Macron - again!

Nick · April 26, 2022, 10:46:57 PM

Quote from: Streetwalker on April 26, 2022, 06:43:56 AM
The yellow vests will at a guess be back on the streets by Christmas .

I think they were out within hours of the result.

Streetwalker · April 26, 2022, 06:43:56 AM

The election was to vote for France or vote for the EU . The French have decided to vote for an EU president

The legistalive elections which forms the government (If the French can make confusion where there was none they will manage to) take place in June .
Macron will nominate the prime minister from the party with the most seats which last time was his own .

If however another party gets the most seats ( quite possible) he will have to name another parties leader as prime minister and his domestic agenda will be shredded .
This though is where coalitions start to form to keep the winning party from winning the premiership and though France will have an elected President they will have a coalition government of parties that lost and a prime minister that nobody has ever heard of

The yellow vests will at a guess be back on the streets by Christmas .

B-4 · April 26, 2022, 01:22:06 AM

Quote from: T00ts on April 25, 2022, 09:38:37 AMI guess we should be somewhat grateful that Le Pen didn't win but my goodness the filmed sequences of Macron receiving the adulation of his supporters and his subsequent speech chills my soul. There is something distinctly odd about this man. He still reminds me of Tony Blair in the way he performs. He is such a poser. I felt for his poor wife who at times looked as though she would have been much happier with a hot chocolate and a comfortable pair of slippers.

He has always talked of his love for the UK but he has been nothing but a thorn in our side since the Brexit vote and with his Presidency of the EU for the moment I guess we can expect even more quasi aggression as he portrays his perceived role at the top.

Le Pen was never going to win and even if they managed to win an election they'd be taken down by the hysterical mass-media, whilst the EU censors everything else.

B-4 · April 26, 2022, 01:02:51 AM

It's impossible to find a balanced story. It's either Macron, who is owned by the French banks and corporations, or the "far-right" "neo-fascists", who are smeared by the establishment's fake news outlets. No one is standing up against the appalling and insulting BS we call the media, and instead, they only ever attack anything that actually questions it. It highlights just how insecure the western regimes really are.

cromwell · April 25, 2022, 07:14:53 PM

It matters little who won as far as we are concerned,bashing the English is popular with some French so expect nothing from him other than more of the same for us.

patman post · April 25, 2022, 06:42:40 PM

Macron trounced his competitor — who was only there because the French love to upset the apple-cart and throw a spanner in the works whenever possible, but they do retreat when their actions threaten to turn round and bite them on them bum.

It's happened before — It got them Mitterrand, Chirac, and Hollande...

T00ts · April 25, 2022, 01:52:32 PM

Quote from: johnofgwent on April 25, 2022, 01:34:33 PM
Are you fully aware of the relationship.(or lack of) between him and his wife .... I'm not "sorry" for her at all

I am aware of the rumours if that's what you are referring to. I just watched her face as she winced in those ridiculous shoes. She seems to be wasting away and there is such a thing as supporting a pupil beyond reason. I think she reached that point some considerable time ago

johnofgwent · April 25, 2022, 01:34:33 PM

Quote from: T00ts on April 25, 2022, 09:38:37 AM
I guess we should be somewhat grateful that Le Pen didn't win but my goodness the filmed sequences of Macron receiving the adulation of his supporters and his subsequent speech chills my soul. There is something distinctly odd about this man. He still reminds me of Tony Blair in the way he performs. He is such a poser. I felt for his poor wife who at times looked as though she would have been much happier with a hot chocolate and a comfortable pair of slippers.

He has always talked of his love for the UK but he has been nothing but a thorn in our side since the Brexit vote and with his Presidency of the EU for the moment I guess we can expect even more quasi aggression as he portrays his perceived role at the top.

Are you fully aware of the relationship.(or lack of) between him and his wife .... I'm not "sorry" for her at all

johnofgwent · April 25, 2022, 01:32:49 PM

Unsurprisingly some here might think I've been keeping an eye on the poor lad for some time.

The French system is very simple

Five sets of varying degrees of left wing nastiness ensure the first vote is shredded giving Marine second place behind Macron with most of the other lefties so far back after that it's a joke.

Then when it's Macron Vs Marine all the lefties vote for hecwho was grannysnatched to stop the fascists ....

The same BS has occurred four times now

T00ts · April 25, 2022, 12:50:08 PM

Quote from: Barry on April 25, 2022, 12:33:21 PM
Macron is being rewarded by the French people for the excellent job he did with the negotiations with Premier Putin.

Barry · April 25, 2022, 12:33:21 PM

Macron is being rewarded by the French people for the excellent job he did with the negotiations with Premier Putin.

T00ts · April 25, 2022, 10:31:38 AM

Quote from: HallowedBrexit on April 25, 2022, 10:03:23 AM
Agreed.

If you compare him to a statesman of the calibre of Boris Johnson, Macron is almost insignificant.

The Entente is broken for good. It's time for the next state to follow us out of the EU and I guess it will be Italy. Billions and Billions of populists there.

I'm not sure I can concur with your view of Boris. He has attributes but his moral compass is very faulty and it badly lets us all down. Sadly he is also surrounded by those who will use any means to de-throne him or I suspect, any other Tory or Brexit supporter leader. Who would be a politician?

HallowedBrexit · April 25, 2022, 10:03:23 AM

Agreed.

If you compare him to a statesman of the calibre of Boris Johnson, Macron is almost insignificant.

The Entente is broken for good. It's time for the next state to follow us out of the EU and I guess it will be Italy. Billions and Billions of populists there.

T00ts · April 25, 2022, 09:38:37 AM

I guess we should be somewhat grateful that Le Pen didn't win but my goodness the filmed sequences of Macron receiving the adulation of his supporters and his subsequent speech chills my soul. There is something distinctly odd about this man. He still reminds me of Tony Blair in the way he performs. He is such a poser. I felt for his poor wife who at times looked as though she would have been much happier with a hot chocolate and a comfortable pair of slippers.

He has always talked of his love for the UK but he has been nothing but a thorn in our side since the Brexit vote and with his Presidency of the EU for the moment I guess we can expect even more quasi aggression as he portrays his perceived role at the top.