Saturday 9 April 2022

France Should Learn From Other Right Wing Governments

Something we know from history without doubt is that right wing governments are all sorts of terrible and a favourite saying of mine is that not all right wingers are racist, but all the racists are on the right wing and France has a massive racist bidding to pitch up in the Élysée Palace in the shape of Marine Le Pen.
It was expected that the current French President Emmanuel Macron would win comfortably and carry on ruling the French roost but the latest polls show that his lead has evaporated before Sunday's first round of voting and now stands at 27% with Le Pen closing in on 24% which is within the margin of error.
Blaming his drop on his attention being on the war in Ukraine rather than campaigning for is re-election, Macron is now frantically trying to paint Le Pen as the racist she is, pointing to her links with Russia's Putin and her latest anti-immigration speech where she pledged to ban the headscarf in all public spaces and make it enforceable by law.
The political talking heads are concerned that although Marine Le Pen won't attract many new people to her cause, Macron has lost many of his own supporters and they won't come out to vote which will allow Le Pen to sneak through.
The French voters only have to look across the Channel to see what a right wing government looks like and how they are dragging us down or look across the Atlantic to see how electing a racist into power divides a country so Macron may not be great, but he is easily their least worst option.

No comments: