Le Pen has lost and Macron is President, and the BBC is very happy….a pro-EU Hollande placeman has taken office…the BBC portrays him as centrist but he is leftist, and the BBC say he was an outsider…and yet he had been at the centre of Hollande’s government and had a war chest of over £80 million…not bad for an outsider….just where did that come from? He says he wants to reform the EU but his ‘reform’ is intended to strengthen the EU’s position and indeed make France more powerful within the organisation [no surprise he is being called the new Napoleon…you know, the guy who wanted to ‘unite’ Europe under a French flag]….the French you suspect will live to regret this choice far more than they would if they’d picked Le Pen. Five years till the next election…a long time as immigrants flood in to France and its politicians take no serious action to deal with an Islamist threat and fail to defend French culture and civilisation. It might make any civil war more likely and far more bloody and painful. Will there be a civil war in Europe? Almost a certainty….5 years, 10 years or 20 years down the line…but it’ll happen, many would suggest it is already ongoing….or a complete surrender and the end of Europe as we know it…..as Douglas Murray says….Europe signs its own death warrant.
Macron was asked if he had any off shore accounts, he denied this. Then we had a massive leak of documents, some of which were claimed to prove he had an off shore account…but the denials were furious…this was all a Russian plot, the documents were forgeries and this was a plot to undermine French democracy.
The BBC said it was not reporting on the leaked documents because of French election law but the BBC happily spent the weekend reporting Macron’s defence, which in fact was more an attack, and indeed part of his election strategy it would seem…so the BBC was in fact still playing a part in the election and its reporting was shaped to favour and support Macron as it continued to link Le Pen to Russia and claim these leaked documents were probably hacked by the Russians to undermine French democracy and to damage Macron…without saying just why they might damage Macron…just as they failed to examine what it was about the Clinton emails that could have damaged her election chances.
You have to ask just who in fact benefitted from the hacking…it was Macron not Le Pen. The documents were released at a very suspicious time…minutes before the shutdown of electioneering and media coverage….thus any reporting of the contents would be impossible legally and yet a whole operation was suddenly cranked into gear to pump out a message that Macron was the victim of Russian, and Le Pen, dirty tricks in order to ‘undermine French democracy’….this got massive coverage, including from the BBC whilst the actual supposed allegatons got zilch.
Just who hacked and released the emails? The Russians, French intelligence or Macron’s own team? Logic would suggest it was someone pro-Macron.
Might it have been the BBC’s Hugh Schofield who after the Le Pen/Macron debate raved about the ‘brilliant’ Macron and blamed Le Pen for dragging the debate down with her ranting, raucous, divisive lying, Le Pen at her worst he told us? Hmmm….except Macron had already made several lurid attacks on Le Pen before the debate and during it he continued to smear and malign her as a racist, an anti-Semite and a Nazi.
It seems to be love for Hugh as he gets excited about…
Emmanuel Macron’s irresistible charm
As someone said in a recent documentary on France’s new president: “The guy could seduce an office chair.”
Whatever they may think of his politics, the French have had the sense to elect as their leader one of the most brilliant figures of his generation. Charming, of course. But also super-smart, energetic, uncorrupt, creative, young, optimistic.
No bias there then….the sense to elect????
They do refer to the French as “Cheese-eating surrender monkeys”. Well today they’ve done the surrendering; now they just need some cheese.
Better make sure that’s halal cheese. They’ll be needing it.
Ready with the fromage
Macaroni and cheese
Have we been Permitted to know anything about the secrets concerning the leak of Macron docs ?
Or is it still all under embargo ?
And is the BBC still piously keeping quite …
Yesterday was radio and TV free until I put on the radio in the car at just after 7pm. The Archers was on so I had the volume turned right down, just waiting to see what delight would turn up at 7:30.
Well it was a ‘cry wolf’ moment, a French Election Special. But was it? Could it be one of those political ‘comedy’ shows that have become all the rage since Donald Trump put his hat in the ring? I was genuinely unsure for the first few minutes but then, when we were told that a low turnout had led to ‘fears’ that Le Pen might win I knew it must be un-biased BBC political commentary.
Fortunately ‘fear’ had been replaced by ‘hope’, the referendum theme, and the EU project is back on track and everyone was happy, especially as a ‘good’ Brexit could be harder to achieve!
It amuses me the way that it has become fashionable for our elite to use ‘hope’ as a positive word. To me it has something of the flavour of ‘faith’, a belief without evidence. As the mountaineer observes the broken strands of her rope she thinks, “I hope it will be strong enough to take my weight.” The ‘faith’ of the idiot.
Well done Obama … the advice so slitheringly offered was just what the French needed …
Not surprising fitz, the parallels between the creation and finance of both Obama and Macron are significant – and equally odious. But don’t tell the BBC.
The BBC email ‘news’ summary has arrived:
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Macron wins – but can he unite France?
“Everyone told us it was impossible, but they don’t know France,” said Emmanuel Macron, as he celebrated being elected the country’s next president. The 39-year-old centrist took almost two thirds of the vote, seeing off far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
But Mr Macron, who started his own party last year, has no MPs and may well need to pull together a coalition to govern effectively. He certainly has “charm”, says BBC Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield, but will that be enough to unite a country divided over immigration and its place in the world?
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The BBC seem to feel it is best to go with one degree of separation, using an odd quote from the victor. This ‘they’, who said it was impossible? What was ‘impossible’?
The plucky outsider says the plucky outsider has won. Lucky it was by a margin in excess of 52%, or it would be “throw another Renault on the fire, Jean-Mo”, Paul Mason on The Breakfast sofa en route back to his new Newsnight sinecure.
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Read full analysis >
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BBC ‘full analysis’. Good one.
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Other top stories
The Conservatives set a target in their last general election manifesto of cutting annual net migration to the “tens of thousands”. It’s not been met, with recent figures putting it at 273,000. On Sunday, Home Secretary Amber Rudd did not say whether the pledge would be repeated this time round. But the BBC’s Ben Wright says he understands it will be.
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A target? Not met? Quelle horreur. And Ben’s ‘analysis’ is based on that notoriously flexible, selective deployment of BBC ‘understanding’.
So very different from when Labout make a pledge and Nic Robinson cut and pastes the press release and… well, that is that.
FIN.
‘…but they don’t know France’ says Macron. Oh yes they do, ‘Emmanuelle’ – that’s the problem.
I was listening to the World Service hoping to hear some information about what the email leaks contained, but got nothing. But I didnt hear the Beeb telling me they had decided not to investigate the leaks because of French electoral law, mmmm. Is this a British media organisation or a French one! Surely the BBC is not bound by French election law, anymore than French magazines publishing topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge are bound by UK libel laws.
Has the Guardian asked for reader help to trawl through the mass of information released about Macron to find some “dirt”?
Oh silly me. He is an approved person, unlike Sarah Palin!
Macron, the fake candidate, put up and funded by France’s centre-left elite. France has such a strange system of government, essentially designed for DeGaulle and intended to keep out non- establishment politicians. The BBC may be happy but France’s deep seated problems will only get worse. In the long run the EU continues to be doomed.
… and Goldman Sachs will feel quite at home as the meddling proceeds …
Traditionally the elected President walks out to the French national anthem for his victory speech, not mentioned by the Beeb was Hollandes son entered to the EUSSR anthem and promised to defend Europe I suspect not against the islamic invasion but against “normal people ” when the penny drops that he’s handing France to the fourth Reich.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/801596/France-French-Election-Emmanuel-Macron-Brexit-European-Union-Anthem-Ode-to-Joy
Living in France and in the rural area , we notice the difference between rural and towns, going into the Hotel de Ville (town hall) where the voting figures for the area were displayed after the first round Macarony was 18% with Le Pen on 24% and Melenchon on 27%.
Many here feel that Le Pen was correct when she said the next President was going to be a woman Her or Frau Merkle, well the French chose Merkle.
After 6 Deadly Islamic Attacks and 130 Deaths in 3 Years – Paris Votes 90% for Macron … just as Mutti in Berlin wanted …
Thanks to whoever posted this excellent analysis of Macron’s dodgy bio on this website. He’s just a puppet and we can only guess who will be pulling his strings, I imagine that as President he will be nothing more than an autocue reader.
https://helenaglass.net/2017/02/03/frances-emmanuel-macron-groomed-by-rothschilds/
The bbc on Facebook seems to have realised that endless ‘news’ about Emmanuelle does France is looking possibly a bit plus bent than a Neuf Euro note. So, they have drafted in a ringer…
Banksy takes on #Brexit.
The BBCs lunchtime news presentation on Macron started with a screen saying ‘reality check’. This just sums up the delight the BBC takes in what it sees as any pro EU, anti Brexit development. All paid for by the taxpayer !
I’m being rather childish but…..
The item mentions Macron having a war chest of 80 million, anyone have any links qualifying this assertion?
The French have a Bank Holiday today today as they do annually on 8 May to celebrate the end of WW2. France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940. We fought on until 1945 when they were finally defeated and the war in Europe was over. Who deserves the Bank Holiday more?
Macron went to the most expensive school in France, followed by the top university. He was parachuted into a senior bureaucrat role with the last government, and is a Bilderberger. Only the Biased BBC could refer to him as an ‘outsider’.
Or as a a ‘centrist’!