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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months

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Welshie said:
It's 2 terms so it's all very similar to the US system

Macron and his party aren't particularly popular, but he had a very easy election last time as the National Rally were still looked at as not a serious political force.

Since then Le Pen has reorganized the entire party, they're a really serious political force now. I think they can quite easily win both this parliamentary election and the presidential in 3 years.
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From what I saw. from reports last night a situation will arise where Pen will have to serve under Macron?

Also there is a chance Von de leyen could step aside as EU President as there is no way based on past comments that she will want to work with the far right in any shape or form, with their increased seats.

Don't understand it all, so will wait and see. I don't mind Macron, would rather work with him, we got enough fooking wars going on, although he has been stirring it a bit of late with Russia, but then again someone needs to put Putin back in his box.

Don't care about Von de leyen, i don't particularly trust her, she was trying to give it the biggun last night, well we will see with the right whether she's just all gob and will step aside, or if her own self interests come into play, like most leaders these days.
 
Treble said:
They are disintegrating like nothing I've seen in British politics in my lifetime. An absolute car crash...

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I think we are witnessing the death of the Conservative party in real time.

And its glorious
 
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brb said:
From what I saw. from reports last night a situation will arise where Pen will have to serve under Macron?

Also there is a chance Von de leyen could step aside as EU President as there is no way based on past comments that she will want to work with the far right in any shape or form, with their increased seats.

Don't understand it all, so will wait and see. I don't mind Macron, would rather work with him, we got enough fooking wars going on, although he has been stirring it a bit of late with Russia, but then again someone needs to put Putin back in his box.

Don't care about Von de leyen, i don't particularly trust her, she was trying to give it the biggun last night, well we will see with the right whether she's just all gob and will step aside, or if her own self interests come into play, like most leaders these days.
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Macrons alright, he's been a bit of a wet lettuce, but he's stable.

France is a nation facing a tremendous amount of problems not just at home but abroad too.

So they need stability really
 
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Welshie said:
Macrons alright, he's been a bit of a wet lettuce, but he's stable.

France is a nation facing a tremendous amount of problems not just at home but abroad too.

So they need stability really
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Yeah I was listening to the paper reviews last night and it was said that Macron has positioned himself more as a world leader than a domestic leader, and I would tend to agree with that view. I just saw it that after Merkel stepped down, someone needed to step up. More than noticeable at the D-Day commemorations Macron alongside Biden, while our leader embarrassed us all.
 
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brb said:
Yeah I was listening to the paper reviews last night and it was said that Macron has positioned himself more as a world leader than a domestic leader, and I would tend to agree with that view. I just saw it that after Merkel stepped down, someone needed to step up. More than noticeable at the D-Day commemorations Macron alongside Biden, while our leader embarrassed us all.
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People forget a massive thing with France and its situation stems from how different we ended our empires.

France has a larger military than the UK primarily because it continues to have active troops in some parts of Africa. They put a tremendous amount of their international power on these holdings and they're all slowly breaking off.

The recent issues with that island, Macron himself having to travel there in person, just sums up the countless problems that nation faces.

While the UK is toodling along with an incompetent government, France is fighting a storm with a generally competent one and coming off worse.

It's why Macron has suddenly emerged as a major advocate for standing against Russia. French and Russian troops are facing off in Africa.
 
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Archers Road said:
Good point.

However, my Mrs is French, I was there recently, and I hear about this **** all the time. This is a country which decapitated it’s entire aristocracy in the 19th Century; they don’t think like us, but they will never lean majority fascist. They’re not Germany or Italy, in fact they distrust Germans and Italians far more than they distrust us Brits. It’s true they are ****ing angry right now, but when were they ever not?

Ps I like the French.
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18th <whistle>
 
Sucky said:
I think we are witnessing the death of the Conservative party in real time.

And its glorious
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Much as I'd like that, I don't think so mate.

They're like the floating turd of politics. No matter how much you flush some remnant of those fckers will re-emerge.
 
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Bwood_Ranger said:
Read a Reform candidate said we should have stayed neutral in WWII. Another perfectly normal day in this election.
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The Reform response was even better. Something like, it was what everyone thought at the time.

Someone should let them know it's not the 1930's anymore. Or Nazi Germany.
 
Bwood_Ranger said:
Read a Reform candidate said we should have stayed neutral in WWII. Another perfectly normal day in this election.
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Quote from the same candidate

Ian Gribbin, who is standing in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care”.
 
Treble said:
The Reform response was even better. Something like, it was what everyone thought at the time.

Someone should let them know it's not the 1930's anymore. Or Nazi Germany.
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I guess he didn’t say we should have joined forces with Hitler so it’s a win of sorts.
 
PINKIE said:
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Ian Gribbin, who is standing in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care”.
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Ooh that’s not far from me. Proper old fud Tory land. Bloke will probably win.
 
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