posted by Le Vieux Pet, 6 October 2025
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Today France’s latest prime minister Sébastien Lecornu, having entered the quickly revolving door of the The Palais Bourbon, meeting place of the National Assembly only was unceremoniously ejected like some hapless cartoon character when the Assembly refused to approve his government appointments. Lecornu handed his resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Monday after just 27 days in the role.
His announcement came hours after unveiling his cabinet, plunging the country into fresh political chaos and leaving it without a budget for he next financial year. President Macron accepted the resignation of his seventh prime minister on Monday morning, making Mr Lecornu, 39, the shortest-lived government chief in modern French political history.
French politics has been in disarray since Mr Macron’s ill-advised gamble to call a snap poll last year, which ended in a hung parliament and has resulted in the nation becoming ungovernable.Pressure is now piling on the globalist president to call fresh snap elections or step down two years before the end of his second five-year term, tgus precipitating a presidential election which would almost certainly be won by a nationalist of the right or left, either result being unacceptable to the European Union.
Appointed last month, M. Lecornu had faced the formidable task of cobbling together a consensus in a deeply divided parliament for an austerity budget for next year. Earlier this year,Francois Bayrou and Michel Barnier were ousted by the National Assembly when they presented plans for a cost-cutting budget which were voted down by the Assembly.
Unfortunately the cabinet unveiled on Sunday afternoon by Lecornu cosisted largely of the same people as had been in the previous government, which sparked fierce criticism across the political spectrum. The return to the cabinet of Macron's ally Bruno Lemaire, as finance minister aroused particu;arly vitriolic responses. Rivals have dubbed Lemaire “the man who bankrupted France”.
France’s debt-to-GDP ratio is now the European Union’s third-highest after Greece and Italy, and is close to twice the 60 per cent permitted under EU rules. The deficit is heading for 5.4 per cent of GDP this year. To put it bluntly France is up that well known creek of brown, smelly stuff and not so much without a paddle as without a canoe.
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Despite this mess having been a long time in the making with Macron's time in office punctuated by protests and riots, the French people all vote for legacy parties ans more government spending. Even Le Pen's party offers only more of the same with only the promis that they would skew the overspend toward ethnic French and away from African and Middle Eastern minorities. The only truly libertarian, free market, fiscal responsibility policies are offered by micro parties on the fringes of French politics.
Macron has been the most gung - ho of western leaders about supporting and even escalating Ukraine's war with Russia in hopes of seeming presidential and rounding up enough support to get a coalition and excuse to do the hard things, like increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, loosen the 32 hour workweek or whatever it is now, etc. War has always been the final resort of leaders who do not have a clue how to get out of the poo they landed themselves in.
In reality France is in no different a situation than every other major western nation all of which are now reaping the rewards of running their eonomies on debt for decades, yet the arrogance of elitist leaders causes them to refuse to address the realities on the ground. The west needs to immediately end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and in France's case the meddling North Africa (trade with those nations properly).
EU member states must be given back responsibility for their borders, Brussels - dictated policy having failed so disastrously, then all nations need to close their borders , end ALL migration by illegals, Round up all people living and working in a country illegally, (a 2020 estimate by the Independent newspaper of people living in Britain illegally put the number between 3 and 7 million - 5 to 10 percent more than the legal population,) and throw them out or gulag them if no one will take them. That may be brutal but it is the only way to deter future illegal immigration.
Of course none of this will happen since government NEEDS immigration to fuel population and GDP growth and thus justify its itself and claim some level of success for economic policies based on borrowing money and pumping it into the system via benefits, having exported far too much of the real economy to China and the far east. The reality is the common people need less war, less government, less illegals, and more control of their own lives.