Macron

[bluethrunthru]

He has just been handed his " Falklands moment" - how he handles the Notre Dame will probably determine his future

 

[mat]

He has just been handed his " Falklands moment" - how he handles the Notre Dame will probably determine his future

This.

The protestors will be booking piss if millions of euros are diverted to its restoration whilst he's claiming the country can't afford to maintain workers rights and pensions.

 

[Ban-jani]

No but I would tend to give him more ear time if he was making less of a pigs ear of trying to run his own country.

I don’t think he’s making a pigs ear of it necessary, it depends upon which way your political persuasion is.

People are angry because he pledged to help the poor and let’s say for example be the next Blair by increasing living standards but he’s been David Cameron instead.

 

[BobKowalski]

I don’t think he’s making a pigs ear of it necessary, it depends upon which way your political persuasion is.

People are angry because he pledged to help the poor and let’s say for example be the next Blair by increasing living standards but he’s been David Cameron instead.

More Thatcher. For years the French have bemoaned the high state spending, inefficiency of the state etc. Yet any attempts to reform the same people are out on the streets. Macron has actually passed a lot of reforms which is why he is unpopular, as was Thatcher in the first couple of years, but if the reforms start to show benefit come reelection then he’ll probably win another term if they don’t then he’s toast.

Agree with you on The Norte Dame moment being a potential rallying cry.

 

[Ban-jani]

More Thatcher. For years the French have bemoaned the high state spending, inefficiency of the state etc. Yet any attempts to reform the same people are out on the streets. Macron has actually passed a lot of reforms which is why he is unpopular, as was Thatcher in the first couple of years, but if the reforms start to show benefit come reelection then he’ll probably win another term if they don’t then he’s toast.

Agree with you on The Norte Dame moment being a potential rallying cry.

Yeah I think this is a better post than mine.

The locals I spoke with were annoyed because they thought they’d voted for a Centrist but his reforms have been further to the right.

 

[blueparrot]

Yeah I think this is a better post than mine.

The locals I spoke with were annoyed because they thought they’d voted for a Centrist but his reforms have been further to the right.

I think he's more 3rd way centrist which many voters , like here, probably think that's taking a position between left and right, whereas in reality it's cherry picking policies from the left or from the right and being pragmatic rather than idealist.

 

[Ban-jani]

I think he's more 3rd way centrist which many voters , like here, probably think that's taking a position between left and right, whereas in reality it's cherry picking policies from the left or from the right and being pragmatic rather than idealist.

You’re absolutely correct.

And now the French are livid because he’s chosen some policies on the right.

 

[ganganvince]

Could his time as the king of Europe be on the horizon?

The likely winner of the German election? Macron and France

Sean O’Grady explains why the successor to Angela Merkel is likely to lack her authority in Europe, thus shifting power towards Paris

www.independent.co.uk

 

[BobKowalski]

Could his time as the king of Europe be on the horizon?

The likely winner of the German election? Macron and France

Sean O’Grady explains why the successor to Angela Merkel is likely to lack her authority in Europe, thus shifting power towards Paris

www.independent.co.uk

Yes. In concert with Italy led by Draghi, ex boss of the ECB.

If Scholz becomes German Chancellor, he is likely to be supportive of Macron rather than lead, but Germany has the dominant economy, so it will always be at the forefront of everyone's thinking.