Watch Nathalie Loiseau, Emmanuel Macron’s Europe sherpa, concurrently mislead and patronise Andrew Neil on his present final evening. I assumed Ne
Watch Nathalie Loiseau, Emmanuel Macron’s Europe sherpa, concurrently mislead and patronise Andrew Neil on his present final evening. I assumed Neil would chew her up and spit her out. However on the evening, it was much more weird:
May the EU afford no deal?
“I’m stunned {that a} journalist doesn’t know that there aren’t strikes any extra in France” replies Nathalie Loiseau, French MEP
https://t.co/iwlKzbAdes #andrewneilshow pic.twitter.com/1q3Vaxkfko— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 5, 2020
Requested by Neil if it was the time to take a tough line on Brexit negotiations, when Europe’s financial system is already fragile after persevering with labour unrest, Loiseau opted for brazen contempt for actuality seasoned with particular conceitedness sauce. That is well-known to these used to coping with the excessive echelons of the French state.
There aren’t any extra strikes in France, she declared, including for good measure she was ‘stunned’ a journalist wouldn’t know that. Does Macron recognise how silly this makes him look? Why would he make use of somebody who makes claims which are so ludicrously and clearly unfaithful?
This morning, this clip doesn’t function on the Twitter feed of Loiseau, who along with being Macron’s level individual on the European Renaissance (his venture to deepen the EU comity) can be an MEP, former ally of Man Verhofstadt and an ex-director of the École Nationwide d’Administration. This, in fact, is the hothouse for the ultra-top degree of the French administrative class.
Clearly Loiseau’s assertion is ridiculous since this morning my trash was not collected and this discover was posted on the door of the native submit workplace. Clearly, they didn’t get the memo:
To verify the proof earlier than my very own eyes, I’ve an app on my iPhone referred to as ‘C’est la grève’ which reveals, though it appears to have escaped Loiseau’s consideration, that immediately there’s a nationwide strike protecting nationwide and commuter rail, air visitors management, faculties, hospitals and trash assortment, together with quite a few different sectors.
Certainly, in France, we’ve had nothing however strikes for months, interspersed with such spectacles as cops preventing firefighters within the streets, protesters maimed by exploding police munitions and monumental piles of garbage in some communes. But these are all apparently imaginary, in keeping with Nathalie Loiseau. Disgrace on Loiseau and the incompetent or credulous journalists who’re making an attempt to argue that none of that is occurring.