So let’s talk about the UK elections:
But not quite all is lost:
And just for the hell of it, some of the other kind of Brits:
Voting record for the above: unknown.
Category: Mocking Furriners
Britishland Election Day
…and I think I can speak for all my Brit Readers, Stout Bulldogs that they are, when I say:
…as opposed to today’s shit show.
Edward Longshanks would have had them all hung, drawn and quartered by now.
Ah, the good old days.
Round One To The Good Guys
When Charles De Gaulle stated that it was impossible to govern a country which produced 246 types of cheese, he was really talking about politics. So in a country where there are at a rough guess about five political parties per voter, national elections are two-rounders: the first round eliminates most of the outliers, and the thing gets serious in the second round.
Even so, I was surprised at the first round results: National Rally garnered a full third of the votes cast, with FrogPres “Granny-Shagger” Macron’s “globalist” party a distant third (after the Socialists).
Marine Le Pen‘s far-right* National Rally party led France’s snap parliamentary elections on Sunday with 33% of the vote, according to the interior ministry, with the leftist alliance New Popular Front following in second place at almost 28%. President Macron’s ruling coalition trailed in third place with 20%.
Of course, the Left accepted the election results stoically… nah, just kidding, they went all hair on fire and screaming riots, as is their wont when the people don’t vote the way they want them to.
The French people may have spoken at the ballot box, but the result clearly left some feeling very upset. Protests erupted in several French cities overnight, most particularly in Paris, where thousands gathered. The New Popular Front, which represents a spectrum of left wing parties from the pro-European Union centrists to full-blooded communists has earlier threatened they would “resist” the result if the RN won, and the protests may be the firs throes of that, although given there is a week to run until the second round of the election actually allocates the majority of the seats and decides whether Le Pen’s RN can command a majority in the house or not, perhaps expect more violence next week.
Comment of the week: “Every dead cop means one less vote for Le Pen”, thus combining support for lawlessness with political terrorism in one pithy sentence.
On a parallel note: the Greens got no votes at all (being part of the 3.1% “Other”, which encompasses over a dozen parties.
Roll on, Sunday.
*they aren’t, except by the standards of the Howling Left.
Next Week: Armageddon
…for the Brits, anyway, as they are going to vote the Communist Labour Party into power because reasons.
After Bill Clinton was elected President, I remember expressing my amazement to a friend that almost the very first thing he did was increase taxes. My friend’s response was withering: “Of course he raised taxes: he’s a fucking Democrat, and that’s what they do.”
Now back over The Pond…
Here’s the opinion of the Greatest Living Englishman on the topic:
Anyone who thinks that Labour will behave in any way differently to what Clarkson says needs to jump off a cliff. And in fact Labour may do worse, much worse.
I’m not taking any bets on that.
Usual Response
When the Left wins elections (even through fraud), conservatives mutter darkly and go back to work.
When it’s conservatives (“right-wing”) who win elections, the Left goes all hair in fire, e.g.:
French police across the country have launched tear gas at furious activists protesting the far-Right’s massive gains in the European Union elections over the weekend.
Marine Le Pen’s hardline National Rally party won a sweeping victory on Sunday night, taking home 32% of the vote during the election, the first time the continent has voted since 2019.
Of course, the French are revolting (“Always have been, dear heart” murmurs Mr. Free Market) as their collective temper has a hair-trigger at the best of times. Hell, I remember a time when the loss of an international rugby match got ten thousand angry Frogs parading around the Parc des Princes stadium, screaming “Demission au selecteurs!”
So it can hardly come as a surprise that the Frog Commies would be the first to lose their shit, just at the possibility that their “progressive” agenda may be interrupted by the will of the people. (Note that it’s only a possibility; I’ve read the National Rally’s manifesto and it sounds like something JFK’s Ted Sorenson might have written.)
It makes the prospect of a Trump electoral victory in November all the more inviting, dunnit?
Papieren, Bitte
…or however they say it in French. This story made me howl with laughter, although I still think the paras should just have turned their little Fairburn-Sykes stickers on the bureaucrats.
If they’re still allowed to carry them, that is.
I see that the above is actually a replica, the FOX Fairbairn-Sykes FX-5934. I love Fox knives, already have their 685 bush knife, and now I want this one really badly.
If anybody else is interested (and who wouldn’t be?) it’s apparently on sale here (as above) and here (in “tactical” black).