France General Discussion III: Tout doit disparaître

[Leftbehind]

The baguette is the envy of the whole world

Calm down m8.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

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Either:

-They too ashamed of their culture
-They can't find anything worth saving to the 'World Heritage'
-They think UN could steal their fishes in their seas and thus it would automatically deprive the 'World Heritage' from 'Fish and chips' and then they find that this doesnt make sense at all
-They prepare a BreUNxit
-They don't give a penny
-They too, like me, are quite puzzled by that freezing of the world culture, in which moreover some things are entitled to be part of 'Humanity Heritage' and some are not.

Moreover, the BBC article, or even Macron for that matter doesnt even specify whether it is about the baguette from the bakery which is on the main road or the little one that is on the corner of my street, which frankly is way better, and the one worth saving if any.

[NewYorkExpress]

The baguette is the envy of the whole world

Calm down m8.

I wasn't Emmanuel Macron last time I checked...though I do like baguettes.

[Leftbehind]

It wasn't addressed to you, ffs. You wanted me to change the quote to read Emmanuel Macron?!

[NewYorkExpress]

It wasn't addressed to you, ffs. You wanted me to change the quote to read Emmanuel Macron?!

Of course not. But you didn't have quote me, you could have just gone back to the article and posted from there... like Benwah did.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Macron waving his baguette in everyone's face, calling it the envy of the world... Jesus! If you want people to eat your baguette just ask nicely.

[Tintrlvr]

Honestly, this was a totally natural result of declaring Neapolitan pizza a world cultural treasure or whatever and exactly why doing so was an incredibly stupid idea. Now every country’s culinary traditions are going to become world cultural treasures because there’s nothing particularly special about Neapolitan pizza as compared to dozens of other recognizable foods. Can’t blame Macron.

[Tirnam]

Marine Le Pen proposes changing National Front party name to National Rally.

[TheSaint250]

Marine Le Pen proposes changing National Front party name to National Rally.

This whole time I thought she was going to make it something completely different

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Meet the new party name...same as the old party name.

[Soonerdem]

What’s even the point of changing the party name if the party itself stays the same? This applies to les republicans as well. Do they think voters are so stupid they will not know that it’s still the same party?

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Actually, FN, was a historically marked brand with all kinds of 'very annoying stuffs' that would annoy most average people, and maybe its current leaders first.

And maybe still more leaders of other parties around them, which prevented a good deal of alliances so far between people that would sometimes be close enough but that wouldn't ally with someone officially branded 'Devil', that's also the openly claimed new tactic of MLP about that, not that it would necessarily work, it's to be seen, but they lost so much since May 2017 that they might think they haven't much more to lose in doing so.

Ah, and, also, good bye daddy.

[TheSaint250]

Will Generation.s and Les Patriotes have any chance of making somewhat of an impact?

[parochial boy]

Will Generation.s and Les Patriotes have any chance of making somewhat of an impact?

At this point, I wouldn't even like to predict where things fall on the left - Melenchon is far too flawed for many leftists, the PS are broken, and Hamon doesn't really seem like the guy who will lead anything anywhere.

You can bet your house that Philippot won't go anywhere. If he gets anywhere near to where Mégret did it will be a miracle

[parochial boy]

So the ongoing mega strike/shutdown in Mayotte is probably worth a metion, as it has lasted all week and brought the island to a standstill (schools closed, barricades set up along the main roads...) and is threatening to disrupt the special legislative election on Sunday.

There has been simmering tension in Mayotte for a while now (as seen in the fact the 95% Muslim islands gave Le Pen 28% of the vote in the first round of the presidential election last year) that is chiefly to do with crime/insecurity and the huge levels of illegal immigration from the Comoros.

About half of the island's population are Comorian immigrants, the vast majority of whom are in an irregular situation. Mayotte is already by far the poorest department in France, and the huge population growth/immigration has been blamed for the high crime rates on the islands, struggling infrastructure and the growing number of people living in informal settlements

A machete attack on a high school last month was the final straw which led to the current mass strike - which has been handled, lets say badly, by Annick Girardin, the minister of overseas territories.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

...and, worth noticing given the preceding discussion, maybe for the first time Marine Le Pen, already testing her new strategy, called to vote for the LR candidate in that coming legislative there.

[Leftbehind]

Hamon doesn't really seem like the guy who will lead anything anywhere.

So he's still alive?

[Tirnam]

Sarkozy is in custody since this morning, questioned by police over claims of an illegal financing of his 2007 campaign by Gaddafi.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Well, tout doit disparaître afterall, well, hopefully...

[Santander]

Witch hunt by dictator Macron.

[MaxQue]

Witch hunt by dictator Macron.

Not really, it's just a new episode the Libya funding scandal. The first arrests and custodies were in March 2015, a time where Macron was Economy Minister.

[Alabama_Indy10]

Witch hunt by dictator Macron.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Sarkozy is in custody since this morning, questioned by police over claims of an illegal financing of his 2007 campaign by Gaddafi.

Lol

[Tirnam]

Sarkozy is indicted for passive corruption, illegal campaign financing and concealment of Libyan public funds.

[augbell]

Will Generation.s and Les Patriotes have any chance of making somewhat of an impact?

At this point, I wouldn't even like to predict where things fall on the left - Melenchon is far too flawed for many leftists, the PS are broken, and Hamon doesn't really seem like the guy who will lead anything anywhere.

You can bet your house that Philippot won't go anywhere. If he gets anywhere near to where Mégret did it will be a miracle

You shouldn't underestimate the PS. They have survived many crises so far, and have a strongest basis than it's usually thaught.
The problem for us (I'll say us since I'm an active member of the PS) is that the next election is the european election, the one where we're the most divided. Génération.s has a clear position, and if Hamon runs at the top of the list, he could have some result. Mélenchon is also clear about Europe (he fights for "Independance"), and En Marche is clearly pro Europe. This will be hard...