Ooh La La Macron the Moron meets his Waterloo.........

[Guest pelmetman]

>:-) ...............

 

The sense of desperation and decay hits you in the most unlikely places, especially on the Champs-Élysées itself – the famed thoroughfare acknowledged as the most beautiful in the world.

 

But today there are piles of rubbish, vagrants with nobody to beg from, and lines of high-end shops, cafés and restaurants with security grills permanently pulled down.

 

And like everywhere else in the French capital, graffiti is commonplace. The most popular slogan is: ‘Macron, démission!’ or ‘Macron, resignation!’.

 

These words became particularly pertinent this week, when Emmanuel Macron – at 43 the youngest president in recent French history and by no means the least arrogant – made a rare admission of incompetence.

 

Discussing the EU’s failure to implement a vaccine strategy, he said: ‘We didn’t shoot for the stars. That should be a lesson for all of us. We were wrong to lack ambition – the madness... to say, ‘‘It’s possible, let’s do it!’’.’

 

There was no hint of an apology. In fact, he later said he had ‘no mea culpa to offer, no remorse, no acknowledgement of failure’.

 

And while praising America for its vaccine policy, he did not mention Britain – a nation he has taken to bashing since the 2016 referendum to leave the EU. This is despite the UK rolling out 46 doses of Covid-19 vaccine per 100 people, compared to just 13 for France.

 

Now the death toll is approaching 100,000 in France, infection rates are exploding to 65,000 cases a day, and the number of patients in intensive care is at a four-month high of more than 4,500.

 

As a third wave threatens to engulf us, the capital’s wards are so overcrowded that patients are being evacuated by helicopters to other parts of the country for treatment, and 80 per cent of non-Covid procedures have been cancelled.

 

Ministers constantly blame the so-called British variant for the spike. But it is Macron & Co’s failure to control the crisis that has seen the emergence of strains from South Africa and Brazil. From this weekend, France is on Germany’s list of ‘high-risk’ destinations and Britain may follow suit.

 

Many of the less advantaged are dealing with the consequences of a collapsing economy and wondering if it will recover.

 

Walk around French cities and you are certain to come across crowds shouting for him to quit. Foremost are the Gilets Jaunes – or Yellow Vests. They started in 2018 calling to end fuel price rises. Buoyed by Macron’s concessions, they made more demands, including Frexit – France’s EU exit

 

Macron, a former banker and finance minister, is acutely aware of the crippling economic and social problems created by the pandemic. Queues at food banks are a common sight, and there has been a 45 per cent increase in demands for state aid since 2019.

 

He justified his reasons for not locking down in January as Britain did because of education. But schools may not remain open much longer as infection rates among pupils have risen from 9,000 to 15,000 in one week.

 

As for the month-long lockdown restrictions announced a week ago, their enforcement during daylight hours is a joke.

 

Large groups congregate along the Seine and in parks and squares. Social distancing is seldom maintained, and many do not bother with masks.

 

It is only at night that a curfew ensures that the City of Love and Lights is quiet. Police ask those on the streets for the piece of paper that justifies their presence.

 

If you do not have one, the fine is €135 (£115), and arrests of those considered a threat to public order are frequent, especially in suburbs where there has been an explosion of gang fights.

 

Macron’s inability to institute a coherent coronavirus resistance programme intensifies the sense of crisis. On top of the EU’s failure to procure sufficient vaccines and initiate a rollout, excessive red tape – for which France is notorious – is a factor here.

 

To this, we must add the traditional French mistrust of vaccines. Macron’s political posturing over the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab has fuelled suspicion. In January, he dismayed health officials when he claimed the Oxford jab was ‘quasi-ineffective’ in the over-65s. This month, French experts decreed it was in fact suitable for everyone.

 

When concerns were raised about a possible link to blood clots in a small number of patients, Macron appeared to seize on this to further spread distrust in the jab, which was temporarily suspended.

 

When the European Medicines Agency gave it the all-clear, its use in France was restricted to over-55s, despite a lack of substantive evidence to support this.

 

Such farcical U-turns led a despairing Professor William Dab, France’s former director of public health, to say there had been ‘a divorce from science’ under Macron. Half-hearted lockdowns and the lack of coherent test-and-trace meant ‘the battle against contamination is lost,’ he said.

 

The damage has been done. According to one poll, almost two-thirds of French people think the AstraZeneca vaccine is unsafe.

 

Macron is guilty of blatant politicking over vaccines, putting the health of millions at risk. So why has he done it? The answer is a mix of vanity, personal ambition – and hatred of Brexit which, he once told me, he regards as a ‘crime’.

 

In the ‘vaccine war’ he saw his chance to be a ‘general’. And his ultimate goal is clear. He views himself as the only candidate to succeed Germany’s Angela Merkel as de facto leader of the EU and the greater federal project.

 

UK success in going it alone in the vaccine race emphasises the failings of the bloc, which he cannot stomach.

 

‘I’ll defend Europe, the common destiny the peoples of our continent have given themselves,’ the new Napoleon, has said. How hollow that seems after nearly four years of chaos in France.

 

Macron has his eye on re-election next year, but his initial promise as an energetic independent politician is wearing thin. He is increasingly seen as a shallow egotist without the vision or management skills to implement change – and Covid has amplified that.

 

Foremost are the Gilets Jaunes – or Yellow Vests. They started in 2018 calling to end fuel price rises. Buoyed by Macron’s concessions, they made more demands, including Frexit – France’s EU exit.

 

Much of their early success was the result of violent street protests that saw large areas of Paris vandalised at a cost of millions.

 

I stood on the Champs-Élysées watching buildings being set on fire by furious hordes as Macron skulked in the Élysée Palace.

 

Devoid of ideas or authority, he simply hoped that the problem would go away.

 

As a metaphor for his handling of the worst health and economic crisis faced by the EU, it could not be bettered. And now things look to get worse – much worse.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9408307/NABILA-RAMDANI-humbling-LEgotiste-Emmanuel-Macron-thinks-hes-new-Napoleon.html

 

 

[thebishbus]

Strange this blame the British variant. Is it really a British variant, or is it just that we detected it first, after all it was first found down south near Dover. Crossed over the Channel do you think.?

BrianB.

[John52]

We have left the EU so how much longer can you blame them for your problems?

Or focus on their problems to avoid mentioning the worse problems here?

When you told us Brexit would make us better off.

And, after all your flag waving nationalism and insults and lies against the EU, why would they not be Anti-British?

[Guest pelmetman]

thebishbus - 2021-03-27 7:51 AM

 

Strange this blame the British variant. Is it really a British variant, or is it just that we detected it first, after all it was first found down south near Dover. Crossed over the Channel do you think.?

BrianB.

 

Precisely ;-) ...........It was first detected here by our state of the art Genomics abilities B-) ........

 

Not that its a problem for us in Brexit Blighty as the AZ vaccines is effective against it :D .........

 

But it is a problem in the EU because they have cocked up their vaccine roll out and bad mouthed a vaccine that is effective against it *-) ...........

 

 

[John52]

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

[Guest pelmetman]

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:01 AM

 

We have left the EU so how much longer can you blame them for your problems?

Or focus on their problems to avoid mentioning the worse problems here?

When you told us Brexit would make us better off.

And, after all your flag waving nationalism and insults and lies against the EU, why would they not be Anti-British?

 

Worse problems here??? :-S ........

 

You really are a deluded old fool aren't you Joke52 (lol) (lol) (lol) .........

 

I'll be hoisting my flag again on Monday to mark the UK making another step out of Lockdown B-) ........

 

Just as the EU you think has done better than Brexit Blighty heads back into Lockdown >:-) .......

 

[John52]

thebishbus - 2021-03-27 7:51 AM

 

Strange this blame the British variant. Is it really a British variant, or is it just that we detected it first, after all it was first found down south near Dover. Crossed over the Channel do you think.?

BrianB.

 

We don't know for sure what country the virus was in when it mutated.

Probably never will.

But since Britain has been blaming the EU for everything,

why is it strange they should reciprocate and blame us?

[Guest pelmetman]

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:11 AM

 

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

 

Its funny how you dont mind the Scottish Nasty Party waving the Saltire or Macron the Moron using insults and similar language about Brexit *-) .........

 

But then again you are a massive HYPOCRITE >:-) ...........

 

 

[Guest pelmetman]

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:18 AM

 

thebishbus - 2021-03-27 7:51 AM

 

Strange this blame the British variant. Is it really a British variant, or is it just that we detected it first, after all it was first found down south near Dover. Crossed over the Channel do you think.?

BrianB.

 

We don't know for sure what country the virus was in when it mutated.

Probably never will.

But since Britain has been blaming the EU for everything,

why is it strange they should reciprocate and blame us?

 

We do know China started it, we also know it took a foothold in Italy, France and Spain first :-| ........

 

So the EU is in no position to slag anyone off *-) .........

 

 

[Barryd999]

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:11 AM

 

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

 

Yes it never ends well, flag shagging.

 

That Daily Mail article could easily have been written about the UK a few months back. If they think Macron is incompetent he has nothing on Johnson. As for the much more infectious British Variant well we probably are to blame as allowing a virus to run rampant like it did here massively increases the likelihood of a new variant morphing out of a virus ravaged nation. The charts for Covid in the south east at the backend of last year were off the scale. Perfect breeding ground. Many places in Kent and east London were up to 1000-1500 rates per 100000. Here in the Dales it never got above 100 and is now gone completely.

 

[Guest pelmetman]

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 8:49 AM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:11 AM

 

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

 

Yes it never ends well, flag shagging.

 

That Daily Mail article could easily have been written about the UK a few months back. If they think Macron is incompetent he has nothing on Johnson. As for the much more infectious British Variant well we probably are to blame as allowing a virus to run rampant like it did here massively increases the likelihood of a new variant morphing out of a virus ravaged nation. The charts for Covid in the south east at the backend of last year were off the scale. Perfect breeding ground. Many places in Kent and east London were up to 1000-1500 rates per 100000. Here in the Dales it never got above 100 and is now gone completely.

 

 

Does the above apply to Scottish Nasty Party flag shagging Too??? >:-) ..........

 

 

[John52]

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 8:49 AM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:11 AM

 

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

 

Yes it never ends well, flag shagging.

 

That Daily Mail article could easily have been written about the UK a few months back. If they think Macron is incompetent he has nothing on Johnson. As for the much more infectious British Variant well we probably are to blame as allowing a virus to run rampant like it did here massively increases the likelihood of a new variant morphing out of a virus ravaged nation. The charts for Covid in the south east at the backend of last year were off the scale. Perfect breeding ground. Many places in Kent and east London were up to 1000-1500 rates per 100000. Here in the Dales it never got above 100 and is now gone completely.

 

 

Fair point, yes.

Since it was first found in England, and England had the worst infection and death rate, odds on the 'Blighty virus' did mutate in Blighty.

[John52]

pelmetman - 2021-03-27 8:58 AM

 

 

Does the above apply to Scottish Nasty Party ..........

 

 

Are you talking about the party that has just given nurses a backdated 4% pay rise from your 0.0037p ?

By your account Nicola Surgeon sounds like Jesus Christ feeding of the 5,000 :-D

[John52]

Person who did best out of WW2 seems to be Churchill?

Couldn't get rid of him till the war was over.

Then he wanted to join the remains of the German Army and fight Stalin.

Conveniently forgetting he had sent Stalin our weapons and supplies.

Quite worrying that flag waving BoJo models himself on Churchill.

Has taken us out of the EU, and is stockpiling weapons 8-)

[Barryd999]

John52 - 2021-03-27 11:17 AM

 

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 8:49 AM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:11 AM

 

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

 

Yes it never ends well, flag shagging.

 

That Daily Mail article could easily have been written about the UK a few months back. If they think Macron is incompetent he has nothing on Johnson. As for the much more infectious British Variant well we probably are to blame as allowing a virus to run rampant like it did here massively increases the likelihood of a new variant morphing out of a virus ravaged nation. The charts for Covid in the south east at the backend of last year were off the scale. Perfect breeding ground. Many places in Kent and east London were up to 1000-1500 rates per 100000. Here in the Dales it never got above 100 and is now gone completely.

 

 

Fair point, yes.

Since it was first found in England, and England had the worst infection and death rate, odds on the 'Blighty virus' did mutate in Blighty.

 

Of course it did. Had our hapless government ever got control of the virus in the first place the chances of it happening would have been much less. As if Brexit wasn't enough and the rise of nationalism and loathing for Europe we have now given them a version that is 70% more infectious. That and the sneering over vaccines, I bet we are really popular across the water right now. The Brexiteers will love that though. They dont care that through total incompetence we have lost over 140000 people and its only thanks to the vaccine and the fantastic roll out by the NHS its looking like we may come through the third wave better off than most. Bizarrely they seem to think Johnson is some kind of saviour.

[Guest pelmetman]

John52 - 2021-03-27 11:20 AM

 

pelmetman - 2021-03-27 8:58 AM

 

 

Does the above apply to Scottish Nasty Party ..........

 

 

Are you talking about the party that has just given nurses a backdated 4% pay rise from your 0.0037p ?

By your account Nicola Surgeon sounds like Jesus Christ feeding of the 5,000 :-D

 

Deflection (lol) (lol) (lol) ..........

 

 

[Guest pelmetman]

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 12:18 PM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 11:17 AM

 

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 8:49 AM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:11 AM

 

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

 

Yes it never ends well, flag shagging.

 

That Daily Mail article could easily have been written about the UK a few months back. If they think Macron is incompetent he has nothing on Johnson. As for the much more infectious British Variant well we probably are to blame as allowing a virus to run rampant like it did here massively increases the likelihood of a new variant morphing out of a virus ravaged nation. The charts for Covid in the south east at the backend of last year were off the scale. Perfect breeding ground. Many places in Kent and east London were up to 1000-1500 rates per 100000. Here in the Dales it never got above 100 and is now gone completely.

 

 

Fair point, yes.

Since it was first found in England, and England had the worst infection and death rate, odds on the 'Blighty virus' did mutate in Blighty.

 

Of course it did. Had our hapless government ever got control of the virus in the first place the chances of it happening would have been much less. As if Brexit wasn't enough and the rise of nationalism and loathing for Europe we have now given them a version that is 70% more infectious. That and the sneering over vaccines, I bet we are really popular across the water right now. The Brexiteers will love that though. They dont care that through total incompetence we have lost over 140000 people and its only thanks to the vaccine and the fantastic roll out by the NHS its looking like we may come through the third wave better off than most. Bizarrely they seem to think Johnson is some kind of saviour.

 

Nothing Bizarre about it ;-) .........

 

Boris admits he made mistakes at the beginning of the Pandemic :-| .......

 

The difference between Boris and the likes of Macron the Moron and the EU he learn't from them B-) .......

 

Where as Macron and the EU are turning their F*ckups into a Catastrophe for our neighbours 8-) .......

 

I wonder how those EU citizens feel now that they know their lives are worth less than a Big Mac meal to their wondeful EU masters??? *-) ..........

 

 

[Barryd999]

pelmetman - 2021-03-28 9:56 AM

 

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 12:18 PM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 11:17 AM

 

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 8:49 AM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:11 AM

 

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

 

Yes it never ends well, flag shagging.

 

That Daily Mail article could easily have been written about the UK a few months back. If they think Macron is incompetent he has nothing on Johnson. As for the much more infectious British Variant well we probably are to blame as allowing a virus to run rampant like it did here massively increases the likelihood of a new variant morphing out of a virus ravaged nation. The charts for Covid in the south east at the backend of last year were off the scale. Perfect breeding ground. Many places in Kent and east London were up to 1000-1500 rates per 100000. Here in the Dales it never got above 100 and is now gone completely.

 

 

Fair point, yes.

Since it was first found in England, and England had the worst infection and death rate, odds on the 'Blighty virus' did mutate in Blighty.

 

Of course it did. Had our hapless government ever got control of the virus in the first place the chances of it happening would have been much less. As if Brexit wasn't enough and the rise of nationalism and loathing for Europe we have now given them a version that is 70% more infectious. That and the sneering over vaccines, I bet we are really popular across the water right now. The Brexiteers will love that though. They dont care that through total incompetence we have lost over 140000 people and its only thanks to the vaccine and the fantastic roll out by the NHS its looking like we may come through the third wave better off than most. Bizarrely they seem to think Johnson is some kind of saviour.

 

Nothing Bizarre about it ;-) .........

 

Boris admits he made mistakes at the beginning of the Pandemic :-| .......

 

The difference between Boris and the likes of Macron the Moron and the EU he learn't from them B-) .......

 

Where as Macron and the EU are turning their F*ckups into a Catastrophe for our neighbours 8-) .......

 

I wonder how those EU citizens feel now that they know their lives are worth less than a Big Mac meal to their wondeful EU masters??? *-) ..........

 

 

Except quite the opposite is true. At every stage and every lock down he has not learned from his mistakes. He did not follow the science or the recommendations every time to lock down earlier or in October to put in a circuit breaker. Then at Christmas he finally decided to cancel it way to late and the damage was done, he then sent the schools back for one day just to let them spread the virus around again before sending them back home again and as a result of it running rampant a new 70% more infectious variant emerged in the south east which ran out of control and then infected most of Europe!

 

How can you sit there with a straight face and say he learned from his mistakes? LMFA!

[Guest pelmetman]

Barryd999 - 2021-03-28 2:40 PM

 

pelmetman - 2021-03-28 9:56 AM

 

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 12:18 PM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 11:17 AM

 

Barryd999 - 2021-03-27 8:49 AM

 

John52 - 2021-03-27 8:11 AM

 

I really don't like all this nationalistic flag waving, insults and war like language (Waterloo)

Thats what leads to wars.

Something the EU has been very successful in preventing.

Worst of all when it comes from old people won't fight their wars they started

But send our lads to go and die for them.

 

Yes it never ends well, flag shagging.

 

That Daily Mail article could easily have been written about the UK a few months back. If they think Macron is incompetent he has nothing on Johnson. As for the much more infectious British Variant well we probably are to blame as allowing a virus to run rampant like it did here massively increases the likelihood of a new variant morphing out of a virus ravaged nation. The charts for Covid in the south east at the backend of last year were off the scale. Perfect breeding ground. Many places in Kent and east London were up to 1000-1500 rates per 100000. Here in the Dales it never got above 100 and is now gone completely.

 

 

Fair point, yes.

Since it was first found in England, and England had the worst infection and death rate, odds on the 'Blighty virus' did mutate in Blighty.

 

Of course it did. Had our hapless government ever got control of the virus in the first place the chances of it happening would have been much less. As if Brexit wasn't enough and the rise of nationalism and loathing for Europe we have now given them a version that is 70% more infectious. That and the sneering over vaccines, I bet we are really popular across the water right now. The Brexiteers will love that though. They dont care that through total incompetence we have lost over 140000 people and its only thanks to the vaccine and the fantastic roll out by the NHS its looking like we may come through the third wave better off than most. Bizarrely they seem to think Johnson is some kind of saviour.

 

Nothing Bizarre about it ;-) .........

 

Boris admits he made mistakes at the beginning of the Pandemic :-| .......

 

The difference between Boris and the likes of Macron the Moron and the EU he learn't from them B-) .......

 

Where as Macron and the EU are turning their F*ckups into a Catastrophe for our neighbours 8-) .......

 

I wonder how those EU citizens feel now that they know their lives are worth less than a Big Mac meal to their wondeful EU masters??? *-) ..........

 

 

Except quite the opposite is true. At every stage and every lock down he has not learned from his mistakes. He did not follow the science or the recommendations every time to lock down earlier or in October to put in a circuit breaker. Then at Christmas he finally decided to cancel it way to late and the damage was done, he then sent the schools back for one day just to let them spread the virus around again before sending them back home again and as a result of it running rampant a new 70% more infectious variant emerged in the south east which ran out of control and then infected most of Europe!

 

How can you sit there with a straight face and say he learned from his mistakes? LMFA!

 

What a deluded fool you have become Barry 8-) ............

 

Pssst I'm going to hoist my flag to celibrate day 1 B of coming out of Lockdown and over 30 million getting their jab B-) .........

 

How are your EU chums doing??? >:-) ........