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Did you hear him talk about the EU the other week?
One of the greatest political interviewers of his time. And he never lets his own political leanings influence his grillings. Hence the reason Johnson ran away from him.
Regarding the French riots, what a shame that the far left, Islamists and antisemites have hijacked what were genuine grievances.
This clip sums it up perfectly.
Antisemites, Jew haters and crashing bores will be put on ignore.
One of the greatest political interviewers of his time. And he never lets his own political leanings influence his grillings. Hence the reason Johnson ran away from him.
Regarding the French riots, what a shame that the far left, Islamists and antisemites have hijacked what were genuine grievances.
This clip sums it up perfectly.
Well that's a hot take even by your low standards, I see that the BBC are now rewriting history and putting the yellow vest movement as an exclusively left wing thing.
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Well that's a hot take even by your low standards, I see that the BBC are now rewriting history and putting the yellow vest movement as an exclusively left wing thing.
I'll go with this 73 year old Parisian woman rather than your, and others, hot takes thanks!
“It says a lot about society – it shows we have neglected our education system and that we’re living in a consumer society where all we say to our young people is: ‘buy, buy, buy’. In this type of extreme capitalism, some people don’t have enough money to buy all of this and so they attack.”
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
I'll go with this 73 year old Parisian woman rather than your, and others, hot takes thanks!
“It says a lot about society – it shows we have neglected our education system and that we’re living in a consumer society where all we say to our young people is: ‘buy, buy, buy’. In this type of extreme capitalism, some people don’t have enough money to buy all of this and so they attack.”
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
I'm a huge fan of Marseille, despite its reputation. Very saddening.
French society is utterly fractured, and the chaotic end result of 15 years under Sarkozy, Hollande, and Macron was entirely inevitable.
France has long maintained one of the highest public spending-to-GDP ratios and heaviest tax burdens in Europe. Yet, despite burying its citizens in taxes to fund massive entitlement programs, the state is fundamentally broken. The national debt is soaring toward 119% of GDP, and structural unemployment remains sky-high across multiple distinct demographics. They say the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money, but leave it to the French to run out of money and still find to keep the astronomic levels of tax and spending.
Will the EU finally force the French government to restructure its reckless spending? It seems to me that we are witnessing the final throes of the European project. The glaring disparity between a unified monetary union and decentralised national fiscal policies was inevitably going to end exactly like this.
A couple of open questions for discussion:
1. Why do people still push for closer European integration given the undeniable economic destiny we are watching unfold in France?
2. If the Eurozone is forced to choose between financially bailing out its second largest economy or letting the currency bloc fracture, can the European Union actually survive the fallout?
I'm a huge fan of Marseille, despite its reputation. Very saddening.
French society is utterly fractured, and the chaotic end result of 15 years under Sarkozy, Hollande, and Macron was entirely inevitable.
France has long maintained one of the highest public spending-to-GDP ratios and heaviest tax burdens in Europe. Yet, despite burying its citizens in taxes to fund massive entitlement programs, the state is fundamentally broken. The national debt is soaring toward 119% of GDP, and structural unemployment remains sky-high across multiple distinct demographics. They say the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money, but leave it to the French to run out of money and still find to keep the astronomic levels of tax and spending.
Will the EU finally force the French government to restructure its reckless spending? It seems to me that we are witnessing the final throes of the European project. The glaring disparity between a unified monetary union and decentralised national fiscal policies was inevitably going to end exactly like this.
A couple of open questions for discussion:
1. Why do people still push for closer European integration given the undeniable economic destiny we are watching unfold in France?
2. If the Eurozone is forced to choose between financially bailing out its second largest economy or letting the currency bloc fracture, can the European Union actually survive the fallout?
1. people cherry pick. they focus on the single market while trying to ignore monetary and fiscal integration. 2. yes, they'll bail them out.
And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show
1. people cherry pick. they focus on the single market while trying to ignore monetary and fiscal integration. 2. yes, they'll bail them out.
Regarding 2. I forget what that stability group is called, but I just don't think they would have the funds and the restrictions on France would be eye-watering.
Imagine the German government having to borrow money to bail out France!
It's no secret that I've never been a fan of the EU, economically it never made sense to me to have monetary union but not fiscal union.
Thank God for Gordon Brown (excusing all his other failures of course....)
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