Politics

[Rayvin 5168]

Le Pen is, curiously, more pro-State than Macron. That's a weird one actually - totally supports the idea that he's a Neo-liberalist I guess but rather compromises the view that he is centre-left, I would have thought?

[Dr Gloom 21804]

that's exactly what i meant when i said it's going to be close - le pen has a real chance of winning a lot of the traditional working class socialist vote. she's softened the far-right image, while promising to invest in public services and crack down on immigration. she's the protest against the establishent vote - just like brexit here and trump in the US.  

[Rayvin 5168]

Interesting. But you think she's aiming for next time? I don't think the issues will go away so I suppose that's a reasonable strategy for her. World might move on though. Hopefully the left proposes some meaningful solutions that don't involve being insanely far right.

Edited April 24, 2017 by Rayvin

[Dr Gloom 21804]

[Dr Gloom 21804]

Interesting. But you think she's aiming for next time? I don't think the issues will go away so I suppose that's a reasonable strategy for her. World might move on though. Hopefully the left proposes some meaningful solutions that don't involve being insanely far right.

 

i read somewhere that she thinks she has a better chance next time. she has a big chance this time though, no mistake. 

[Rayvin 5168]

That vid is very true tbf.

With the caveat, as ever, that there remains no rational reason for anyone at the bottom to vote Tory. Le Pen and Trump make more sense.

[ewerk 30235]

There Tories summed up in one tweet.

 

[Alex 34810]

Are the hungry ones supposed to eat the fat ones?

[Rayvin 5168]

[adios 717]

[Dr Gloom 21804]

Good op-Ed for all the trump/Le Pen apologists

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/le-pen-far-right-holocaust-revisionist-macron-left?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

Are the hungry ones supposed to eat the fat ones?

[ohhh_yeah 2942]

 

China unveiled the Type 001A.

 

[Rayvin 5168]

Is that the one they've been working on for years? To be brutally honest, Chinese naval power isn't something that could worry the Americans. They lack any real ability to project their power outside of the immediate sphere of influence that they operate within, even with an aircraft carrier.

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

Happy to hear it, it was a monumental waste of taxpayers money engineered by Tory tits Joanna Lumley.

 

 

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/04/28/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-pulls-plug-thomas-heatherwick-garden-bridge-uk-architecture-news/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral

[NJS 4369]

Not just a waste - it fucking stinks. Johnson's deputy awarded the contract to Arup and now works for them. Everybody involved were friends and the fop-haired cunt refused to answer mps questions.

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

So the Tories hate the gays now.

 

 

http://www.islandecho.co.uk/news/andrew-turner-resigns-mp

[ewerk 30235]

Only now?

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

A bit of a landslide in the end.

 

 

[Kid Dynamite 6986]

Aye, the Eu lives on and we are the odd ones out once again. Strong and stable ....

[adios 717]

Some faith in humanity restored.

[Dr Gloom 21804]

Thank Christ for that.

[Rayvin 5168]

I can't quite believe how even it was at the first round given this result, but I suppose all three other candidates voters were unlikely to turn out for Le Pen.

 

That's the Eu stabilized then. Good.

[adios 717]

Future US president:

 

[ewerk 30235]

They'll go as far as electing a black but a ginger? Never.