Newsnight just had an interesting piece about the rise of a rebranded far right party headed by Jordan Bardella. In small forgotten towns, they call it Deep France, thousands attend his rallies. Currently campaigning for the Strasbourg elections, polling gives them 30% of the vote nationally...
Isn’t a nuanced position being somewhere in the middle, individual views on any issue after thinking things through, impossible to pigeonhole.
In contrast to my experience these days of the bulk of the chatterati including here who take predictable left v right positions on every non-football...
6m folk live in these vast sink estates on city fringes, the Banlieue, with 40% to 60% unemployment among the young, the majority have ancestry in Africa and are excluded from French society.
Shirley melting pots for mass rioting.
Our ex-Parisian French neighbour has been telling us this for years. She loathes the widespread racism in France, including from their various police forces. Her overriding point is that millions from ethnic minorities live on huge Carbusier-esque sink estates on the edge of the cities...