What a ridiculous thing to say that there is “no good outcome for France”. Le Pen winning and getting rid of Macron would be incredible!!!!

@Isewein

3 күн бұрын

That's at least two years in the future though. Until then, France will be in a political deadlock at best.

@russellwilliams1163

3 күн бұрын

The term far right is used by the global elites to control the peasants

@tudormiller887

3 күн бұрын

Exactly! 7 years of Macron. The French are saying "Enough is Enough" We don't have PR here in the UK, unfortunately. But maybe PR rather than FPTP is the future.

@PaulJones-xl6xq

3 күн бұрын

It has to be tudar!!!!

@stephfoxwell4620

3 күн бұрын

France is a functioning democracy with a healthy PR system. It reflects what the French people want.

Just goes to show how out of touch the political elites are.

@lianasammartino8490

3 күн бұрын

European elites have been, and are nazist!

@davidharrington1133

3 күн бұрын

Totally

Populist is just a word Neil likes to use for the working class.

@emceaboom

2 күн бұрын

Populist =/= popular

@RichardPhillips1066

Күн бұрын

No its anyone anti establishment, cause he's a neo liberal bucket of lard, yes he is a snob as well though

@RichardPhillips1066

Күн бұрын

Tbf all smug status quo valueless centists like Neil hate populists , they hate Trump and he's a billionaire

@RichardPhillips1066

Күн бұрын

Its next to impossible to reply two comments deleted

@gandydancer9710

Күн бұрын

@@emceaboom They're more popular than you are.

france is simply protecting borders. markets will love it.

Macron seems a total fool.

@whackamole4909

3 күн бұрын

I feel that may be true as well

@drscopeify

3 күн бұрын

He is still gambling that by the next Presdential eleciton in 3 years that people will turn against the right and move back to the center but time will tell.

@didelysquat

2 күн бұрын

He is a total fool and full of himself and full of it.

@georgeash4008

Күн бұрын

Like many successful people it has gone to his head and the French people are enjoying humbling him.

@RichardPhillips1066

Күн бұрын

Fool no , typical useless technocrat liberal elite yes

"It's time to punish the unvaccinated" - Andrew Neil Never forgive. Never forget.

@Eris123451

3 күн бұрын

That Andrew Neil, I'd almost forgotten thank you. Low life.

@McSnappples

3 күн бұрын

Thanks for reminding us.

@sn4831

3 күн бұрын

They might have got away with it, but they didn't win. Their true nature was revealed to so many of us. I dont think they'd get away with it again.

@russellwilliams1163

3 күн бұрын

Neil wanted to punish those who wanted to think for themselves. Sounds like a dictator to me. Thanks for letting me know.

@user-qo8ci2ye6v

3 күн бұрын

"It's time to punish Britain's five million vaccine refuseniks: They put us all at risk of more restrictions, says ANDREW NEIL. So why shouldn't we curb some of their freedoms?" Mail Online 22:00, 9 December 2021

Hopefully Marine Le Pen will make big head way in the elections

@siblej1

3 күн бұрын

I hear that she’s less of a fan of the U.K. than macron

@RopekingRopethemall

3 күн бұрын

Yes

@clydewilson5907

3 күн бұрын

The left, woke, progressive way of life is over. IT DOESN'T WORK KIND OF LIKE COMMUNISM, yet they keep trying it. Fools.

@lenabo9929

3 күн бұрын

Doubt it. They will do well at this election. Bit french presidential will be far harder to win. More people dislike her than like her. Likely whoever the opposing candidate is will win simply because more people will dislike her

@PaulJones-xl6xq

3 күн бұрын

@@siblej1we don’t need fans of the uk we need someone in France who is a fan of France and not the invaders infection all of Europe you really think they will be allowed to travel through France under a real right wing government don’t be silly. You best pray for your children’s sake the hard right start winning all over Europe including here unless you have offspring to the boat men that is 🤮🤮

Labour better build those millions of houses, reservoirs, power plants and train those GP’s. They can’t afford to be catastrophic failures like the previous Tory and Labour Governments. Rent slaves with no house, no family, no hope and no health care, will vote in ways that Starmer and the Establishment won’t like.

@evolassunglasses4673

3 күн бұрын

Mass immigration will destroy the next government's spending plans.

@maccagrabme

3 күн бұрын

They wont deliver anything.

@NerdlySquared

3 күн бұрын

You will get some more weird and useless gender stuff, even more draconian censorship and surveillance, more immigration, more debt, more impoverishing environmental austerity and higher prices, that’s about it. In other words, more of the same and faster.

@paulgbar666

3 күн бұрын

You can build 1 million houses per year. Still not enough to match immigrant demand!

@teameve1976

3 күн бұрын

Labour full of hot air. We know they will teenage in everything and bankrupt the country.

There was a lot of fearmongering over Georgia Meloni, how did that work out?

@gandydancer9710

Күн бұрын

She turned into a cringy "centrist", acceptable to this crowd.

Describing the Conservative Party as "the right" is laughable.

@russellwilliams1163

3 күн бұрын

Sone people on the far left even call the Tories far right. Double laughable .

@KennyG-qh8jc

3 күн бұрын

i know hilarious

@JosephStealin

2 күн бұрын

Zero seats

@RichardPhillips1066

Күн бұрын

I saw a lefty call them fascist :) demented

So what exactly is the populist right ? Perhaps we should have a little less intellectual speculation , and a lttle more direct action.

@januarysson5633

3 күн бұрын

People who actually work for a living rather than just have convos all day from their cushy apartments.

@FrancoisChavalier2104

3 күн бұрын

Populist right for the elites means disdain for the peasant, AKA working people

It's okay, Andrew - you'll still be allowed to get to your chateau in the South of France. 😉

@jstewart4205

19 сағат бұрын

It's not a Chateau.

Truss was naive. Andrew Bailey in conjunction with Treasury civil Servants screwed her on behalf of the Establishment. Hopefully Le Pen was watching.

The managerial class are being given a bloody nose, and they're being reminded that power lies with the people. Whether they listen, or double down on their insanity, remains to be seen.

@aidy6000

3 күн бұрын

Managerial class. I like it. That's what they are, jumped up managers 😂😂😂

His gamble made 0 sense to begin with, there was no evidence they would win.

@drscopeify

3 күн бұрын

His Gamble is still playing out, that the right will be poorly and by the Presidential election in 3 years people will go back to Macron but we will see.

@januarysson5633

3 күн бұрын

So he’s not Jupiter after all. 🤣

@jatrius

3 күн бұрын

Probably advised by Sunak's cabal. Completely out of touch, they thought they could put a fright into their respective electorates.

@adrianabarbulescu9270

2 күн бұрын

Look closer - it's a trend it's deliberate , planned - they retreat , dissapeare and leave chos , anarchy behind .

😂😂😂 the Centrist Global Uniparty Hegemony is smashed 😂😂😂

@drscopeify

3 күн бұрын

That never existed.

@RichardEnglander

3 күн бұрын

@@drscopeify yes it does, we see it with climate change, immigration, Lockdowns, speech controls etc etc. We haven't had any opposition, just Uniparty consensus on these HUGE things. If you don't think it exists then you probably aren't thinking of that which I imagine, maybe taking the phrase to literally or something?

@alessandrozetticci

3 күн бұрын

​@@drscopeify They speak of the mainstream western liberal politics, the one that manifests globally in its opposition to non-western block countries ability to govern themselves through international institutions and American military power. The same institutional hegemony manifests domestically in the West, and more than ever since COVID.

Wake up msm. The DAVOS group is collapsing! Yeah! 🤣🤣

@gopalramanathan7062

3 күн бұрын

Lest we forget, the European Common Market which evolved to become the EU happened at a time when Europe was essentially homogenous culturally and economically - we shared Common values. But then in the last three decades or so Europe has undergone a profound change - we witnessed mass immigration from the non European world, de industrialisation (shifted all to China), rampant globalisation - all resulting in making these lands shockingly heterogeneous. The rise of Wokism and IslamoFascism was the final straw. If we don’t fight for European values and nationalism now it would soon be too late, this is the last change. May the National Rally set the trend.

@briangasser973

3 күн бұрын

Isn't Sir Kier who will win a massive majority part of the Davos crowd?

@juliawigger9796

3 күн бұрын

@briangasser973 all the political parties apart from Reform, are globalists. They directly ruled by DAVOS/Bilderberg group. Its how the EU came about ,then they took over all goverments.

@jayes776

3 күн бұрын

@@briangasser973 he definitely is! Said he prefersxDavos to Westminster.

@ 11:04 . "All the major cities are labor ..." Were they not so for the past 200 years? The factories came up in towns and cities. Any villages they came up in did not remain villages. That's what the Industrial Revolution did. The communist manifesto was not meant for an agrarian economy. Not much labor in the countryside to pay for labor unions .

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet is rather good isn't she.

@januarysson5633

3 күн бұрын

No. She is a snob. I thought she was British the way she speaks English but I guess not. She’s a walking advertisement for National Rally. She knows nothing of the difficulties of the average French citizen. I bet she is a millionaire. Okay. Go ahead. I’m sure you want to delete my comment now.

@julianchase95

2 күн бұрын

“Adorable,” as they say in French :)

@yousoufkirkwood6289

2 күн бұрын

voluble, certainly.

Viva Le Pen

netzero, high immigration are not center positions...they're far left. The center have gone far left. They can bugger off as far as I'm concerned

What a ladylike presenter. Not allowable on BBC, where we need DEI scruff mispronouncing Walkin, Talkin and Votin.

@mrbaker7443

3 күн бұрын

So refreshing, indeed.

@VaucluseVanguard

3 күн бұрын

“Mispronouncin” surely. One thing I have noticed is how many parees are standing candidates in these elections.

@davidnour6963

Күн бұрын

Yes, BBC and other British news presenters are real ignoramuses and should be fired.

@gaynorslater8881

20 сағат бұрын

Yes I agree. Don’t forget the sports presenters too with their lazy sloppy dialect with words like Ci-y and Uni-Ed. En-i-y. I’m quite sick of not being able to understand the majoriTy of what is being said by all presenTers actually 😢

@davidnour6963

17 сағат бұрын

@@peterchaloner2877 my comment has been deleted. Ministry of Truth?

Neil (a dubious character indeed) talking on behalf of Est. to the Est. for the Est.. Well, change is afoot.. One race is run, and another is about to start!

@robertcook2572

3 күн бұрын

The blinkered, bigoted minds of these people are impossible for me to comprehend. They genuinely seem completely unable to see things from other people's point of view. They seem unable to even annunciate the words which approximately describe the hopes and fears of others. We scoff at the maniacal religious certainties of mediaeval zealots, but their like live among us still

@gjthomas9770

3 күн бұрын

​@@robertcook2572 l read the exact same paragraph on wiki .....😅

@jstewart4205

19 сағат бұрын

Change is not always for the good or better...that is why Labour can't explain the 'Change'.

We need Reform in the UK. Vote Reform Uk this coming Thursday

@Bene-FX

3 күн бұрын

and use a pen

@GayorgVonTrapp

3 күн бұрын

@@Bene-FXBut be careful that the ink doesn’t smudge on the opposite side of the paper when you fold it - it could render the slip ‘spoiled’ as you might end up with a cross in two boxes. Be careful.

@tudormiller887

3 күн бұрын

The liberal elite globalist politicians want to smear Farage & Reform UK with all these Channel Four news reports about racism, misogyny, homophobia, islamophobia, anti Jewish comments by party members.

How in the hell is Keir Starmer a Centrist???

@gopalramanathan7062

3 күн бұрын

He’s of course a looney Far Left.

@marysmik9812

Күн бұрын

@@gopalramanathan7062 A globalist. There is nothing patriotic about him.

@jstewart4205

21 сағат бұрын

@@gopalramanathan7062 Very looney,

@jstewart4205

19 сағат бұрын

One ball either side of his tights seam.

@gopalramanathan7062

19 сағат бұрын

@@jstewart4205 That vividly explains the puzzle 😉

This lady is wrong claiming National Rally doesn’t speak English. I’ve just listened to an interview with Talk TV with a French NR guy speaking better English than I speak French.

This lady's English is a touch old fashioned and very charming. 'His name is mud' and 'wishy washy'.

@januarysson5633

3 күн бұрын

“American racialism.” 😆😅😂🤣

@king-fisher

3 күн бұрын

​@@januarysson5633 That bit was *100% SPOT ON.* American racial identity politics is the most toxic cult to ever emerge from the sewage of U.S. academia.

@dindu551

3 күн бұрын

she's grand. a true grandee. how can you not like her?

@januarysson5633

3 күн бұрын

@@dindu551 She must have survived the French Revolution.

@MrResearcher122

2 күн бұрын

She's granddaughter of a French Colonial Diplomat, Marious Moutet. She's got that breeding and arrogance that led to the French Revolution.

so you're saying is that La France was having some "mostly peaceful protests"

@jstewart4205

19 сағат бұрын

Lefties hate democracy.

Labour will have only one disastrous term in the UK

@briangasser973

3 күн бұрын

They did fine under Blair. If it is an Atlee one term govt, it will be a success. A center left govt may nor be bad for the UK

@simonkramer9463

2 күн бұрын

@@briangasser973Blair’s government went to war, squandered our exchequer’s surplus, engorged the public sector and destroyed the sovereignty of our commons. But go on…explain what went well please?

@mikemulrooney4824

2 күн бұрын

The Dimocrats in USA also only had one term. Sadly enough to nearly destroy a nonce great nation.

@jstewart4205

21 сағат бұрын

@@briangasser973 Blair wasn't Labour.

Marine Le Penn does speak English !!!

@mw8653

3 күн бұрын

Is Starmer articulate in French.

Amusing to hear AFN harrumphing off camera after being out talked by AEM. She's a card. He's a francophile and always good value. A great discussion. Bring these two on again Freddy.

The WEF will find a way of keeping their guy in place....let's hope not .

At what stage does a political party changed from trying to get as many votes as possible by appealing to as many voters as possible become populist?

@jstewart4205

19 сағат бұрын

When they actually win the votes. populist = popular

Andrew looks like he enjoyed himself too much last night.

Ha..ha.. Bye Bye Marcon. The COUNTRY needs Li Pen for Saving COUNTRY and Generatoin.

France have a Rigging-system that could be bent in favour of establishment in time of emergency like last week RN 33.14% win, on 5th July 2nd round this Rigging-system would be activated in favour of Macron

@monsieurlapinot2549

3 күн бұрын

we have to put proportionnal system...

@drscopeify

3 күн бұрын

Its not rigging its the design of the French system since 1950s.

@adrianabarbulescu9270

2 күн бұрын

Forget the "rigging system " , beware of people's anger , the slumber is ending !

The portrait of Andrew Neil is very Alan Partridgesque - and especially fitting given the damage he has done to his media career.

when the squishy center is to scared to try to stop the worst aspects of the left, people search for those that will

Just maybe the saviour of Labour very well could be Le Penn! By that I mean IF Lepenn ends up taking over and actually cracks down on illigal immigrants in France this could very well help Labour as all those illigal immigrants sitting on the channel waiting for a small boat to England will no longer be there! We can just hope can’t we!

@jstewart4205

19 сағат бұрын

She will still be in the EU...the migrants will be going no where.

Vote Reform. Save Britain.

@danconceptsconveyed6617

3 күн бұрын

Just like Brexit? Did that save us?

@briangasser973

3 күн бұрын

It won't make any difference with Labour majority.

@julianchase95

2 күн бұрын

…by splitting the Tory vote…

@bimfred

2 күн бұрын

classic Russian bot banter

@russellwilliams1163

2 күн бұрын

@@danconceptsconveyed6617 yes it did.

Lose Neil (he's starting to do a Biden) and keep Moutet.

Anne-Elisabeth's accent is totally fantastic

As has happened before, the centre and left will unite and use tactics to reduce the Le Pen’s vote share in the second round to ensure no majority is obtained.

VOTE REFORM 🗳️🇬🇧

@Bene-FX

3 күн бұрын

and use a pen

@Azareatth

3 күн бұрын

@@Bene-FX you do realise there are better, faster ways to fix a vote than to go around rubbing someones cross out and putting it in another box? -.-

@Bene-FX

3 күн бұрын

@@Azareatth enlighten me ?

@drscopeify

3 күн бұрын

@@Bene-FX Use a Le Pencil.

nah all the other parties will gang up on Le Penn

@welshlad6427

2 күн бұрын

Yes I agree.

The lady saying the far-left of France got racialism from America, as if racialism doesn’t pop up anywhere there’s rapid change in racial makeup, which has occurred in France and the whole of the west of course. That rapid change also explains why cities are leftists and racialized, but rural areas aren’t that.

God Save the King and let’s f’ing go Nigel!!! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

Describing the current Tory party under Sunak as right wing is laughable.

Makes no difference as there is not a politician on the planet at present who's not a puppet.

Absolutely fantastic news... VOTE REFORM

Mr Neil and Ms Moutet two of the best political commentators around...always fascinating.

How you can possibly blame this on America instead of the Islamic influence, or the French is wild. Ya know what. You get what you deserve for not calling it what it is.

@Swanny212

2 күн бұрын

America is the root of all evil in the world.

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet is wonderful… lifts my heart :)

Metropolitan areas are centre left left leaning for a reason. When those areas are the habitual destination of non natives and the political blob in their bubbles, that is what you get. And I believe it is a misrepresentation to argue that small towns and rural areas are faaar right merely because they are traditional patriots.

Macron must now truly understand that negative emotion is more powerful than positive emotion

I think he's being a man of his word. Want someone else? Have at it. I'll just retire with untold riches and laugh when the idiots burn it down.

As an impartial point: the two round system seems very inefficient and ineffective. Australia's preferential voting system is much more efficient and it prevents people from feeling like they wasted their vote.

Your lady guest, in addition to being terribly attractive, is very, very knowledgeable about French politics. Great and informative blog.

An introduction to French elections. Elections are in two "tours" the first is open to any parties or independents. To win outright in the first tour a party must gain 51% of all the votes cast "and" 25% of the entire electorate. This prevents someone profiting from a low turnout. In the second tour, only the top two are allowed to present in each constituency. There can be a certain amount of coalitions formed and parties joined. The winning candidates can then if they have a majority take power or lesser parties can again form a coalition. Bare in mind that this has no effect on the President, he remains until the end of his tenier. The President then choses ministers of state including Prime Minister. It is entirely normal for people to make protest votes in the first tour, and obviously supporters of minority groups will gravitate to their closest candidate ideologically in the second tour. Paradoxically a good result in the first tour ça be detrimental to that party in the second. Imagine a second Brexit vote after people had been startled by the initial result.... Et maintenant, on verra !!!

National Rally people not very clubbable! LOL

Screw Macron ... what about Joe. Who will be the demo candidate in the 11 th hour. Remember the 1972 Olympics? Anybody?

@adrianabarbulescu9270

2 күн бұрын

Know the Nostradamus prophecy on events taking place at/around the Olympic games ? Anyone ?

@user-zq3iz3zn5m

2 күн бұрын

@adrianabarbulescu9270 Never read or know Nostradamus. Sounds like the guy who enterperates the Bible for the Jehovah Witnesses.

Saying zionist is same thing as jewish is insult to jewish people.

I didn't think the UKs FPtP system could be topped, but the french system is even worse than ours!

@emceaboom

2 күн бұрын

? The French system is great. You can express your top preference freely in the first round. Then, you choose a concensus candidate in the second. It's only 'worse' for those who want to predict an election result in advance.

@Dezzasheep

2 күн бұрын

@@emceaboom I disagree. An election should be a single choice at one point in time... Not an opportunity to gang up, or create tactical voting to edge out a popular group when everyone knows the wind direction. I'd go as far as staying this is the worst kind of election outside vote rigging.

Populist? Called that because it is POPULAR.

😅 macaroon is done!

@mariadange06

3 күн бұрын

Hope he buggers off to Cameroon 😂

Perhaps this is a Macronist moment, where a president with imperialist tendencies gifts himself a popular right parliament, to ride the moment of the time.

Not sure about a much touted rural urban divide. Liberal Party of Canada just lost one of its core urban ridings - the one they held for the last 30 years none the less, in Toronto to their conservative rivals. the reality is that urban dwellers by and large care about those same bread and butter issues that are a primary focus of residents in less urbanized locales.

Thank you.

This is a development straight from Giuseppe Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo. Much is being changed so that nothing is changed. Le Pen would never have won otherwise.

France and Russia cozy up, Germany and the Low Countries get nervous, Britain looks to play both sides against the middle. I think I saw this movie before?

it would be bad if national rally wins, but you don’t know what they could do??

Starmer, Macron, Trudeau… what’s the difference? Hint: none.

Good go back to your old job at the glue factory

Wait till the second round. The mass of French will dive for the centre. They always do.

When did center left become far right?

@marysmik9812

Күн бұрын

When muslims became a race. 🤣🤣🤣

This lady is like a breath of fresh air with her wonderful elocution and enunciation. Oh the joy it brings to my ears 😊

He can't bear to give any credit to the Right.

There was a book about it many years ago i read, called "Metro and Retro".

Les Republicains died with Sarkozy and Fillon.

If Starmer fails? That is a racing certainty

"Macron's gamble has backfired..." He didn't have a mandate after he EU elections so I understand why he called an election. It is not about clinging to power when the public has moved on from you.

Orban must be looking at France and laughing his head off.

Id love to see Andrew Neils garden there behind him. Looks fabulous 😊

Just gotta love Macrons cool hair dye! 😬🤣👊🤥

Le Pen is mightier than the Sword.

Ever thought Macron just got sick of it all?

Excellent analysis

Thank God France is awakening from its slumber. FRANCE FOR THE FRENCH!!

Neil must be delighted!

Mr Neil is correct in saying that the EU is not the place we left. However not because of probably relatively marginal and reversible gains by the right , but because Brussels has greatly increased the degree and depth of its power at the expense of the national states, The French lady was interesting in that she was able to speak with authority about the possible cat fight that will erupt over the standing down process between the French liberals and what in many ways is the far left . A left that is far more interested staging violent demonstrations that in administration. She speculates what effect this might have on basically conservative voters who until now have not supported M. Le Pen. What is this issue about urban v suburban/ rural ? Urban areas have always generally elected lefties on the whole, but there are swings. In 2019 in particular the Tories took inner city areas.

FIRST!! HOORAY FOR MOI!

I could listen to Andrew read the tax code

Poor France. Always in turmoil?

Macron can go cry to teacher!

It's Edward Heath all over again. I want to determine who's in charge - and the answer was, not you matey. Honestly Macron had another three years in charge - albeit it with a weaker government than in the last parliament. And now ? .......

geeeee doesn't she talk

Well, Neill appears to have recovered just fine after some appalling comments through the Covid debacle, so I don't see why he can be so cynical about Macron's future

weird thing i've noticed that no one else will care about, is the French refer to Macron as Jupiter, where in the UK we wouldn't refer to someone as Zeus, but we would more likely use the Greek form of a God than the Roman form, weird hey

Awesome episode. Keep up the good work!

It's Sir Kier, not 'Mr Starmer'!

@marysmik9812

Күн бұрын

He is a trustworthy working class spokesman LOL 🤣🤣🤣