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Spectacular result if true:– Left-wing "New Popular Front" in 1st– Macronists in second– National Rally in third https://t.co/CXJ4LPTujI
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In France they can sustain an election for an entire week.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/01/nigel-farage-reform-uk-le-pen-right-party-disaser-france/
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/07/07/2024-french-election-results-chart-and-map-of-second-round-winners_6676976_8.html
(eg ARPA-e programs.)
The US similarly has some of the largest known reserves of various minerals, which remain unexploited.
And the growing friction with China - and strategic vulnerability in regard to imports - is getting them more interested in doing something about it.
The only 2 things they have in common is they don't like Le Pen. And they don't like Macron either.
Meanwhile. All the other Parties in the bloc don't want Melenchon as PM.
It's quite astonishing they held together this far.
Maybe Francois Hollande as PM isn't a bad shout.
If any you have any guest pieces you wish to submit, send me a Vanilla message.
Didn't get much work done last week either, so am now under pressure too.
[FPT because important]
"The NPF, presenting its policies on Friday, said its top priority if elected would be the cost of living crisis, which was “harming the lives and confidence of the French people”. It pledged to cap the price of essential foods, as well as electricity, gas and petrol.
The parties also said they would immediately reverse the unpopular pension changes pushed through last year by Macron’s government and return the French retirement age to 60, as well as overturning a more recent change to unemployment benefits and introducing a wealth tax.
They said France’s minimum wage and pension would be raised, while the NPF would also demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, recognise the state of Palestine, continue supplying necessary arms to Ukraine and legislate for carbon neutrality by 2050."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/14/french-leftwing-parties-popular-front-contest-snap-election
So, sounds like good news for Ukraine.
Indeed I suspect such a manifesto would have done well here last week.
Vive La France!
The revival of the thought to be deceased Parti Socialiste is the story of this election.
They'll be back up with LR in terms of representation.
What is the best file format to put a few images and graphs in.
RTF omits the pictures
But yes I don’t have much cheer for these results. Hung Parliament will make it very hard to form a stable and sensible government and that has to give advantage to MLP in 2027.
This is heading towards being one of the best political weeks of my long life.
Promising lots of nice things to people for some reason tends to be quite popular.
The small snag, in this place called the real world, is paying for it.
Ouch
Some manifestos are designed to be put into practice.
The problem arises when those designed to get votes have to be put into practice.
France is giving a display of the benefits of 2-round voting. Gives anti fascists time to regroup, and organize tactical voting. Very impressive.
https://x.com/EdwardGLuce/status/1810013462543659156
Only the French have given me electoral joy this week.
FFS, I've had to rely on the French!
Definitely more than anything happening on this side of the Atlantic OR the Pacific.
Where we're waiting for decision by the Decider-in-Chief = Dr. Jill Biden.
Meanwhile are Allianz trying to deter 52% of motorists from going with them?
Every other party could get away with irresponsible promises, but not Labour.
Apparently those mean people deprived them of their rightful place in winning the election .
There's a majority for financially unsound in France.
I certainly got French colleagues expressing envy at the UK developments on Friday.
A tiny number? Maybe.
I think that she is correct to apply "idiot" to the method not the ideology. The behaviour she describes has certain similarities with eg drive-by-abusers on twitter or blog commenters; it's about assertion and abuse and not being capable or interested of engaging in a conversation.
I think that were Yaxley-Lennon doing that, she would call him an idiot.
On Muslims, there's a vast diversity of movements, eg quietists who want to be left alone with their society, like in Christian terms the Amish or in Jewish terms certain Orthodox groups.
Throughout my adulthood I have met and discussed with some Muslims who obey the law of the land, yet also look to see an Islamic State / Caliphate be created, or a Islamic Republic modelled on Iran - a Muslim Majority changes the belief about how it should be run. It's peaceful, but uncompromising.
There are movements around linked to the Muslim Brotherhood (an Egyptian Movement from the 1st half of 20C which has an intellectual base but also merges into violence).
If you look for roots of Islamist thought in this country, one source is that Mosques were heavily funded, and Imams sent in or trained, by Middle Eastern countries, in the 1970s. And by Iran in competition with Saudi Arabia etc from the 1980s. That's wrapped up in Sunni-Shia religious competition, and in Arab-Persian nationalist competition. We have problems when these type of institutions gain prominence and thought-leadership.
The Ahmadis have their world headquarters here (Watford) because General Zia Ul-Haq expelled them from Pakistan in ~1984 by declaring in law & constitution that they cannot call themseles Muslims subject to a prison sentence; in Pakistan that is open season. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation takes a similar stance.
In Islam there is also a very great sense of internationalism around the concept of Ummah, the worldwide community, which is far more tangible than say similar concepts in Christianity, and also around the Hajj.
I think that she is correct to apply "idiot" to the method not the ideology. The behaviour she describes has certain similarities with eg drive-by-abusers on twitter or blog commenters; it's about assertion and abuse and not being capable or interested of engaging in a conversation.
I think that were Yaxley-Lennon doing that, she would call him an idiot.
On Muslims, there's a vast diversity of movements, eg quietists who want to be left alone with their society, like in Christian terms the Amish or in Jewish terms certain Orthodox groups.
Throughout my adulthood I have met and discussed with some Muslims who obey the law of the land, yet also look to see an Islamic State / Caliphate be created, or a Islamic Republic modelled on Iran - a Muslim Majority changes the belief about how it should be run. It's peaceful, but uncompromising.
There are movements around linked to the Muslim Brotherhood (an Egyptian Movement from the 1st half of 20C which has an intellectual base but also merges into violence).
If you look for roots of Islamist thought in this country, one source is that Mosques were heavily funded, and Imams sent in or trained, by Middle Eastern countries, in the 1970s. And by Iran in competition with Saudi Arabia etc from the 1980s. That's wrapped up in Sunni-Shia religious competition, and in Arab-Persian nationalist competition. We have problems when these type of institutions gain prominence and thought-leadership.
The Ahmadis have their world headquarters here (Watford) because General Zia Ul-Haq expelled them from Pakistan in ~1984 by declaring in law & constitution that they cannot call themseles Muslims subject to a prison sentence; in Pakistan that is open season. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation takes a similar stance.
In Islam there is also a very great sense of internationalism around the concept of Ummah, the worldwide community, which is far more tangible than say similar concepts in Christianity, and also around the Hajj.
As I’ve repeatedly pointed out, the Far Right always flatter to deceive in France.
What a brilliant 7 days for the western world. Now let’s hope November isn’t the catastrophe we (sane people) fear.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Chers voisins, je suis fier de vous.
Snowflakes perhaps should find a convenient walk-in cooler to mitigate the melting?
Mosquitoes have gathered from across the world - India, Malaysia, Egypt, Senegal, famous veterans from Brazil, huge mosquitoes like condors from Indonesia, they’re all here and tonight’s the traditional Bite a Brit opening ceremony