Your final sentence says it all:-“may be enough to fend her off”.
Let’s hope NOT. France is as sclerotic as we are, and perhaps MLP will change that before it is too late.
Sadly we in the wretched UK have absolutely no equivalent to her.
In fact all we can say is we currently have the most worthless Parliament of outright charlatans (both sides) in living memory!
Would anyone seriously want to ‘share a trench’ with any of them?
Why fend her off? It’s time give her vision a chance. Certainly can’t be any worse than the last few Presidencies. All the ideological left wing nonsense about her is as old and tired in France as it is elsewhere.
Paul Castle
8 months ago
2nd ? Not in my book 1
Frank McCusker
8 months ago
Putin’s putain.
Tyler Durden
8 months ago
She will never be a Trump because the French associate her with the Vichy tradition.
British and Americans have no idea on this issue of le Front National in France.
I am conservative-leaning but Marine Le Pen has simply jumped on the populist bandwagon, finding it necessary to rename her party owing to their past associations.
Her father Jean-Marie Le Pen was regarded as neo-Fascist, and his party equivalent to the British National Party (for Americans, the racist National Front).
What has happened is that the populist insurgency of the last 6-7 years has sought representation and only Marine Le Pen was available on the political landscape. But Eric Zemmour also realised this and caused her some problems in the last presidentials.
In the UK, for instance, Nigel Farage would have got nowhere as a Brexit campaigner, if he’d had the history of Marine, Jean-Marie and their family party.
Your final sentence says it all:-“may be enough to fend her off”.
Let’s hope NOT. France is as sclerotic as we are, and perhaps MLP will change that before it is too late.
Sadly we in the wretched UK have absolutely no equivalent to her.
In fact all we can say is we currently have the most worthless Parliament of outright charlatans (both sides) in living memory!
Would anyone seriously want to ‘share a trench’ with any of them?
Jonny Mercer is the only one I would even consider ‘sharing a trench’ with.
Yes, agreed.
Thank you for expressing what I feel, but more eloquently!
An excellent post Charles !
Why fend her off? It’s time give her vision a chance. Certainly can’t be any worse than the last few Presidencies. All the ideological left wing nonsense about her is as old and tired in France as it is elsewhere.
2nd ? Not in my book 1
Putin’s putain.
She will never be a Trump because the French associate her with the Vichy tradition.
Most of France was Vichy until the summer of 1944, when it was all too obvious that they had LOST.
British and Americans have no idea on this issue of le Front National in France.
I am conservative-leaning but Marine Le Pen has simply jumped on the populist bandwagon, finding it necessary to rename her party owing to their past associations.
Her father Jean-Marie Le Pen was regarded as neo-Fascist, and his party equivalent to the British National Party (for Americans, the racist National Front).
What has happened is that the populist insurgency of the last 6-7 years has sought representation and only Marine Le Pen was available on the political landscape. But Eric Zemmour also realised this and caused her some problems in the last presidentials.
In the UK, for instance, Nigel Farage would have got nowhere as a Brexit campaigner, if he’d had the history of Marine, Jean-Marie and their family party.
So in short you are saying JMLP IS the equivalent of our the late, Sir Oswald Moseley?
Surely the key French LOSS was in 1940?
Yes, hence wholeheartedly Vichy until mid 1944.