The French election has been framed as a significant defeat for Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party. The BBC’s Paul Kirby in an article titled ‘What just happened in France’s shock election?‘ explained:
Nobody expected this. High drama, for sure, but this was a shock.
When the graphics flashed up on all the big French channels, it was not the far Right of Marine Le Pen and her young Prime Minister-in-waiting Jordan Bardella who were on course for victory.
It was the Left who had clinched it, and Emmanuel Macron’s centrists – the Ensemble alliance – had staged an unexpected comeback, pushing the far-Right National Rally (RN) into third.
Of course, the BBC wasn’t alone in proclaiming the second round an unexpected victory for the far-Left, Left and centrists over the forces of the “Right”, sorry, the “far Right”, as I must get used to calling any party without an open borders policy.
Likewise, the Telegraph described how:
National Rally had been beaten by a ragtag alliance called the New Popular Front – comprising Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s hard-Left France Unbowed, Communists, Greens and Socialists.
But even more humiliatingly Le Pen’s party appeared to have been beaten by Mr. Macron’s centrist Together alliance, which polls had predicted would founder in third place.
However, for anyone with even a passing familiarity with French politics this was exactly the outcome we’d expected. It wasn’t a shock. The Leftist alliance didn’t stage an unexpected comeback. And Le Pen’s party wasn’t beaten into third place by Macron’s centrist Together alliance. To understand the consequences in terms of Parliamentary seats Robert Kogon’s recent Daily Sceptic article explains the vagaries of the outcome very succinctly. However, I thought a look at how and why the election is misreported would be of interest.
Of course, regular readers of the Daily Sceptic will be familiar with this tactic of the mainstream media (MSM). Set up a false position. See the false position not come about. Declare a disaster for the person or party you wish to smear. In this case, the MSM set up the position that Le Pen would win the second round of the French elections. An outcome that, once it was clear that Macron had done a deal with Mélenchon – and it was always inevitable that he would do a deal – then Le Pen couldn’t win.
Let’s look at the actual data rather than rely on the BBC’s in-house analysis.
Somewhat surprisingly, Le Pen’s RN Party saw the largest second-round percentage increase in its vote share of any of the political parties or groupings.
Mélenchon’s Left Alliance lost 2.4% in vote share while RN’s share increased by 3.8%, not an outcome you would have guessed from the BBC.
In terms of total votes cast, all the parties and groupings saw fewer votes cast in their favour in round two in comparison to round one. In fact almost 4.8 million Frenchmen who had voted in the first round didn’t vote in the second round. So much for Macron mobilising the forces of democracy!
As can be seen in Figure 2, the Left Alliance lost over two million voters between rounds one and two. This was not a victory for any thing other than the voting system designed to do what it did: prevent (Right-wing) populists getting near the levers of power.
Self-evidently, this wasn’t a rout of the Right. So why is it presented as such? Well, we all know the answer to that one: the ‘Establishment’ wants to frame the “far Right” as a threat. A threat that can only be defeated by the plucky voters of France coming together to see them off. The wish is to show the Right suffering a defeat. It’s exactly the same tactic as we saw the BBC adopt in choosing a Question Time audience devoid of Reform supporters. Or Channel 4 in its use of highly questionable tactics to smear Reform. Take your pick: Andrew Tate, Russell Brand, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Nigel Farage, each framed as a threat to “good order”.
One of the things that we plebs learnt from the Covid pantomime is to never accept any news story at face value. It’s often relatively easy to find the data that allow you to answer that nagging question that comes to mind after any BBC news item: “Am I being taken for a fool?”
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So there are people who really believed that waste, carefully sorted into the appropriate recycle bin, wasn’t just dumped on the trash pile with all the other rubbish.
There isn’t a market to re-use all the recycling that we do. Thats why cardboard recycling bins have disappeared from many supermarkets and we send plastic to be buried in holes in Romania and China, and burn the rest. Meanwhile everything you buy is dramatically over packed, especially food. All that work to save the planet, wasted. It did sound good, and lots of people self-esteem grew at the thought that washing out bean tins was actually achieving something…
..one of my favourites…swedes wrapped in plastic!!?
..yes, you have to wonder why a lot of people don’t think, at all, beyond the ‘message’
..they seem to be baffled by the slightest thing…
..besides just being interested in stuff……it’s like natural curiosity has practically disappeared…
“‘We should celebrate healthy young women cutting off their breasts?’
Should we celebrate bulemics..? Or self harmers. Not every humans actions should be celebrated. In the whole ‘Be Kind’ thing, we have lost the sense of the boundaries of socially acceptability. Where is the shame? Where is the stigma..? Wrongly translated into ‘hate’, thats where.
There are many girls around the world eager to go through the pain of genital “cutting” in order to fulfill their true identity as members of their culture… the hypocrisy of our elites in condemning that and yet performing far greater mutilation AND lifelong medication against the true values of the culture (as represented by parents) is reprehensible.
“Council effectively bankrupt after losing millions to solar farm cheat”
Why do bureaucrats think they can run businesses. Bins and pot-holes are the limit of what we should let them get involved with.
“The Prime Minister is finding out it’s not easy being green”
For sure the push back on ‘green’ is going to be difficult. It has become embedded in many peoples thinking, and its sudden collapse as it hits reality will be hard to take.
However, continuing on with it, when it can now be seen as and expensive and useless folly is by far the more difficult. This is when a Government needs a leader with balls. Its not Sunak, and its not Starmer.
This is precisely why I’ve never understood anybody who likes Trump. 2mins of why the guy is an absolute bloody tosser.
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1686546354993238016
He was rubbish on covid and failed to build the wall. Flaky. But waaaay better than Clinton would have been or Biden has been. I know that’s not saying much. I wouldn’t say I “like” him but he represented a departure from the uniparty politics of recent decades in the US. I think that was a pretty important step for them. He executed poorly because of his character flaws. I would much rather see De Santis get the nod and become POTUS but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen, at least not this time. Trump appeals to voters. I would take him any day of the week against whoever runs for the Dems.
Well unlike yourself and others, ”Never forgive, never forget” means something to me and works across the board, no concessions. And if you are a leader of a country and have the final say so on making drastic decisions that will irreparably ( in many cases ) change or ruin millions of lives, then you get to take accountability for your actions and take the fall for that. No wriggling off the hook, no excuses, it was your call. Sweden held strong, why couldn’t Trump? Why couldn’t Johnson? Anyone minimizing the extent of the damage these f*ckwits have done or giving them an excuse when the buck stopped with them is part of the problem. I will never stop holding the various leaders responsible for their crimes against humanity. it really is as black and white as that as far as I’m concerned.
I’m not sure I am making much of a concession. I don’t know how I’d vote were I to be in the US and he was the Republican choice. Tricky one. Certainly his performance on covid was reprehensible. I was just pointing out why people “like” him.
Does that include Robert F Kennedy Jr?
Good question
I don’t know enough to say and his party is a huge source of damage to our civilisation but he deserves a very close look for sure
…he’s a perfect example of what I am saying….he is good on so many issues …..but is now taking a great deal of flack after appearing on a programme with a (not my words) rabidly pro-Israeli commentator…where RFK said he backed Israel completely and made a comment to the effect of …Israel only attack military targets..never civilians…
As you can imagine this has not gone down well with a lot of people….
As I said..we often have to choose the ‘least bad’ option….!?
There’s never a perfect option
The Tories have crossed many lines for me with Covid, net zero and mass immigration so they no longer meet minimum standards, JFK and Trump might
I don’t like Trump as a person – he is a narcissist and misogynistic, among a number of major character flaws. And the video you posted demonstrates his narcissism very well – he just can’t admit that he got it hugely wrong on the vaccines. But so have millions of others – you and I personally know supposedly intelligent people who still believe the vaccines saved millions of lives.
I do think he has many qualities that make him a potentially very good President. He is strong on law and order, the economy, energy, immigration, woke stuff, free speech, anti-war – he genuinely (IMO) wants to make America great again and cares about making lives better. He also has the proverbial balls to take on the Establishment (including the Deep State and military industrial complex), which is a clear and present danger to us all.
There are no amount of redeeming features that can ever negate what that man did once he gave the go-ahead to lock down his country, deprive kids of education and social contact, ruin small businesses and on and on the list goes…Then the infamous ”Operation Warp Speed”. It must be a nice fact that keeps him warm at night knowing he’s killed more Americans than the Vietnam war ever did. Zero forgiveness, that man has a LOT of blood on his hands, but evidently America is full of people suffering Stockholm Syndrome.
On lockdowns, I read your separate post about Michael Senger’s excellent piece, in which he says:
“[The view of the response to COVID as having been driven primarily by the western intelligence community] explains why some leaders like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson who weren’t initially keen on lockdowns have always seemed so confused; it seems the information they were being fed by the intelligence community on COVID may have been deliberately misleading.”
He was clearly very reluctant to support lockdown but came under huge psychological pressure to recommend them. I am not sure that, in his position, I could have withstood that initial pressure (from all his advisers) to advocate lockdowns.
Also, on both lockdowns and vaccines, he was not making the final call and therefore does not technically have “blood on his hands”. Decisions on lockdowns and vaccine roll-outs were made by the governors of individual states. He was a lame-duck President in any case (having “lost” the 2020 election in November 2020) by the time the vaccines were rolled out and given their authorisations by the FDA etc.
As I said, Sweden stood their ground, so why couldn’t others? Just sounds to me like you and others are very keen in cutting Trump some slack and allowing him to wriggle off the hook. As long as he ticks boxes in other areas all will be over-looked and forgotten, eh? And I suppose Trump bears no responsibility for putting Fauci front and centre of the Covid response, giving the man a worldwide platform and elevating him to international God-like status? Yep, totally out of Trump’s hands, he was evidently completely powerless..
“And if you are a leader of a country and have the final say so on making drastic decisions that will irreparably ( in many cases ) change or ruin millions of lives, then you get to take accountability for your actions and take the fall for that.”
I hear what you say, but Trump did not have the final say on lockdowns or vaccine roll-out and he did not impose any vaccine mandates – unlike Biden. If you were to discuss greater evils, there is no doubt that the federally imposed (by Biden) vaccine mandates on public sector employees (and employees in supply chains serving US Government contracts) was much more evil than Trump’s advocacy (but not imposing) of lockdowns and vaccines.
I’m not arguing against what you are saying, but the reality is the usual choice..who is the ‘least bad’….?
That is what they are now faced with in America…(and everywhere)..
Biden was no better, and in my opinion much worse than Trump..and he didn’t overturn anything..which he could have done?
which of course doesn’t excuse Trump….….
but if everyone is in the mire…I agree with TOF, you have to look at the one that might do something about other stuff you care about….
Just the sad reality of the situation I suppose….
Must admit I’d be backing DeSantis !
Do you think he has the balls to take on the Establishment? He may even be part of the Establishment…
He is Establishment.. he’s 100% under the control of the Jewish lobby and does what he’s told.. end of!
‘removing the tap handle’ – some sort of euphemism?
Like it
Bud can’t get much lower, cheating and lieing to customers just to get rid of the weak fizzy p!ss
Excellent piece here about how the Covid response was a coup all planned by the Western intelligence community. This illustrates precisely why any world leaders; Trump, Johnson, Micron, Turdeau, all of the tyrannical b’stards, should all be being tried for crimes against humanity and banged to rights for what they did, the damage they caused, the lives they are responsible for ruining, all dressed up as their lockstepped ”Covid Response”, and yet free and entitled they will all remain because they’re untouchable.
”The response to COVID was one of the greatest peacetime policy catastrophes in history, shredding America’s international credibility, robbing children of years of their youth and education, killing millions, throwing hundreds of millions into poverty, costing billions of life years, and transferring trillions in wealth from workers to billionaires, all for nothing. That this illiberalism emanated directly from the western intelligence community explains how a catastrophe of such magnitude was able to take place.
Most of all, that the western intelligence community drove the illiberalism of the response to COVID explains why the corruption and inhumanity of that response have always seemed so obvious, with the most valuable information on the events in question often coming from leading officials’ own books and interviews, despite how much harm they caused. They’re able to operate with such impunity because they know that the only agencies that can hold them accountable are the ones behind the whole spectacle. The propaganda is obvious, and it’s meant to be.”
https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/the-unwitting-coup-was-the-response
A very good post MOG..
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66376464
Margaret Ferrier took a PCR test because she had a tickly throat. In displaying such stupidity she clearly disbarred herself from the rest of the stupids in Westminster. Absolutely correct in her decision not to stand again.
The Telegraph’s failure to properly report the corruption of the 2020 Presidential Election and the Covid/Vax scam was the reason I cancelled my subscription.
Looks like yet again, it goes with the flow and ignore the mountains of evidence of ballot rigging, dodgy voting machines, counting halted in the middle of the night, zero signature verification, Zuckerbucks, Chinese interference, suppression of Hunter’s laptop story.
Cowardly, crooked journalism.
Well said, NOW. I did the same for the same reasons, and also with The Spectator.
I call B.S. What we learned was that the virus affected the elderly and the vulnerable in almost exactly the same proportions as most respiratory diseases – that is to say those closest to death were most likely to die. Unlike, say, in epidemics of Ebola which is so deadly it kills old and young alike.
To try to be fair, Professor Karol Sikora (the author) does go on to point out that all but a few unfortunate kids were more-or-less unaffected by the damned bug and to excoriate the lockdown policies and their proponents.
Here’s a chart showing the percentage of all-cause deaths (expressed as rates) that were registered in England and Wales Jan 2010 – May 2023.
Note the terrible disruption to the pattern around April 2020… Oh wait. there wasn’t one.
If you are old you’re more likely to die than someone younger.
Another “vaccine” scam incoming for a ‘viral’ disease which isn’t caused by a virus…. (Check the work of Kevin Corbett, Celia Farber & Cary Mullis for this little scam)
Be warned – another pharma product one doesn’t need.
https://jp.weforum.org/videos/england-is-aiming-to-beat-hiv-by-2030
Evidence from Pfizer’s own documentation of the presence of graphene oxide in the covid bioweapon injections, despite all the denials made refuting this assertion.
One of the most recent documents published by the FDA confirms the use of Graphene Oxide in the manufacturing process of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. Proving that medicine regulators the mainstream media, Fact Checkers and Pfizer have all been lying to you.
Article: https://theleadingreport.com/2023/07/06/secret-documents-reveal-pfizer-fda-fact-checkers-lied-about-toxic-graphene-oxide-inside-the-covid-19-vaccines-2/
Document: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/125742_S1_M4_4.2.1-vr-vtr-10741.pdf
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We’re the immunocompromised at a higher risk from Covid 19?
This new (limited) study concludes that …”The odds ratio for mortality was 0.66 for immunocompromised and 0.38 for immunocompetent patients in the fourth wave.”
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230205/New-research-examines-how-COVID-19-affects-immune-compromised-people.aspx
Great…. More of our money being wasted on a surveillance system to further control & contain us whilst simultaneously zapping us with health harming EMF radiation…
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/40-million-fund-launched-to-unlock-5g-benefits-across-the-uk
What a complete waste of our money. Again.
Excellent conversation between Mads Palsvig & Alex Krainer yesterday evening on the financial system & geopolitics. A really important topic for us to understand – as Mads said yesterday, until 3 years ago he knew nothing about medicine but it was vital that he learn! Learning about how the financial system is abused by the parasite class to steak wealth from a country & its people is important.
https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
“Why is Costa celebrating top surgery?” – The corporate world has been captured by trans ideology, says James Esses in Spiked.
How is the euphemistically named ‘top surgery‘ significantly different from the widely condemned FGM?