A Strumpet Nation

Donald Forbes has a piece in TCW on President Macron's difficulties.

AS HIS country returns to work after its two-month summer break, President Macron has delivered a grim message about what is in store for France and by extension for its EU allies: the fat years are over.

An accumulation of crises signals a future of which the disruptive Covid lockdowns were only a foretaste...

With this in mind, his remarks to the first post-holiday meeting of his ministerial cabinet were broadcast live so that the public could share his account of the difficulties ahead and hear his plea for national solidarity and for sacrifice from a fickle nation which is divided against him in the National Assembly.

What stuck in everyone’s mind is that he considers ‘abundance’ to be a thing of the past.

It is worth reading the whole thing, but I'll just finish the post with one of the comments as I can't resist a solid piece of invective. These difficult times certainly deserve invective. An abundance of invective perhaps.

Ravenscar
France should be a prosperous and stable nation but it is a strumpet 'nation' sold itself off to the empire and la cinquieme republique run by a series of megalomaniac clowns with grand delusions but no clue about small state necessity. Maas immigration, a banking system flat broke and breathing fumes, inflation running rampant, it's nuclear fleet on its knees and imminent energy rationing, a state sector unaffordable and somehow the circus is still going, oh yeah funny money/ecb bond purchasing. A mental dwarf in charge. Crikey the UK by comparison is a success story - but that ain't saying much.