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Corbyn:

Of course I didn't promise to let everyone with a student loan get away with paying it back..

Could have fooled the rest of us...

When I talked to my father about the election just passed his comment on Corby was "He should be had up for fraud". Sadly, whilst not arguing with the sentiment, reality prevents me from agreeing too strongly.

Macron:

I'm going to cut taxes. Oh yeah and I'm going to cut spending too so that I can cut the budget by €4.6bn and if you don't like it, Mr General, then you can walk.

10% of the popularity lost and still falling. Thud, was that the French just falling off the sofa and waking up? Crommers, you're going to love this journey. New party, New President, New Parliament with the new party as a Majority.

Same old story!

Can't wait for the strikes, the unrest, the demonstrations in the street. You don't need to be able to fool all of the people all of the time. Just when it matters!

I read somewhere that the Army chief who resigned was very much "old elite", aristocratic upper class, and therefore wouldn't exactly be on Macron's wavelength .....

Suff wrote:Macron:

I'm going to cut taxes. Oh yeah and I'm going to cut spending too so that I can cut the budget by €4.6bn and if you don't like it, Mr General, then you can walk.

10% of the popularity lost and still falling. Thud, was that the French just falling off the sofa and waking up? Crommers, you're going to love this journey. New party, New President, New Parliament with the new party as a Majority.

Same old story!

Well, Macron is very much an EU man and as such he is going to try and get France's budget deficit within EU rules, if I read the Sunday Telegraph correctly. OK so far, but.
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To do this he has to drastically cut public spending. One billion Euros from the defence budget. Cuts to education. "Reform" of labour laws. Making hundreds of thousands of French public sector workers redundant. Ouch.

Yes, his honeymoon is going to be short. Especially as his handling of the french General is seen as arrogant in the extreme. We've had our Tony Blair moment, America has had Obama. Both absolute holes in the air to me; all slogans and hot air. Maybe Macron will be France's Tony Blair.

I just feel sorry for all the ordinary French workers who are going to be thrown on the dole whilst being told at the same time that this is good for them.