Emmanuel Macron sparked fury today by claiming Brexit was the product of ‘lies and false promises’ in a bitter broadside at Britain’s departure from the EU.
The French president lashed out at the UK’s decision to quit the block on the night it finally took place, more than four years after the Brexit referendum.
He used his New Year address to his nation to castigate the UK’s decision to go it alone after agreeing a trade deal which could damage the French fishing fleet – and his grip on power.
In the address delivered from the Elysee Palace, Paris, Mr Macron questioned the strength of Britain’s sovereignty following its departure from the European Union.
Is anyone interested in the pathetic whining of Le petit Napoleon? This vacuous nonentity who won the presidential election because he wasn’t Marine Le Penn? A candidate who having got in has proved to be massively unpopular?
Oh, the salt is flowing right enough and the lamentations are a joy to hear.
The video address came after his father, Jean-Michel Macron, 70, spoke publicly about his son for the first time since he entered office in 2017 and denounced him as a ‘self-serving’ politician.
Ouch. Harsh but true.
Mr Macron’s outburst came as a new era of trading with the European Union began smoothly as lorries rolled into Dover and Dublin ports, ferries set off for France and Eurotunnel officials welcomed the first truck into the UK just after midnight.
Of course they did. Only the arch remainers thought anything else.
https://youtu.be/ZVYbgDpWks0 There’s a few of them over here as well still
Alastair Campbell whining about lies. Such irony and lack of self awareness.
Macron can kiss my arse.
He’ll be gone soon enough too.
Denounced as a self-serving politician.
Is that not like denouncing water for being wet?
Yes, at last a scrap of good news, free from the EU dictatorship at last. Listening to the whining from the side that lost is the icing on the cake. I’m raising a glass of quality scotch as we speak.
Not so fast.
The 2000 page agreement is a bit too big to read and digest in any sort of timely manner. This resulted in two things:
1) The MP’s who voted on it did not have a clue about what it contained and the implications.
2) The press and the MP’s would rely on Government publicity and press release handouts to understand what it contained.
In the case of point no. 2 then Bozo Johnson is behaving lie the proverbial used car salesman and only pointing out the glittery bits, carefully not mentioning the bad. It will tale the lawyers and other experts a good deal longer than the five days between the signing and the vote to consider the implications and the pitfalls deliberately included in the deal.
This guy seems to have spotted one or two potential mines in the garden path:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZp3zx0pUU
His delivery is somewhat irritating in its slow pacing but watch it at 1.25 speed. He maes some excellent points.
Your video link is from Boxing Day. The chap seems to be a lot more optimistic one week later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdc9CBwFkRY
Wonderwhat his father-in-law’s opinion of Micron is?
Total aside. Once working in France in Region Landes I overheard French engineers talking about a colleague, and one said “Pah! Il est un “coo”” . Which caught my Scottish ear – a coo being a cow.
Asked my French mate to clarify, and he replied in an embarrassed way (The French there are very polite and as far as I know I never heard swearing.) “‘e was saying that ‘e is an arshole.” Then twigged that the word was “cul”, which sort of made sense.
The French there were great. Hated Parisiens, thought Germans had no sense of humour, loved whisky – even a shopfloor worker went into ectasy when I produced a bottle of Lagavulin – loved rugby, having a few drinks. EU rules treated with contempt. The horse butcher working over his wares laid out in an unglazed shop front with fag dangling from his lip. No one had the vapours. Maybe they knew that ash that has been at several hundreds C cannot infect meat.
French for cow is vache…
Pedantry aside, yes, I had the same experience of the French.
Shouldn’t it be Macaroon? Sweet, sticky, edible only in small doses and leaves you picking your teeth . . .
@The Jannie,
And tiny, with it. Popular with elderly ladies – possibly explains his wife.
His wife seems sane, he on the other hand is a psychopath.