Category: Macron Government 2
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Some (light) reading for the festive season
First Things First – 40 TODAY The Right – direction of travel … rightwards Seriously Hard Man of The Right, Laurent Wauquiez, has been overwhelmingly (and predictably) elected by the ever-dwindling membership of France’s conservative party (aka Les Républicains in its most recent manifestation) and so become its President. Wauquiez picked up 75% of the…
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It’s the same the whole world over: It’s the poor what gets the blame. It’s the rich what gets the pleasure; Ain’t it all a bloomin’ shame. (Street ballad. Anon.)
The pleasuring of the rich: flaunt your yachts, private jets and gold ingots.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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We swanned through the first half of September. But it’s a month of two halves.
Out on the Streets … it was Day of Action N° 1View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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What about the workers?
‘Europe is not a supermarket’ (President Macron)
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Un Macron peut en cacher un autre
Is this man … the seriously europhile, economic liberal previously (self-)portrayed, or a somewhat more traditional French politician?
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‘I am monarch of all I survey’
Who’s the daddy? (pt 1) Not the Prime Minister. He erroneously thought – following the possibly-rather-worse-than-expected news about the state of the Government’s finances – that it made sense to delay the cuts in the (national) wealth and (local) property taxes. The Man Who Is Really In Charge thundered to the weak-kneed PM: ‘I have…
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‘You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose’ (Gov. Mario Cuomo). So this is where The Prose beginneth.
‘In the French political system, it’s the figure of the King which is absent: I fundamentally believe that the French people didn’t want him dead.’ (E Macron, July 2015)
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A month is an eternity in politics
Vive la différence
French politics today 