Across the ditch, the "love the people" shtick begins

There are two main topics over at NOWP 386:1 ... the BBC schemozzle, plus Micron of course.

Looking at Micron first:

On April 17, Emmanuel Macron announced the start of “a hundred days of appeasement”, intended to heal the fractures in French society after the pension reform. A journey strewn with pitfalls, with a more than uncertain outcome.

So, entangled in the political slump caused by the pension reform, the head of state needed a new lease of life. Since January, opponents of pension reform, by the millions, had pounded the pavement. After a reform adopted in Parliament by force, thanks to article 49-3, the social pressure cooker does not seem to be going down.

At the end, Emmanuel Macron is trying to turn a page and open a new political “sequence”: he announces the start of “a hundred days of appeasement”, intended to mend the fractures of French society and breathe new life into its mandate.

The Head of State wants to flee inaction, “no immobility”. He sends his ministers to criss-cross France, multiply announcements, promote government action loud and clear.

What to take from that?  Well firstly, for me, the utter cynicism by the "oppress by the manual" globohonchos "advising" him, from their drawing rooms, secure in their safety and reaching for their Alinsky, Machiavelli and other manuals, in that most Teutonic way or perhaps referring, Clemenceau like, to the superior elan of the French ... Micron leaning fwd eagerly lapping it up ...

And they say get out there, meet the people, they'll forget all their woes, show yourself ... their leader of action in your finery ... the people lap up pageantry and the leader deigning to sort of acknowledge them ... being of superior caste to the French, he need not do so of course, except to avert revolution.

And sadly, so many French and every other western nationality caught up in celeb culture do lap up "attention" ... I met one yesterday who was secure in the knowledge that Rishi's doing well, that the ship of state is in good hands ... at precisely the same time he spoke of his wife's operation postponed, plus the phone call from the company denying all responsibility for the accident, he having to work two jobs to make the mortgage repayment, even though Rishi has kept rates so low ... I didn't want to hear any more.

Desperate for things "to be all right", even though they clearly were not ... at this point, a black straight from Africa and a deathculter came by. The first walked arrogantly straight through us, the second stepped around the parked cars onto the road, giving us a wide berth. A third came by, indeterminate but face in a snarl ... big boy, a fighter, must have been from the hostel ... crossed the road to the other side.

Would that I were inventing that for dramatic effect but that was precisely how it happened within about ten minutes flat.

Back to the French ... you know my fear? That they'll all go home later in great excitement ... guess who walked by close to me today? Oh he looked ever so handsome.

As for that BBC paedo or gay, jury's apparently still out at N.O., I'm not personally bothering wi'it ... ah yes, the great sympathy card from the Beeb for the poor soul with mental aberrations.

Meanwhile the slaughter goes on in the Ukraine, paid for, ultimately, by ordinary westerners like you and me.