Are the far-right about to govern in France? | The News Agents
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- Live from Paris, Lewis and Jon react to the news that the far-right have stormed the French parliamentary elections in the first round - putting Macron in severe peril and the radical right, formed decades ago from the embers of Nazism, at the top of power in France.
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Happy Birthday Lewis
Ok - so in England's Next match, Jon Sopel has to stand outside a bar and start talking about the prospects of the French far right. It's the only way to ensure we score against Switzerland.
I truly do not understand what is going on with the world at this moment in time. How has it come to this?
People have said for the last couple of decades why we've come to this point.
Capitalist interests do not align with human interests.
Too much immagration
The migrant crisis
People have to see a way they can better their lives, unfortunately corporate business has hoarded more and more wealth. Then use that wealth to push division and keep the 99% looking sideways and not up.
The thing lurching most to the right (and the left) was the chap with the camera ^-^
😂😂😂😂😂yes
Many years ago, shortly after moving from Paris to a small village near Reims, I understood at least one reason why the FN was successful. The election leaflet from the left was a small black & white photo + two A4 sides crammed with small print. The right sent out a small colour photo + info on one side of an A4. Then there was an A5 brochure: several pages, lots of colour photos, simple headings, large print....easy on the eye, easy to read, easy to understand. And on the back the NF logo.
What does it mean for there to be ‘peasants’ in France in the year 2024?
That the elite and media have lost touch
Yeh that was a strange thing to hear
Most of Europe has not undergone the degree of land consolidation that happened in Britain and as a result there remains a continuity of a small farm system, with it a small farmers’ culture and therefore the continued presence of peasants as a social, cultural and political class. Mostly culturally conservative and economically left leaning, they have their own political parties and are largely doing their own thing, very often in opposition to the city folk. Frankly I believe Britain would greatly benefit, culturally and socially, had something similar been preserved. But it wasn’t. (Edit- the word peasant carries negative connotations in English, not necessarily in other languages. In other languages there is often significant pride attached to it. This say something about the English attitude towards social class and about the attitudes of other countries, but it doesn’t necessarily say what you thought it did.)
@nosuchthingasshould4175 it just hasn't existed in Britain for such a long time there was nothing to preserve. There is no "folk" in the UK like on the continent. Alan Macfarlane's great work the origins of English individualism goes a long way to explaining why this is
@@nosuchthingasshould4175 he was talking on English, however, so your argument is moot, …
After all, he had been the French foreign correspondent during Chirac‘s time…he should know about negative connotations
Great program. Thank you. Happy Birthday Lewis
This is what happens when large part of the population lose hope. Politicians need to start looking after their people or this is going to keep happening in countries everywhere. They can't just keep letting things get worse with policies that are all show and don't actually solve things.
Exactly.
Deal with immagration the fat right goes away
Yeah, they won't.
I don't think you fully understand how the Far Right works.
They thrive off finding an 'other' to hate and blame for all the problems people face in society. Can't get a job? It's clearly not because employers are minimising both the number of people they have to employ but also the amount they have to pay them; it's because of Martha down the road.
If that 'other isn't immigrants, it's LGBT people, or non-white people, or the Jews. Or women who don't want to be just wives and mothers.
Or a combination of everything, really.
Strange how no one wants to discuss migration.The single reason we are seeing these populist movements
If we deport all the immigrants they'll just find something else to be angry at. You can't pander to prejudice. The only real solution is to tackle the root cause of the anger, which is poverty and obscene inequality
Dealing with immigration is a hard right policy...
Also how would you suggest we deal with an ageing population without immigrant labour?
And how can you morally justify not accepting refugees from war and climate change that the west is often largely responsible for?
@@stephenwood2172 have more children.
We are not responsible for anybody other than our countryman
Vichy France lives again!
‘Grown up’ Centrists should be ashamed of what they do in every country they run.
Agreed. They think can do large scale corruption, continually lie to the electorate and be puppets for billionaires by simply wearing a nice suit and sounding slick and professional. It has worked for a time but it cant last forever...
Le Pen is mightier than the Sword.
I'm pretty sure any WW2 vets will be feeling pretty sick right now
"[Macron] gambled, and lost."
I gambled, and lost once. What a mess!!!
The camera is best left in one place with a view of both interviewer and interviewee - great programme otherwise, learnt a lot 😊
All I know about French politics is that Macron is president and Le Pen is far right, plus they used to have a very short leader. This was very helpful, thank you.
Thanks for posting
Just once i'd love to hear what it is "The extreme left" is going to do that we're meant to be worried about
Raise taxes on the rich and media companies like this one. But that would be popular which is why they don't mention it!
Another factor which may have changed with time is how much the French MSM is motivated to take a proactive lead in the blocking effort. In 2017 and 2022 it was noticeable that most of the media was still keen to feel the relief that follows from keeping the hard right out.
Would you say the change is that the French MSM are fatigued, or have maybe had a change of guard?
@@alexharrison2743 : I'd say it comes across that they are now conflicted. Not easy to be platforming softened hard right featuring "glamorous" whizzkid images and stick with a convincing reaction to the menace the RN represents.
Weird to call elections right before France hosts the Olympics
difference with rishi is it was only going to get worse for the tories, everyone would be talking about how he should have called the election earlier.
Is Lewis wearing Mama jeans? It must have been a long GE campaign 😅
Are they in Las Vegas or Cincinnati ( Eiffel Tower in background)
Is the guy in the burgundy shirt the lead singer in It Bites. 🤔
so what's changed? not because of unemployment?
33 minutes in….. very worrying that my sons friends….intelligent young men (20-21) from a rural area, with University degrees, jobs, and apprenticeships, and no local visible effects from immigration, are planning to vote for Reform UK. Something has appealed to them and it’s a real worry for the future of UK politics. There is also no party for naturally inclined, left wing young people. My son would be one of them but feels he is reluctantly having to vote Labour. Watch this space for the rise of Reform.
As long as Labour cannot find their stance on women‘s rights vs trans women…because it‘s never about anyone else, the young people who have lived with gender neutral toilets in school have no one to vote for
Have you tried asking your son's friends why Reform appeals to them. They might care about the country as a whole not just "visible effects locally".
Why wouldn't they vote Green? This is the obvious vote for naturally inclined left wing people given they are a straightforward leftist party.
Because even if you live in a village you notice when your capital city is now an English minority
@@maximus8574I don’t really think that applies to these lads. They are all very reasonable and generally well informed.
What’s up with Jon? He looks like he is asleep.
7:26 they are discussing a 3-way race, negotiating for victory I believe the French call it a melange-a tois ;-)
Mélange-à-trois….de rien
I take it they both like the hard right?
Are you referring to Lewis & Jon? If so, what gives you that impression?
Did you not listen to this?
Wow, they say 'Hard Right' & 'Far Right' so much its almost like theyre getting off on it.
Well, by definition they’re correct, so?
@@J-wm4go In this decade maybe, mostly policies labour held in the 60s, 70s and 80s. But hey, professional attitude changers!
Correct
2 repressed sports presents 😂
Far right, never far left. Propaganda.
we're getting a far right gov too, stamer/farage, here we go.
Starmer?
I know Starmer is not exactly a leftie - but why would anyone think he'd want anything to do with our own pound shop Le Pen?
farage has had a bad week.
Far Right? Are top rates of tax going to be 20% or less?
I don't think anyone has used the term "far-right" to describe low taxes!
@@stephenwood2172 Political Scientists do. Left-Right is an Economic Axis. How money is distributed within an economic system. Most folks are unaware of this and tend to be misled by anti academic media sources.
“It’s Jon, it’s Lewis” ……..cringe! How about just saying “I’m Jon………etc”
Lighten up
Starmer: Accused = Guilty
(PMQs 19/04/23, 3 mins 15 secs)