Jonathan Miller Jonathan Miller

Will French voters be revolted by the new popular front?

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The Nouveau Front Populaire has been formed to take on Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the French legislative elections.

It is a coalition of ultra-leftists, woo-woo greens, a candidate who has been identified as an active Antifa activist, the tottering geriatric residue of the French communist party and also many traditional opportunistic socialists. These include former president François Hollande, who has leveraged his support for a safe seat in the Corrèze, and Raphael Glucksmann, who had previously been positioning himself as the sensible face of the left. He has now aligned himself with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the tantrum-prone Gaza-obsessed Trotskyist who rules the hard left France Insoumise.

The new popular front is offering an economic programme that seems to have been drawn up in a circus clown car

The new popular front is offering an economic programme that seems to have been drawn up in a circus clown car, proposing 150 measures which are in totality and individually insane.

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