So, what happened in the French legislative elections yesterday? How did Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, the big winner in the first round, having obtained nearly one-third of the votes cast, end up limping over the finish line in third place behind the Left/far-Left New Popular Front alliance of Jean-Luc Mélenchon?
The solution to this riddle is to be found in the tacit electoral pact between Mélenchon’s alliance and French President Emmanuel Macron’s ostensibly ‘centrist’ alliance, which I discussed in my last article here, and the peculiarities of France’s electoral system.
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It’s like the civil service, local government and the EU. These people (yes these people) are rewarded for building empires, overspending on budgets and creating waste. We have seen how the civil service do want they want, not what they have been directed to do, or what their mission demands, a good case in point being the miss-named Border Force. Meanwhile the taxpayer is landed with an ever growing tax bill and longer waits for treatment or appointments. The social contract is well and truly broken. Beyond repair.
Re Stop Press, I have never understood why the NHS has not set up its own locum services, if necessary paying locum staff exactly the same as the private sector but ploughing the profits back into the NHS. It would at the very least drive the private services to drop prices or disappear from the market place.
Does hark back to “Yes, Minister”.
The perfect hospital with no patients.
A prescient series in so many ways.
This is a consequence of the Equality Act. The Government could stop it tomorrow by repealing, or at the very least, amending the Act.
But it won’t. It’s terrified of the Twitterati, the BBC and the assorted woke virtue-signallers who infest the Establishment.