arenât a patch on us Cc Tonys sweetheart deal
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He wasnt overly nice to the unvaccinated French was he?
I certainly didnât like some of the language that he used a few months back.
They said that about Brexit
In France people usually tend to vote against a candidate rather than for one. Macron needs to play the Putinist card against her non stop.
At this rate the Champions League final might need to be taken off Paris.
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You would hope that minds will be concentrated ahead of the run off. They need to be.
But you look at the four candidates running behind Macron in the polls and you would not trust anybody who gives a first round vote to any of them.
Le Penâs votes obviously will stay with her.
Zemmourâs will go to Le Pen.
A good proportion of Pecresseâs will go to Le Pen, at least 50% Iâd say.
And a decent whack of Melenchonâs votes will go to Le Pen too. And he himself will weasel word his way through the two weeks.
The collapse of the Socialist Party in France has been a disastrous development.
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You think Le Pen has a good chance of winning?
Itâs nothing to do with what I think. The polls say she stands a good chance of winning.
Le Pen winning in France would probably be a bigger hammer blow than Brexit, not just to the EU but to the entire western order and to anybody who believes in any sort of basic humanity and non-fascist politics.
If she wins, she will likely not be got out easily in the future. You see what happens with Orban and you see what has happened in the US. The fascists hijack the media and information eco-system to turn nations into good little fascists, or enough of them to rot nations from the inside.
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Exit poll:
Macron 28.1%
Le Pen 23.3%
Melenchon 20.1%
Zemmour 7.2%
Pecresse 5.0%
Slightly more positive with a view to Macron beating Le Pen in Round 2 than I would have expected - if the exit poll bears out.
The republican and the green said their voters should vote for Macron. Mellonchon in his speech said that none of his votes should go to Le Pen.
The French seem to be getting closer and closer to electing an extremist. The only thing saving them is they canât decide which kind of extremist they want.
Between the far right and far left, Le Pen, Melenchon, Zemmour and a couple of other down the ticket candidates including communists and a few more. More than 50% of people voted for one of the extremes.
I was looking through the small print of the polling last week and the most worrying thing is that the only age group Macron leads Le Pen in is the over 55s, Le Pen is stronger the younger the age group.
She seems very good at hoovering up the people who do their own research on the INTERNET, the French equivalents of @Thomas_Brady.
People âwho just ask questionsâ
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Also known as âJAQing offâ.
Macron is blessed he is up against her as he will pick up a lot of âhold your nose and vote for himâ types.
He has no character at all. He stands for nothing.
He trades on it like itâs a virtue
I would not disagree. I think he has made a fool of himself playing at statesman with Putin.
His only saving grace is he is âNot Le Penâ.
Iâve increasingly come to view Melenchonâs emergence as a disastrous development. It boggles the mind how the Socialist Party candidate - who is the Mayor of Paris - can only garner 1.7%.
The Iraq War and the financial crisis unleashed forces which are now increasingly spinning out of control as gobshites shout their way to success through sloganeering.
Macron didnât bother his arse campaigning until the last week or so. Canât take the masses for granted
Heâs been very busy talking to Putin.
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Macron 10-13.5 points clear on todays tracker polls stick a fork in LePen, gap has been widening since the weekend.
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