Courtesy of Mish.
Two recent events regarding Marine Le Pen and her eurosceptic party have the nannycrats in Brussels worried. The first occurred in early October when Marine Le Pen’s Eurosceptic “National Front” Party Took Lead in France National Poll.
Yesterday, a huge victory by the National Front in a local election had the nanmnycrat alarm bells ringing.
Please consider French far-right victory stirs fear among mainstream parties
A local council by-election in a small town in the sleepy hinterland of France’s Côte d’Azur would not normally be the stuff to shake national – much less international – politics.
But a decisive victory by the National Front (FN) in Brignoles on Sunday night has set alarm bells ringing in Paris that the far-right party, led by Marine Le Pen, will repeat the feat more widely across the country in municipal elections in March.
Just as ominous, not just for mainstream parties in France but across the EU, is the prospect that the vote signals a much-feared surge by the populist right in European elections due in May.
Fingerpointing
The bickering, finger-pointing and blame-placing events in the wake of the election are rather amusing.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault blamed the FN’s win over the centre-right UMP on its leaders “who didn’t lift a finger to defend their candidate”.
Jean-Francois Copé, the UMP’s president, responded that Mr Ayrault should “come to his senses”, saying the result was caused by President François Hollande’s “calamitous” Socialist government, which backed the Communist candidate in Brignoles.
Both parties are afraid that the FN’s campaigns against crime, immigration, Islam, the EU and globalisation are striking a chord with voters at a time of double-digit unemployment and deep disillusionment over the ability of the traditional parties to deal with the country’s problems.
“The FN poison contaminates a whole country and all its politics,” commented Libération, the leftwing newspaper.
Poisoned Policies
Those looking for poisoned economic policies should look no further than the policies of socialist president Francois Hollande. Here are a seven prime examples.
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