French politics today

Category: Legislative Elections 2024

A week? Nah! Two days is a long time in [French Left] politics

(4 minutes read) Well that certainly didn’t take long. It was barely a couple of days since the creation of the Left’s New Popular Front before the traditional Stalinist machine politics of Hard Left Jean-Luc Melenchon (off-screen puppet-master and full-time Mafia-style boss of ‘his’ very own France Unbowed party) returned to full view. In its…

June 16, 2024
‘We are celebrating the Entente Cordiale in our own way. You [Brits] offered us such a political shitshow for years that we owe you a bit back’ (a ‘senior French official’ quoted by analyst Mujtaba Rahman)

(5 minutes read) Pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral. For two consecutive days the Right has been utterly, brilliantly, totally, tragical – comical The Executive Committee of the traditional-Right Les Républicains had intended meeting yesterday afternoon in their party HQ. Their objective? The removal of their increasingly-deranged Party President, Captain Eric Ciotti, from the command of The…

June 13, 2024
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark or Après Moi, Le Déluge

You’re joking – not another one ‘Brenda from Bristol’ is a folk hero of recent British political history. Interviewed in a BBC vox pop (after Theresa May called a General Election), Brenda pronounced, in a wonderful local accent: ‘You’re joking – not another one … There’s too much politics going on at the moment’. Last…

June 12, 2024