KW: The incredibly loathed Macron is facing the fury of the French people who are taking to the streets and turning Paris into a war zone. Many of the protesters argue they don’t know how it was Macron was elected in the first place and that he was put there by electoral cheating backed by bankers from whom he came into politics. They argue his policies are only helping the elite while ignoring the fundamental problems ordinary French people face, it almost civil war but it’s mainly in Paris it seems so thats streching it too far?, perhaps, but perhaps its not. Macron is out of touch writes Prof Steve Hanke, Paris burns while Pres Macron pens and empty op-ed in todays WSJ about climate change. Shows how out of touch he is and why his goose is cooked. Zerohedge reports “Whatever Macron has planned, he better act fast – as there are currently 15,000 angry French Yellow Vests signed up for next Saturday’s protests in Paris; three times as many as last weekend, while 104,000 are a “maybe.”
Approximately 136,000 demonstrators donning yellow reflective vests were recorded across France on Saturday – of which approximately 5,500 protested in the French capital according to the interior ministry. The previous weekend saw 166,000 demonstrators, and 282,000 the week before that.
One commentator writes The elites have gone too far. The costs of the 2008 financial crash have been met by ordinary people, not the greedy bankers & financial spivs who caused it. The people have had enough of austerity & falling/stagnant wages. What’s happening in #France now is only the start.
Over 400 arrested…