We are on the final leg of the UK General Election when voters go to the polls on July 4 and the eve of the first phase of the French General Election. The first United States Presidential Debate just aired on Thursday, 27 June creating the kind of drama only the Americans excel at. What ties these three elections together is a tremendous sense of fatigue and hopelessness, a visceral fear of societies unravelling – no one in the sane centre knows who or what to vote for.
To get the melodrama out of the way, the Democratic base got a rude shock with the first Presidential debate as Joe Biden’s rather sad state of mind became all too clear. The persistent questions about his cognitive ability – repeatedly dismissed by a compliant media and a White House administration contemptuous of its voters’ intelligence- were answered. The most important question that follows has not been asked by a media in a state of panic after the debacle: If this is Biden, who’s been running the country? Jill Biden? Barack Obama? White House interns? CAIR? A random trans drag star? The Biden inner circle who even now deny his lack of capacity surely know how weak and confused he is, and the inescapable conclusion is that they must prefer it that way. The most powerful nation in the free world has shadowy unknown and unelected figures running it and the American people are facing one of the biggest cons in their history. They dont seem to have woken up to the implications yet, such is the fear of democracy being cancelled by Trump. The irony.
There are indications that Biden may be thrown under the bus and a new candidate – please, dear God, not Kamala Harris!- may still be rolled out. Michelle Obama (the hamasniks will like her), Hillary Clinton (the far left knows she has the ruthlessness to cut them off at their knees) or that dippy governor from California? Which of them has the strongest chance against Trump?
France goes to snap legislative polls tomorrow and that country is as polarised as the United States. Macron has warned that a civil war will may erupt if either the far¹ right, currently leading at 37% or the far left (28%) win. He himself has vowed to remain in office until his term ends in 2027. The French have spectacular form for street protests, riots and police brutality in reaction. They also have an exquisitely French sense of timing because all this will kick off before the Summer Olympics. The French Interior Minister banned some ultra right groups as well as radical islamist organisations a couple of days ago on Wed. There were complaints that there were known far left extremists who haven’t faced such bans.
Nous venons de dissoudre des associations d’ultra-droite, dont le GUD, et d’islamistes radicaux en Conseil des ministres. La haine des extrêmes doit être combattue par la République. Merci aux services du ministère de l’Interieur pour le travail d’enquête.
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) June 26, 2024
In the UK, there is overwhelming consensus by polling agents, the media we have all come to love and trust so much as well as political commentators that a Labour victory is a foregone conclusion. Labour will do as the Biden admin did and destroy a century’s progress in women’s rights by centering the gender confused of the middle class in new legislation. They will offer an amnesty of sorts for illegal migrants. They will er, faff around with the economy and the NHS. The police will get worse. The civil service will not be accusing any Labour minister of bullying while sobbing into the TV cameras. There was a complaint below the line that a forensic analysis of Labour’s nefarious plans for the country was missing in HP. The general feeling is that not even Labour supporters are enthused about their forthcoming win and quite frankly, the rest of the country will just hunker down until the nightmare is over.
- It is a sign of the crazy times we live in that a far right party started by a neo-nazi has evolved or detoxified to such an extent that its young leader Jordan Bardella now accuses the far left, La France Insoumise (LFI) of being irredeemably antisemitic. There is weight to these accusations as this Le Monde article acknowledges the damage control by the new left alliance.
