wasn’t all that long ago she was called far left. Couple of years, at most. Or am I mis-remembering?

  3. Macron:

    £26,000 on make-up in first three months

    Thug employed by him on £100,000pa + free apartment is his boyfriend

    Macron has 36% support and declining

    May has -26% support and declining

    God, please help us be ridded of these charlatans.

  4. ‘Far Right’ aka Fascism shares common roots with Socialism: empowerment of the State over the individual; central planning and control of the economy and neither uphold property rights. They are conjoined ugly twins.

    The only difference is application, Socialism being a struggle between classes and Fascism an external struggle between nations.

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