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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“Top Gear’s Britain no longer exists”
It’s no wonder – most children’s experience of the motorcar is of traffic jams and a stressed out and vacant mum/dad on the school run.
Couple this with an entire generation of teachers who are unwittingly pushing the climate change scam and hatred of all things involving energy and fun, and all you get is a sad, uninspired, lethargic, apathetic, smartphone-obsessed youth.
And that’s before we get on to the impact of the callous, murderous lockdowns…
When I were a lad, motorbikes and sports cars passing the school gates would elicit a frenzy of excitement from boys and girls alike. The thrill of speed (and the potential for it), even experienced second hand, was palpable.
Until recently, I was commuting every day in north Leeds on a Kawasaki and would pass schools much like my own. I rarely received even a glance, never mind a demand for revs with the clutch disengaged, just to piss off Miss!
Zombies, the lot of them. Quite depressing.
We’re in France these days. The 50 and 125cc motos are alive and well with “the youth”. Glorious 2-stroke! I’ll be happy to see our own two little fighters riding them soon.
Italian youth still pretty keen on motorscooters too.
I imagine there’s an element of truth to the article, but where I live pretty much everyone learns to drive as soon as they can and gets access to a car, and young men are still wanting to drive fast and buy silly souped-up Vauxhall Corsas. But then I live in a market town surrounded by countryside, not a city. We used to live in London and lots of kids didn’t bother with cars, which is understandable as they cost a fortune and are honestly not that useful in London most of the time.
Spoke to someone from Wales.
Compares driving in Wales like driving in a funeral procession…
A significant minority here drive exceeding the 20 limits and quite a few deliberately break what would have been the previous 30 limit. Overtaking compliance zealots or those fearful of authority is up as are defacing and removal of the signs. And these include inappropriate 30 and 40 limits that have spung up in the last 5 years. Enough is enough !
Youth has always been dangerous, It’s in its very being! Trying to suffocate the rashness of youth will only ever lead to serious illegal actions or mental instability, it needs to vent itself naturally no matter the dangers!
I always ponder on how I ever made it to this age considering the dumb decisions I made in my teens, but ,that is the way youth HAS to be to learn.
The last term of school back in the seventies was a gloriously hot summer. Two local lads were working on the school roofs and both had long hair and rode Norton Commandos. They were a real inspiration to me and I headed down the road of motorbikes myself soon after I left. Still love old British machinery. Well, Italian and German machinery too but must be old. Not at all moved by modern stuff – it may be fast and loud and have exceptional brakes etc but they’re ugly machines and have no soul and I think that’s it. Our generation’s machinery had soul – electrics and mechanics (maybe electronic ignition!) and that was it!
“Covid hasn’t gone away – we’re still shielding three years on”
So other viruses are not a problem then? And this problem has suddenly appeared due to Covid? I think it can be tough for some people, such as people on chemo who have compromised immune systems. But surely it has always been a problem, and always will be a problem – that is until medical research comes up with a way to boost peoples immune system to treat these things, which I think it is. Whatever, the answer, locking down society ain’t the answer.
Logged in to say this too. These poor people would have been shielding no matter what – or should have been if the advice they’re given is consistent. Receiving abuse in the street for wearing a mask is odious, but if he’s wearing one of those supermarket scraps of plastic that people call ‘surgical’ masks it’s essentially useless.
The point is it’s him and his family who have a very unfortunate problem. What does he want the rest of society to do apart from offer sympathy? It’s not a reason to close down the rest of society.
Check out this for evidence of the damage done by the covid pushers:
(1) Not a lifestyle competition, but a shared vision (reddit.com)
I personally wouldn’t choose to have a go at mask wearers but certainly any of them who are NOT genuinely vulnerable but are just virtue signalling probably should be shamed because if we ever get covid or similar restrictions back it is those people who will be in the vanguard.
I sidestep them. Ostentatiously.
And I’m not sure Mr Boxall’s poor wife is getting much benefit from her seven vaccines either.
And hiding yourself away for the rest of your life, is no way of living in my book.
Allow a surgeon to state his case on masking up…
A big part of the problem is how gas-lighted people have been – and still are being – into believing they are vulnerable and therefore must hide away from society without being given the full facts. For instance, Prof Angus Dalgleish, in his discussion with John Campbell, explains how some of his long-term melanoma patients were ok when exposed to “Covid” because their immune systems had been boosted by the immune-enhancing therapy he administers to such patients. We should all be better informed about our vulnerabilities and the risks – as well as the potential treatments. For example, the problem for many Covid patients is not the viral infection in our airways but the pneumonia that follows and timely treatment with Vit C, antibiotics, etc is then needed. So many of us have been fooled into thinking the medical establishment has our best interests at heart when the reality is that most in the NHS don’t think to question what they are told (and that is limited to looking for a “disease” and prescribing a pharmaceutical). The current situation where people are being encouraged to take “boosters” that are damaging their immune systems and encouraging turbo-cancers is criminal and those administering them have no excuse for killing people.
….my friend, who is a cancer survivor, as part of her long-term regime, has also been prescribed Vit D for quite a while, which also helps.
I have said this before, but like everything with Convid, a lot of it seems to be based on very little evidence, and a lot of assumption. Where exactly are the studies showing that Convid is worse for the immuno-compromised…and exactly how much worse is it..if at all?
As we have know for a very long time now, Convid is something like flu, in so much as it’s much worse for the very elderly and very poorly…but for everyone else … not so much…
….was all this palaver going on all the time for flu?…and if not, why are they doing it now?
This is an awfully sad article..and I would say that all three of them are suffering more from mental illness than actual physical illness….I don’t know what they actually think anyone can do for them…?
My friend is also a cancer survivor, the second time having been treated during Convid ..she’s unvaxxed and getting on with life….as are many other cancer survivors…the fact that this man’s wife isn’t is not anyone else’s fault…
..and I can’t see any reason for his daughter, who has cerebral palsy, to be any more prone to Covid than anyone else?
I suspect more than anything that the massive Government/MSM Psy-ops has done its job.
“How Hamas-supporting medics are lurking within our NHS”
So what would happen if the Palistinian doctor/nurse had to treat a British Jewish patient? With such unhidden hatred, I wouldn’t want to be that patient! Welcome to the all encompassing and successful multiculturalist modern Britain!
So what would happen if the Palistinian doctor/nurse had to treat a British Jewish patient?
For that matter what would happen if they had to treat an Israeli Jewish patient?
In the olden days, before the plandemic revealed the deeply corrupt nature of medicine, I would have said that medical staff would have put their Hippocratic Oath first and treated according to need, not race, creed, colour or belief. I’m sure many still do. But given how some revealed their prejudices against the unvaxxed/unmasked – and were given carte blanche to do so – now I’m not so sure….
I can’t go along with this entirely as it conflates two entirely separate thing in my opinion. I think that illegal immigration is one thing…but in answer I would say..
…presumably the same thing that would happen as if a Jewish doctor was treating an Arab or Palestinian patient…or a Russian doctor was treating a Ukrainian, or a Chinese doctor was treating an American patient?
…what on earth is the basis for this nonsense? Have we had a spate of doctors killing their patients because of nationality or religion that I’m unaware of??
Fair point, but we may not be aware of the more subtle interactions between doctors with a bias veiw and patients!
We are only human after all!
‘Luton airport fire’
Something doesn’t add up!
-The fire was clearly on the top, outside level
-the culprit car was on the level below with at least 10″ of concrete between it and the top level
-the culprit car was in the middle of the access road, not in a parking bay
– the culprit car was a diesel range rover which seemed to burn like a petrol car or ev would, but generally not like diesel does! which is ‘combustible’ not ‘flammable’
– no sprinkler systems in a new car park?
Just a little puzzled!
My idea is the upper floor was already ablaze due to the source of the fire, then someone came back to their car to find this ongoing situation and tried to get their already burning vehicle out of the danger area only to get one level down before realising it was hopeless and abandoning their car in the middle of the access road.
Then the fire above caused the the partial collapse afterwards.
“U.K. Technology Minister holds urgent meeting on violent content”
Cue even MORE censorship…..
Findings from Monday’s World Council for Health emergency conference:
https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/wch-expert-panel-finds-cancer-promoting
“Findings from Monday’s World Council for Health emergency conference:
Bacterial DNA (plasmids) has been found in mRNA vaccine vials.”
This blows the bloody roof off!
Many thanks for posting.
Ta. The conference is worth watching especially McKernan’s brilliant segment, once they’ve spliced up each presentation (the whole thing was 4 hours).
👍👍
But we knew this already. It’s been talked about at length on here. It also won’t make a blind bit of difference as we know the stuff will not get removed from the market. Now had there been contamination found in any type of food product they’d all be recalled right away because food manufacturers don’t enjoy the same luxury of indemnity from liability that Big Pharma does. The latter evidently have carte blanche to harm us whilst making mega profits.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-todays-philanthropists-dont-cut-the-mustard/
And this provides an interesting adjunct to the above.
LOL…somebody inform the Nobel Prize Committee…STAT!!
Can I just ask the question that must be on everybody’s lips?
Who gives a flying f**k what Gary Lineker or Emma Thomson think about… ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING?…
I have to agree. The less we see and hear of these degenerates the better, particularly that tax leech Lineker.
Oooh, but Lineker is an award winning human rights commentator, doncha know, and Thomson is….is…. Nanny McPhee!
😀😀😀
Is the point not that we do want to see their hypocrisy exposed – because the resulting humiliation might shut them up in the future?
I, for one, enjoyed Emma Thompson trying to justify flying back from LA in first class in order to attend an Extinction Rebellion protest. “I’m in the very fortunate position of being able to offset my carbon footprint, but most people can’t.” – she argued.
I would never spoil anyone else’s fun..if that is what floats your boat, as they say.
…but for myself, I’m pretty sure I know exactly what they are going to say, and about what..and I’d rather poke sticks in my eyes than give them the satisfaction of looking like I gave two flucks …LOL!!
In BBC world, stating a plain fact can be seen as partial, it seems…
So..as far as I can see it’s the story of Covid throughout the world from day one??
…and the end of the article?? Get boosted!! LOL!
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/older-adults-make-thirds-covid-hospitalizations-year-cdc/story?id=103749710
5th October 2023..
Adults aged 65 and older made up 62.9% of all COVID-19-associated hospitalizations between January and August 2023, a report published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found..
During the week ending Aug. 26, the hospitalization rates for those 65 and older was 16.4 per 100,000, which is nine times higher than the rate for adults aged 18 to 64 and 16 times higher than the rate for those under age 18.
Hospitalization rates were highest among adults aged 85 and older at 42.2 per 100,000 and lowest among those aged 65 to 74 at 8.6 per 100,000.
Senior citizens also accounted for 61.3% of admissions to the intensive care unit and 87.9% of in-hospital COVID deaths in the first half of 2023, the report said. There were no statistically significant differences when it came to subgroups of patients in this age bracket.
Data showed nearly all adults aged 65 and older — 98.5% — had at least one underlying condition, and 90.3% had two or more conditions, including diabetes, kidney disorders, coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure and obesity.
After adjusting for factors including age, sex, and race or ethnicity, senior citizens with two or more underlying conditions were at four times greater risk of hospitalization.
COVID-19–associated hospitalisations continue to predominantly affect adults aged ≥65 years