Posted on 12/08/2018 6:37:55 AM PST by RoosterRedux
EMMANUEL Macron’s reputation within the European Union has been seriously damaged by the violent protests engulfing France, which have triggered an “unprecedented political disaster” in the country, experts have warned.
The President’s leadership is hanging by a thread as left-wing groups within the French Parliament discuss launching a no confidence vote against him. According to an Fop-Fiducial poll, Emmanuel Macron’s popularity rating plummeted to a new low of 23 percent in November - down by a massive six percentage points from October. Paris in particular has been under siege from so-called “yellow vest” demonstrators, named after the high-visibility jackets all French motorists have to carry.
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The French President, along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are recognised as figureheads among European Union leaders, but the biggest disaster to hit his presidency thus far could call that into serious question.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Dr Oliver Davis, a reader of French Studies from the School of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Warwick, said: “It seriously damages his reputation for technocratic competence and calls his political judgement into question.
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Surprisingly no buildings have been torched so far.
Does that rate include the moslem horde? Because they have no intention of working when they can suckle off the government teat. What is the unemployment rate for just the French?
The Brits are pretty good too, but RT seems better. Obviously if it has to do with Russia or Putin, I think just about all of us are able to keep in mind our source, but on other stuff, they seem to do a good job.
“Ironically, it is the LEFT in France that is leading the charge against higher taxes.”
That may be accurate. This tax plan was a bad sales approach as well as a lousy idea. This sort of punitive taxation alone causes resentment in its target, but this was worse, this was not only a punishment for purchasing and running a motor vehicle, it made it difficult to impossible for the owners to get rid of that vehicle because nobody would want it. So they rightly viewed themselves as stuck. Still worse, someone on Macron's staff told the media the revenue raised would be redistributed to third world countries to offset their fictitious climate change damage as a part of Macron's widely touted Paris accords. So in essence what the middle and working class stiffs got was (1) moral disapproval, (2) higher taxes, (3) an inability to sell the offending vehicles, and (4) the people instituting the taxes publicly patting themselves on the back for giving the money away. Yeah, I'd be a little angry too.
When one feels that one is not represented by anything or anyone, and that one cannot reform the system from within, one seeks to free oneself from the established order and create a new system with its own rules.
Resemblance to the Declaration of Independence is not accidental.
Macron brought this on himself & obviously the French voters felt otherwise. Other than filling up a slush fund, this tax would have probably accomplished very little & most likely accomplished absolutely nothing for the average Frenchman.
Those European countries that have gone further down the road of socialism and Gaia Worship....and even added to it with their insane no borders multi culti ideology are fast approaching the breaking point. There is no easy way out. The money is rapidly running out despite America massively subsidizing their national defense not for years or decades but generations. This will not end well for them. There’s at least still hope for the Anglosphere.
The police union has stood up for it.
Thanks for the link and a BTT.
They have EU tanks in Paris and I wonder if they are even Paris police inside of them. When Russia invaded Georgia the Russians refused to go so they hired chechens to do the dirty work.
The best new - all of the other countries joining in.
Left wing groups are unhappy? I thought they were acolytes in the church of climate change and higher taxes. Macron should be one of their saints.
“The police union has stood up for it.”
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