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JUDGEMENT DAY
Nearly thirty years in France and I've never faced a Presidential Election like this one. Normally it's the centre-left or the centre-right who alternate in power like box and cox. This time the scenario risks being radically altered. There are five main candidates and if the polls are anywhere near correct, only four who have a chance of qualifying for the second round. The official socialist candidate (aka Corbyn) is so far behind that he can be discounted......so who's left?
FILLON
The official right wing candidate.....calling him centre right, would be stretching the truth........he is a hard right, Thatcherite, with a strong catholic streak. (bye bye women's rights) So, five years of austerity, running down social services, privatising. Favouring big business and widening the divide between rich and poor. Creating lower unemployment by creating crap jobs (zero hour contracts) a vast reduction in worker's rights. One of the main reasons I left the UK was to get away from Thatcher!.....no thanks!!!
LE PEN and MELENCHON
What on earth am I doing grouping these two together?......extreme-right and extreme-left. Well, read their programmes and you would be surprised just how much they resemble each other. These two are far closer to each other than they are to the centre. Both with euro skeptic and protectionist ideas, which would savage the economy. True, there are things in both these candidates programmes that I like but the disaster I believe either of them would be for France and Europe is frightening.
Le Pen's façade of a sanitised FN is unbelievable apart from to those blind and gullible. Her presence last year in Germany at a conference for fascists and racists, let the mask slip. Her stepping back from admitting guilt of the French state in roundind up and deporting jews in the second-world war, let's a little more light in on who exactly are the FN. Daech would certainly vote FN, in promoting fear, hate and conflict between France and its muslim population. Normally, my tendence to the left would lead me to sympathise more with Mélenchon.........it doesn't. Apart from disagreement with his programme I fear something of the dictator behind this charismatic and amusing façade. Someone who has supported Chavez and what he has done to Venezuela, sets my alarm bells ringing.
MACRON
Young, charismatic but without the backing of an established party. A message of hope rather than one of fear and hate. The right claim he is on the left (citing him being a minister in Hollande's government). The left will claim he is on the right (from his banking background, which allowed him to accumulate wealth)........he would claim he is neither. Probably no radical solutions or promises here but a relooking of everything in the hope of creating a more dynamic and fairer society.
Is there really a choice???????
Nearly thirty years in France and I've never faced a Presidential Election like this one. Normally it's the centre-left or the centre-right who alternate in power like box and cox. This time the scenario risks being radically altered. There are five main candidates and if the polls are anywhere near correct, only four who have a chance of qualifying for the second round. The official socialist candidate (aka Corbyn) is so far behind that he can be discounted......so who's left?
FILLON
The official right wing candidate.....calling him centre right, would be stretching the truth........he is a hard right, Thatcherite, with a strong catholic streak. (bye bye women's rights) So, five years of austerity, running down social services, privatising. Favouring big business and widening the divide between rich and poor. Creating lower unemployment by creating crap jobs (zero hour contracts) a vast reduction in worker's rights. One of the main reasons I left the UK was to get away from Thatcher!.....no thanks!!!
LE PEN and MELENCHON
What on earth am I doing grouping these two together?......extreme-right and extreme-left. Well, read their programmes and you would be surprised just how much they resemble each other. These two are far closer to each other than they are to the centre. Both with euro skeptic and protectionist ideas, which would savage the economy. True, there are things in both these candidates programmes that I like but the disaster I believe either of them would be for France and Europe is frightening.
Le Pen's façade of a sanitised FN is unbelievable apart from to those blind and gullible. Her presence last year in Germany at a conference for fascists and racists, let the mask slip. Her stepping back from admitting guilt of the French state in roundind up and deporting jews in the second-world war, let's a little more light in on who exactly are the FN. Daech would certainly vote FN, in promoting fear, hate and conflict between France and its muslim population. Normally, my tendence to the left would lead me to sympathise more with Mélenchon.........it doesn't. Apart from disagreement with his programme I fear something of the dictator behind this charismatic and amusing façade. Someone who has supported Chavez and what he has done to Venezuela, sets my alarm bells ringing.
MACRON
Young, charismatic but without the backing of an established party. A message of hope rather than one of fear and hate. The right claim he is on the left (citing him being a minister in Hollande's government). The left will claim he is on the right (from his banking background, which allowed him to accumulate wealth)........he would claim he is neither. Probably no radical solutions or promises here but a relooking of everything in the hope of creating a more dynamic and fairer society.
Is there really a choice???????