It is interesting to see that thwarting what the majority of the French people wanted is "democracy" while accepting what the majority of people wanted in Hungary is "dictatorship." European "values" got devaluated quite fast I must admit.
@on2thenextthingАй бұрын
Well said. Things are not always what they seem, especially when it comes to listening to the media.
@onepartyrouleАй бұрын
The majority didn’t vote for them.
@Sphere723Ай бұрын
The majority of French voters chose parties that explicity refuse to form a coalition with RF.
@goofygrandlouis6296Ай бұрын
Also, shouldn't the English fix their *own* country ? Seems like a Labour landslide is way - WAY -worse, than a hung Assembly with at least one third of people who care about their country.
@johncrichton8876Ай бұрын
How is your it thwarting the majority if more people are voted for other parties? As an American, where literally there isn't a 1 to 1 vote, and the Republicans have one the popular vote 1 time in the last maybe 6 or 7 elections I'm confused by this sentiment.
@WalkerKlondykeАй бұрын
How pathetic, that the French must have their budget approved by European bureaucrats. All of Europe is a disgrace. It disgusts me that the world sent so many men to die to save Europe from Hitler, and the Europeans have so deeply disrespected that sacrifice.
@jp5419Ай бұрын
Great point.
@aesma2522Ай бұрын
Well we share the same currency so we can't have crazy deficits paid by the others, that's fairly logical.
@WalkerKlondykeАй бұрын
@@aesma2522 Fucking loser. I'm gonna have to get all my guns out of the safe just to forget about your stupid comment.
@willpine7343Ай бұрын
I think you mean they fought for the wrong side
@livingintheforest3963Ай бұрын
Yep
@IdontwannahandleАй бұрын
This guy is great. He should be on more American shows. Thank you Unherd.
@StoddardianАй бұрын
No, RN got the most votes. They just came in third because of parliamentary shenanigans. The RN will only keep growing.
@LikeawormАй бұрын
They’re acting like this was polling miscalculation 😂 The policy’s pursed by Macron and the left are what made this right wing undercut. If they keep pursuing these policy’s they’ll create a monster. The Jihadist and Communist had to team up to defeat Le Pen. That’s an unholy alliance that won’t last long 😂
@LeonWaggАй бұрын
If you combine the votes for the centrist and the left, they are more than what RN got. So it's clear that the French did, in fact, reject the “far right.”
@kereyhaire6910Ай бұрын
How many votes did they get? Like 15 million votes?
@vranckenmatthew8794Ай бұрын
Correct. They are also the largest party in parliament.
@LeonWaggАй бұрын
@@Stoddardian the combined votes for the left and centrist are more than what RN got. So the far right did lose.
@DarkLord-iz7vkАй бұрын
The French Flag at Rassemblement National rallies, the European Union Flag at Macron's rallies and the Palestinian flag at the left's rallies.
@alexander5207Ай бұрын
This is exactly it. Thank you.
@channel1_channelАй бұрын
Macron is leftist. The EU is leftist.
@kelkroteАй бұрын
I’m French and I must say you hit the nail on the head! It is so telling, isn’t it? Show me your flag and I’ll tell you who you are….
@lynnevenables7193Ай бұрын
Why is a flag so important to you lot!
@mr.mystery9338Ай бұрын
@@lynnevenables7193 you have to be kidding, right? Its france. Of course the french flag must be the most important.
@gontrandjojo9747Ай бұрын
37% of people voted for National Rally... by far in first position in popular vote... yet they are 3rd in seats. On the other hand the left got 25% of the vote and get the most seats... "Populism" has not been twarted. The voice of the people has been twarted. And it will give more strenght to "populism" in the long run.
@bryan81584Ай бұрын
All you need to know. That chart shows a "far-right" alliance whatever the hell that is. While the "n3w popular front" comprised of communists isnt labeled "far left"
@markhutton6055Ай бұрын
The conservative party lost in the UK because they have shifted left. They should more correctly be called Labour Lite. People have not shofted to the Faaar Right, they have stayed where they were while the partiies shfted left.
@StephenSeabirdАй бұрын
Can you qualify that? The Party of George Osborne's austerity, Jacob Rees-Mogg's ans Liz Truss's planned further deregulation of The City and financial district. That is 'Left'?
@kereyhaire6910Ай бұрын
Surely le pens movement is only going to grow bigger and bigger, it's inevitable
@BurrburrcloudАй бұрын
Clearly there are more French people that are left leaning then right leaning....
@noobsaibot5285Ай бұрын
depends on the (illegal) immigration rate and if illegals are able to vote
@bhuddy1832Ай бұрын
So many folks seem to swallow so much of Putin's propaganda.... LMAO...
@robertlynch9678Ай бұрын
I mean they got 4.3% of the vote share in 2007, 18% in 2022, and 37% in 2024 so history shows us they’re on an upward trajectory.
@StoddardianАй бұрын
@@Burrburrcloud That's not true.
@sandipmistry5218Ай бұрын
Fantastic interview so insightful! Louis is great spot on !
@Bruno-tm3xoАй бұрын
Every time this guy is interviewed it is always full of common sense
@bhuddy1832Ай бұрын
Do all of Putin's bots feel that way?
@jean-louismorgenthaler4725Ай бұрын
To my opinion, it is fake common sense and full vested interest. Mind the trap!
@Bruno-tm3xoАй бұрын
@@bhuddy1832 what does Putin have anything to do with this. If anything, this election proved one point, Russia involvement…..if there was any……just didn’t work. France is just a mess, has been for over 40 years……a s…t hole if you will
@cnam1258Ай бұрын
He is brilliant.
@jean-louismorgenthaler4725Ай бұрын
@@cnam1258 yep. Like a lure. Voters are easily fished wish flashy lures. 😟
@janpetersen7440Ай бұрын
France is in a little more chaos today than yesterday - nothing new in that.
@Bruno-tm3xoАй бұрын
France IS chaos…..a shit of a place
@R_V_Ай бұрын
As a journalist said, "Macron is the Architect of Chaos".
@VonKirdaАй бұрын
Not so. After the EU elections, now Macron successfully slammed the door in the face of Le Pen. A masterstroke.
@yoursoulisforeverАй бұрын
"And lest we allow those who hate us to define us - let all know - it is not out of hate and bigotry, but out of love and loyalty that we shout: WE ARE A PEOPLE!”
@LivinginlanguageАй бұрын
Where is that from, please?
@jeanmalone1323Ай бұрын
We all voting against WEF
@Glenda-px4weАй бұрын
As an Irish woman I'm sick of this Europeans need to revolt against this nonsense.
@chrimbus71Ай бұрын
Ireland, will not be alllowed to leave the EU..ever. You are so deeply owned by brussels
@zealmediaproductions844Ай бұрын
you mean a civil war ?
@galinor7Ай бұрын
The EU works like a country. Ireland functions like a semi independent state with limited home rule.
@johnmurray8454Ай бұрын
By populism do you mean the will of the people?
@advocate1563Ай бұрын
J'adore Louis vincent. He is saying exactly what Vernon Bognador said in Saturday's DT. The UK is turning French.
@christophercooper2208Ай бұрын
The French Revolution was in 1789. Did we follow them then ? Was there an English revolution?
@jeanpaulfelix4095Ай бұрын
"The system is rigged so that the peasants have no power". Count of St Germain.
@gontrandjojo9747Ай бұрын
Yes that's the point. And the left voters are all concentrated in urban areas so they can regroup and riot. Electors of the National Rally are all dispersed in the countryside so they are not heard.
@freshdonkey1760Ай бұрын
I weep for France, such a beautiful country with rich history going down the drain.
@gloriathomas3245Ай бұрын
The French reject a party with ties to racism and fascism. That's good enough even though I'm not a fan of the far-left.
@Bruno-tm3xoАй бұрын
What beats me is that this French guy tells it exactly as it is and in a very articulate way while morons on French news channel are in total denial of the reality……or rather to scared to voice it…….or ordered by their boss to shut up. I am much better off reading the foreign press when it comes to France or watch UnHerd and listen to Mr Gave. Trust me, what he is describing is the French reality…..no gilding the lily here
@l.w.paradis2108Ай бұрын
All of the French sources I'm listening to are not holding back one bit. I don't know what you're listening to.
@cablenewsfanatic5634Ай бұрын
Sounds like America
@Sars1-k6fАй бұрын
@@l.w.paradis2108what are you listening to/reading/watching?
@l.w.paradis2108Ай бұрын
@@Sars1-k6f All of their shows with anchors who are pro-Macron and grill LFI leadership, which describes pretty much their entire MSM.
@annbennett5312Ай бұрын
@@Sars1-k6fI'm interested in that as well.
@d.beaumont9157Ай бұрын
We live under a thin veneer of civilisation. The veneer is getting thinner by the day.
@zilefn9212Ай бұрын
This is a terrific podcast. UnHerd is increasingly one of my go-to channels to help make sense of complex political events.
@superdeluxesmellАй бұрын
Populism is such a lazy and inadequate word.
@simonestreeter1518Ай бұрын
And hateful and fearmongering.
@user-rn1ws5id8hАй бұрын
All isms are lazy and inadequate.
@anthonybrettАй бұрын
If there's one thing the far left are good at, it's coining a term.
@meisievannancyАй бұрын
Well the left use it when they are losing. The left also use the term "far right" when a party not as left of themselves is winning.
@pistonburner6448Ай бұрын
Especially as the ones using it are the real populists...or fascists.
@BritishNaturalist-vb8hjАй бұрын
Meanwhile like in this country spending on immigration keeps on rising & rising & services have to be cut as a consequence.This "Green & pleasant land" is concreted over in order to house them all & we are supposed to be blithly indifferent to it all?
@dpstrialАй бұрын
Sad to say, the vast majority of voters, the normies, are indifferent to it all. Many Conservative supporters chose to abstain rather than vote for Reform. I see little hope for the UK.
@BritishNaturalist-vb8hjАй бұрын
@@dpstrial youtube deleted my reply to you.Clearly they are shit scared about letting ordinary people speak.
@BritishNaturalist-vb8hjАй бұрын
youtube censorship clearly marks them out as the enemy.
@ericdelfАй бұрын
@@dpstrial It will kick off.
@alfredrutz7830Ай бұрын
@@BritishNaturalist-vb8hj They definitely are !!!
@terencefield3204Ай бұрын
Violence and chaos is just under the surface in nearly all European countries, including Britain as well as France. The present deconstruction of France in Parliament can happen in Britain if a rerun of 1945 Labour proves to be a failure, which it may well do.
@stephendouglas4870Ай бұрын
'A rerun of a 1945 Labour'? What semblance does Keir Starmer's Labour have with Clement Attlee's? See plans for the NHS. If anything, the two Labour governments are in stark contrast.
@StephenSeabirdАй бұрын
What semblance is there between Clement Attlee's Labour and Keir Starmer's? Not much, as far as I can see.
@serenapimentel7372Ай бұрын
Denial of reality @@StephenSeabird
@terencefield3204Ай бұрын
@@StephenSeabird Thank God if that is the case, the 45 government was communism light, and not very light. It ruined Britain and it never recovered, nor now can it.
@nickgood8166Ай бұрын
Orders of magnitude better than mainstream broadcasting.
@antonyliberopoulos933Ай бұрын
Thank you Flo and Louis-Vincent for giving us the full picture of the current political landscape in France.
@somerandomvertebrate9262Ай бұрын
Has "populism" been thwarted? Oh, you mean the will of the people? Yes, it has been thwarted.
@1848revoltАй бұрын
Has it been? So you only think there is right wing populism. That's even in question. Right wing populists want what business wants. Not what people want.
@PinkdamАй бұрын
If the 'will of the people' merely finds expression in who holds parliamentary seats, it was never up to much. On the other hand, RN has as its supporters the largest share of population, more than any other party: this could be used every day of the year to advance their cause, not on voting days. This momentum needs to be harnessed.
@somerandomvertebrate9262Ай бұрын
@@1848revolt Right-wing populists mainly want migration stopped and reversed. They want freedom of speech, a Rechtstaat instead of a totalitarian tyranny of "values" and sovereignty back to the nation state. Nothing to do with business.
@ericdelfАй бұрын
It's not going to go away.
@angryaholeАй бұрын
@@1848revoltthe growing right wing wants France to be France again. The more diversity the more right leaning people become. Its happening all over the west
@jez49647Ай бұрын
I'd dispute the claim that we've really 'split the right' in the UK. There hasn't been a right in the UK for a long time. At some point you just have to replace a party that's no longer fit for purpose and take the consequences as they come.
@skillfuldabestАй бұрын
As the saying goes: Vote Labour - have the third world as your neighbour, vote Tory, same story.
@774RobАй бұрын
I think more in terms of globalist/nationalist today.
@steeltrap3800Ай бұрын
Best assessment yet that I've seen of the French election results. A pretty clinical assessment of the various characteristics of French politics and the potential issues of dealing with the EU. No dramatics, no evident/obvious bias. Wish there was more of it to be found.
@clarkkent4683Ай бұрын
The eu needs dissolving.
@danesovic7585Ай бұрын
No, the UK does.
@nigelhard1519Ай бұрын
Why?
@ChristineRead-ck1uqАй бұрын
@@danesovic7585 Why's that? Can't stand that the British have been one of the most successful nations ever in the world?
@corriemooney9812Ай бұрын
@@nigelhard1519A very large power centre with essentially no democratic accountability, opaque processes and detachment from reality?
@danesovic7585Ай бұрын
@@ChristineRead-ck1uq I don't care about about Britain, but the EU is our home. Stop asking us to dissolve it.
@stevemartin7464Ай бұрын
My God France is in trouble right now, real trouble.How could they possibly have voted like this?
@markbardner8214Ай бұрын
The UK right was incompetent
@johnsouth3912Ай бұрын
Disagree. It was intentional.😊
@robertlynch9678Ай бұрын
The Tories are not Right-wing in the least
@evolassunglasses4673Ай бұрын
Torys are the political wing of international finance capitalism.
@jonathanritchie5273Ай бұрын
@robertlynch9678 Their voters are though.
@774RobАй бұрын
The actual UK right, if such a thing still exists, went from a standing start to the third most popular party in the UK in a month. It had by far the best social media strategy which saw it gain three times the amount of exposure as Labour managed for 1/67th of the cost, and it destroyed possibly the most successful political party in Western history. I can't wait to see what they can do when they are organised.
@katelane8016Ай бұрын
From Canada: Thanks for an intelligent, informative conversation about what's going on in France. Really enjoyed your guest's ability to express his views knowledgeably, free of distracting emotion, and full of confidently expressed, realistic and common sense views. Refreshing.
@tulimike1Ай бұрын
choices are spend more, spend a lot more, spend a way lot more.
@dixonpinfold2582Ай бұрын
The RN got over 1.3x the number of votes that the left alliance did. On Sunday it more than doubled the margin over the left alliance it had the 1st round. Left-leaning media: "Voters came together en masse to avoid the horror of a conservative government! Historic! Heroic!"
@PinkdamАй бұрын
The trick is that the 'voters' they care about aren't the people but the parliamentarians - the real 'demos' in their 'democracy'.
@avengemybreath3084Ай бұрын
Seems like a last gasp of the French people before they accede to diminish and fade into the West - like the elves in Tolkien.
@paul-andregravelleАй бұрын
Most interesting analysis. Looking forward to hearing more from this man.
@rigilchristАй бұрын
Flo, we DO have a philosophical left in the UK, which controls all our institutions: Academia, Police, Civil Service and NHS. It is not coming from a political party, it comes from indoctrination of University graduates in extreme-leftist Marxist ideologies of CRT and Identity politics. Ironically, though these arrived at our shores via America, their origin was French Intellectuals, such as Foucault and Derrida. As others have observed, the fault is not with the foolish young ideologues - it is with the adults who paid attention to them...
@user-vm8kd1lh7vАй бұрын
Check out the Frankfurt School,usual suspects in there.
@michelegosse7116Ай бұрын
you should listen to CanadianPatriot press/M. Ehret
@l.w.paradis2108Ай бұрын
Well, that isn't as ridiculous as the prevailing story in the US.
@774RobАй бұрын
@@l.w.paradis2108 It's fundamentally true. The Frankfurt School moving to Columbia was the catalyst and it was done because 70's French Marxists could see that Communism had failed in the West, mainly due to the working class failing to rise up. Interestingly it's the working class who are the modern enemy and minorities have become the lionised victims of their bigotry and hatred.
@rivgacooper5330Ай бұрын
@@rigilchrist So you admit then all the highly educated people are left wing.
@oliveoil7642Ай бұрын
All Western countries are running massive deficits and irresponsible fiscal policies. Coincidence or strategic planning?🤔
@alfredrutz7830Ай бұрын
It's absolute strategic planning by the likes of Schwab, Soros, Gates etc.
@gerberjoanne266Ай бұрын
The pollsters couldn't have known that the small left and far-left parties would join forces at the last minute. They don't have crystal balls.
@ChristineRead-ck1uqАй бұрын
No, but I bet Macron did...
@neil5872Ай бұрын
rishi didnt count on reform either, it seems, some election result similarities, perhaps.
@evolassunglasses4673Ай бұрын
And the centre Right Republicans. Capitalism and Socialism working together to stop Nationalism.
@yuriarlequimАй бұрын
No crystal balls and also the 20th century did not happen.
@benoitchamplon7149Ай бұрын
Problem isn't the pollsters, they gave an acurate previsions of the number of votes. The main problem is the seat projection, which is bullshit since it tries to implies 577 local results from 1 national statistic sample.
@ansc6472Ай бұрын
The Islamic republic of France ☪️
@BellBeakerBlokeАй бұрын
The problem isn’t religion; it’s race. Even if the migrants were Christian, if they’re African, they’re African. And France won’t be France.
@MaxPayne-fi1mz4 күн бұрын
Atleast battle of Tours would have resulted in native muslim dynasty 😂
@ianjones1760Ай бұрын
Great Guest
@simonestreeter1518Ай бұрын
I'm sorry what? Since when is France unable to decide on their own budget? That is where the source of real independence lies. Vive la liberté, hein?
@rodneyfungus8249Ай бұрын
Since they adopted the Euro. There is one currency, one central bank so other Euro members will not be happy if one member runs a huge deficit.
@simonestreeter1518Ай бұрын
@@rodneyfungus8249 Oh, that makes sense, thank you for the explanation!
@ericberg2131Ай бұрын
Funny reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian.
@jesseterrell2109Ай бұрын
All I know is I didn’t see any French flags only flags from other countries
@HKCool-hj4bsАй бұрын
Love Louis Vincent Gave
@daheikkinenАй бұрын
End socialism forever
@1848revoltАй бұрын
If you knew what socialism and capitalism in fact were. But you don't know.
@mcgilcolАй бұрын
The guest is wrong an one thing -- the EU most certainly does NOT treat its constituent nations equally! The big nations like France and Germany get carrots, while the little ones get sticks (Hungary, Greece, Portugal, Ireland)
@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304Ай бұрын
You mean subsidies. Hungary, Greece, Portugal, and Ireland all get large subsidies, not sticks.
@warnaohАй бұрын
Its a joke right ?
@chrimbus71Ай бұрын
Or putting it another way, the french snd germans write the rules, the minnows follow or their money is witheld.
@yuriarlequimАй бұрын
@@chrimbus71the small nations get paid to be ruled by a foreign bureaucracy but for their own good and with European Values
@jakubsevcik1392Ай бұрын
These nations agreed to it. We wanted the money from France and Germany in exchange for giving up a little bit of sovereignty. And I'm crazy grateful for it because us (Slovaks) would live under dictatorship like Belarus at this moment without overlook of the EU.
@garypowell1540Ай бұрын
Governments seem to be able to kick problems down the road a lot longer than the average taxpayer can or would wish to. One could be forgiven for thinking that they have a war or something worse lined up for the time when they can kick it no further.
@willpine7343Ай бұрын
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep fighting over what's for lunch it's cringe
@Toini01Ай бұрын
I think populism relates more to the far left alliance that promises 1600€ net minimum wage, retirement at 60, higher aid for immigrants, etc.
@luisantos1996Ай бұрын
All politics are populists i believe
@user-jd2fe1pu4wАй бұрын
Excellent analysis and commentary, informed and informative; insightful.
@AndyJarmanАй бұрын
It's the bloody Hunger Games!
@gnoelalexmayАй бұрын
I don't know if western "democracy" can withstand any more "saving democracy" 😂
@ozacharАй бұрын
France counting on the rest of Europe to pay for it? Is this a joke, or the end of the EU?
@AaranMoonlightАй бұрын
Nice Life of Brian reference!
@redmond1913Ай бұрын
Great interview
@barr5173Ай бұрын
Good program.
@orion777benАй бұрын
What an insightful presentation! I now feel slightly more optimistic for my French friends.
@Bruno-tm3xoАй бұрын
Optimistic? Are you drunk ?
@skillfuldabestАй бұрын
@@Bruno-tm3xooptimistic in the fact that the right wing will do better next election
@Bruno-tm3xoАй бұрын
@@skillfuldabest French voters are fickle. Had Macron organised a referendum on immigration and applied danish like policies, the RN would be on life support as we speak. This is exactly what happened in Danemark where they are blessed not being saddled with a basket case like Melenchon and his cronies.
@muminkahveci7524Ай бұрын
Very good presenter
@yalmahond2813Ай бұрын
Freedom for the nations of Europe
@tomfuzer9885Ай бұрын
Shocking to hear that even one of top dogs of Europe is so much controlled by Brussels. In the hindsight much less surprising to see what has happened to Poland and Hungary
@pauldavis3460Ай бұрын
Has populism or democracy been thwarted? 37% of the vote and the largest party. That’s not a great scenario for democracy.
@onepartyrouleАй бұрын
Eh? How has democracy been thwarted?
@hasanabduqayumovАй бұрын
@@onepartyroule because RN has got the most percentage of votes that a single party received, yet it is power is limited
@luisantos1996Ай бұрын
Simply Macron made a dirty play, basically he sacrificed his party representation and gave it to the far left.
@onepartyrouleАй бұрын
@@hasanabduqayumov Which is not at odds with democracy. Maybe you don't know what democracy means?
@henrytep8884Ай бұрын
@@hasanabduqayumovthere’s two categories that are important then, one is a plurality of vote and the other is the ratio of the vote. Just because someone has the largest percentage of vote does not give them majority of power, that’s not how democracy works. Get the plurality of vote, which is literally how democracy works.
@briancoulter4308Ай бұрын
A+ for the Monty Python reference.
@johnpurcell7525Ай бұрын
Yeah the right fell short always will in France French Addicted to Idea of a Free Lunch
@marianmoses9604Ай бұрын
The migrant invaders will soon EAT their lunch!
@michaelweber5702Ай бұрын
The interviewed says something that is the reverse and the interviewer does not correct . ( An example : him saying the right when he meant the left , yet she doesn't correct ! This is done a lot in all countries with no corrections . )
@williammkyddeАй бұрын
4:15 No, in Britain it is not bc the right is divided. Tories and Reform combined still don't make up a majority. In Britain, the sheep preferred the familiar slavery to unfamiliar freedom.
@AllanHinde-mb2prАй бұрын
The Tory and reform didn’t unite at all, what are you talking about
@williammkyddeАй бұрын
@@AllanHinde-mb2pr Did I say "united"? I said "combined". I.e., if we add up all tory seats and all reform seats, labour still has more than the right do. So, divided or not divided, the right lost. Division has nothing to do with this defeat.
@asnowman8094Ай бұрын
@@williammkydde You've combined the seats won... Popular vote (votes received by party) Labour 9.6 million. Conservative 6.7 million. Reform 4 million. I believe the turnout was around 60% Labour have received votes from around 20% of the electorate to achieve their landslide election result. Losing over 500,000 votes from their 2019 election result with a larger electorate to draw from...
@DantianblueАй бұрын
Unfamiliar freedom? No. They preferred having adults in charge rather than an extended clown show.
@AllanHinde-mb2prАй бұрын
@@williammkydde division of people, division of ideas, division of belief (okay I’m nitpicking)
@Tubekonto9Ай бұрын
Great analysis. Thank you!
@prakashpatil5152Ай бұрын
What happened to citizens of France who voted more to anti France people.
@bronwenewens1198Ай бұрын
Excellent analysis
@IngeEvenwelАй бұрын
As always very interesting and bring some perspective to the situation
@NnomaddАй бұрын
Not sure what you mean when you use convenient (useless) labels such as Populism. The people that voted are still there, and the change that they wanted is still real. There is nothing to be thwarted. This is democracy. Time will tell how the current political spectrum in France will evolve.
@nw932Ай бұрын
Do you sincerely believe this?? The largest voting bloc has been totally "thwarted". Good luck with that lol
@tallard666Ай бұрын
It's so tiring that media and "populists" insist on country wide polls in UK and Canada and the USA when total numbers are IRRELEVANT. We have electoral systems that elect regionally. As it SHOULD be!
@maxyogiАй бұрын
Loved this discussion!
@CLCL748Ай бұрын
Excellent analysis! I think your guest is right on and some very tough times are coming for the French Republic. If the EU calls for austerity, France will go through what Greece went through. It will be painful to watch.
@mirianakovachevic748Ай бұрын
Austerity ? At the time of funding Ukraino, and war ? I don't think so😅.
@chrisspeksnijder1717Ай бұрын
Excellent talk
@johndavenport8843Ай бұрын
His analyze was spot on
@carltannehill8307Ай бұрын
Good show. FR and USA in same situation. The aristocracy did not listen to the population. They enriched themselves, now the rest of us have to deal with the mess. I fear for my son and grandchildren. Because they are the ones who will suffer.
@j0n.pАй бұрын
Can someone explain to me in plain English how a country goes from hard right to hard left in less than 2 weeks
@freshdonkey1760Ай бұрын
Political shenanigans
@calzonelover3950Ай бұрын
The various left parties all joined together to make one party to avoid fracturing the vote. So the amount of people voting 'left' didn't really change, it just concentrated the vote to one party. Then the centre and left parties strategically stood down candidates in different constituencies to minimise where centrist and left parties ran against each other. Basically any centrist or left person had once choice of party to vote for, meaning the vote was really right v centre AND left
@j0n.pАй бұрын
@@calzonelover3950 For people always concerned with democracy, that sounds very anti-democratic. Thanks for the explanation.
@R_V_Ай бұрын
@@j0n.p And this kind of shenanigans is also what made the Fourth Republic fall in the 50's.
@nw932Ай бұрын
Simple, 1) they were cheated out of seats, 2) the left teamed up with the far left.
@franklee6746Ай бұрын
Haha, take that population! You've been thwarted again!
@wrathofgrothendieckАй бұрын
Beware of the mob, they don’t think or vote rationally.
@nw932Ай бұрын
Exactly, let's how long this lasts.
@asecmimosas4536Ай бұрын
It doesn't feel like it right now for NR I'm sure, but this is good for them in the long run. I think the chance that NR was going to win the 50% of seats needed to win the majority outright was close to 0. But now the government is in indisputably left-wing hands. When the next 3 years are a disappointing slogfest for France, and I believe they will be, NR will be able to point to the failings of the system and rally for change, instead of having to try to hold together a cobbled coalition with emsemble for the next 3 years and getting the finger pointed at them for the stagnation.
@norseman43211Ай бұрын
Excellent guest and great podcast 👍👍👍
@sophrapsuneАй бұрын
The Euro is toast.
@MichaelHollowayАй бұрын
France has been waffling on going full-on neoliberal - that it has high government spending is a function of that politic - the majority don't want US imported unjust economics; and I would say they France is now in an excellent position to be a part of a global reset away from neoliberalism as it continues to collapse globally.
@MichaelHollowayАй бұрын
A loss for Macron's 'far-centrists' (my brand new term ;)
@mcgilcolАй бұрын
@@MichaelHolloway I call them "radical centrists"
@user-dz7hz9fm9wАй бұрын
Did candidates dropping out of races have any effect on this election outcome?
@jer3887Ай бұрын
What a mess of a country
@thomasandersen1765Ай бұрын
Super interesting, thanks.
@odiedodieukАй бұрын
Great. Now the french can keep the boat people
@SR0-0356Ай бұрын
Thats actually hilariously true!
@Bruno-tm3xoАй бұрын
Nope…….we’ll keep sending them over to you
@odiedodieukАй бұрын
@@Bruno-tm3xo are you racist or something?
@aleaiactaest8354Ай бұрын
Excellent guest. Interesting how he connects the results to the market.
@siuwong4588Ай бұрын
Being as a foreigner (non-European), I am so surprised to hear that France has a large conservative supporters! I always think French are very left leaning and it’s their culture and even life style 😅 I thought they just don’t like so many uncontrolled immigrants (both legal and illegal) and can no longer bear with them particularly those importers islamic terrorists and their toxic mindset and laws and culture.
@ABC-rh7zcАй бұрын
RN is a centrist party, not "far right", and it is the moost popular party and growing fast.
@abagatelleАй бұрын
Very good presentation. Thanks 👍
@marikayamoun1888Ай бұрын
Brilliant talk, thanks!
@sshender377312 күн бұрын
Wow, this was eye opening. Please have this guy on more. Non-partisan and tells it like it is. And extra brownie points for the Monty Python reference.
@johnberesford9906Ай бұрын
Labour are center right so the right did ok in the end
@rodneyfungus8249Ай бұрын
All the signs are that Starmer’s Labour are very left wing
@johnberesford9906Ай бұрын
@@rodneyfungus8249 What signs? Not scraping the two child cap on benefits?
@DanFeldmanAgileProjectManagerАй бұрын
Like many Zionists, the guest confuses Zionism with Judaism. Jewish Voices for Peace, which includes Rabbis as its members, views Zionism as anti-Semitic. A society organized around ethno-religious supremacy (e.g., Israel) violates Jewish principles.
@rodneyfungus8249Ай бұрын
Israel is not organised around ethno-religious supremacy! The 1948 constitution guarantees religious freedom for all and equal social and political rights irrespective of people’s religion.
@DanFeldmanAgileProjectManagerАй бұрын
@@rodneyfungus8249 how do you explain the occupied territories, the apartheid, the actual restriction of free speech aimed at Palestinians, speaking Arabic on campuses, the ethnic cleansing, indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians, and the ‘plausible genocide’?