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→ Emmanuel Macron: all European nationalists are hidden Brexiteers
Emmanuel Macron is embracing his newfound role as Europe’s prophet of doom. In an extensive interview with the Economist published today, Manu takes aim at the usual suspects — Russia, men of fighting age who don’t want to be sent to Ukraine — but also finds room to make a comparison between European populists and Brexit supporters.
“So I say to Europeans: Wake up. Wake up!” the French President implores. “All European nationalists are hidden Brexiteers. It’s all the same lies. In the end, it’s the same results. And make no mistake. If you entrust the keys to people who think like they do, there is no reason why Europe should become a great power. No reason at all.”
Elsewhere in the Economist chat, Macron claims that “the best way of building together [in Europe] is to have as few nationalists as possible.” But hang on: what’s this? The man who would like to be known as Jupiter seems to have some nationalist impulses of his own. “The French nuclear deterrent,” he argues, “is the quintessence of the sovereignty of the French people.” Weapons as national symbols? We’re entering dangerous territory here…
→ Americans unite around Old Glory
Anti-Israel protests are uniting Democrats and Republicans, with the Mayor of New York City offering a full-throated condemnation of the flying of a Palestinian flag at Columbia University.
NYC Mayor Adams: "It's despicable that schools would allow another country's flag to fly in our country. We're not surrendering our way of life to anyone." pic.twitter.com/ES0z1jqb5x
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 1, 2024
“You don’t take over our buildings and put another flag up. That may be fine to other people but it’s not to me. My uncle died defending this country,” Eric Adams said of the Columbia protests. “So blame me for being proud to be an American. We’re not surrendering our way of life to anyone.”
He joins the UNC Chapel Hill frat boys — who went viral for hoisting up an American flag in the midst of a campus protest — in a moment of national pride in Old Glory. Nothing like a campus protest to bring Americans together.
→ Tories haemorrhage Leave voters
It was less than five years ago that Boris Johnson campaigned and won on a mandate to deliver Brexit, gobbling up the UK’s Leave vote. Now, according to the latest Times/YouGov poll, the Conservatives have fallen to third place among Leave voters. Reform UK’s total of 32% of the vote share may not be wholly surprising, but Labour now sits at 28% for Brexit supporters, ahead of the Tories on a dismal 27%.
In today’s YouGov poll the Tories are third amongst Leave voters:
Reform 32%
Labour 28%
Tories 27%And also third amongst Remain voters
Labour 56%
Lib Dem 13%
Tories 11%— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) May 2, 2024
Perhaps the most worrying part of the poll, for Rishi Sunak at least, is that Reform is still climbing. Richard Tice’s party polled at 16% among all voters, closing the gap with the Conservatives to just 2%. If Nigel Farage puts an end to the flirting and actually heads up Reform for the election, that 2% will surely disappear. With the Tories also third among Remain supporters, losing the Leave contingent makes one wonder what the party stands for anymore.
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SubscribeCrowd funding has raised $400k for those frat boys to have a party. It will be a doozy.
Man…I may be older but I would REALLY love to have an invite to THAT party.
If you entrust the keys to people who think like they do, there is no reason why Europe should become a great power.
I seem to recall that the last time Europeans were great powers was when the whole shebang was being run by people who would make Boris Johnson look like a doctrinaire Eurocrat. Then y’all screwed the pooch and threw it all away; now you want it back, only you don’t want to admit you want it back and you don’t want to put in the hard work of reconquering the rest of the world. Please do not be surprised if I am somewhat less than sympathetic to your aspirations, Micron.
A man who sleeps with his gran cannot be taken seriously. It is just too much gay Paris.
There’s nothing hidden about them, you federast buffoon.
Not all Democrats hate the flag, but everyone who hates the flag is a Democrat.
That’s an insult to many fine flag-haters.
Anyone who desires for Europe to become a great power should elect leaders who show more dignity than a fluffer, when dealing with the US foreign policy establishment.
And yet the most pertinent question in relation to the Macron interview is…is anyone really listening anymore?
There are actually at least three good reasons why the EU won’t become a great power. They are these:
The Euro which bound wildly disparate economies together without the political structures, let alone will, to do anything significant about the problems this would cause for the periphery.The baked-in Neoliberalism of the Lisbon Treaty with all the capital FoM & deficit rules therein. The fact that the enlargement that took place around the same time Lisbon was agreed along with the various unanimity clauses of Article 48 make any reform of this impossible. Of and much of the EU’s political class are quite happy with US vassalage. Ours certainly are.
Well no shit, Pierre. People in EU countries have been seeing what a crock the whole thing is for a long time now. May their number increase.