National Rally leader Jordan Bardella has just made a speech seemingly accepting the exit poll. Lots of whining that everybody ganged up on him and the French people have been denied their wishes. #FrenchElection
So pleased with this response!
Kylian Mbappe spoke out a lot against the far right - bravo to him for putting his head above the parapet (and many others I’m not aware of)
All these years I heard it pronounced "Fehr-rehge" with a short 'a' and accent on the 1st syllable. Since when did it become "Fah-Rahge" with long 'a' and the accent on the 2nd syllable, like some kind of French designer handbag?
Right whingers are always claiming that the result means the election has somehow been stolen from them.
Oh, and throw in something about "will of the people".
If you're a "populist", lack of popularity must come as a bit of a shock.
Works for Trump and MAGAts too.
Something like 1 in 6 Americans favour Trump, and the polls are calculated on the basis that they underestimated his vote share in 2016 & 2020, so they've "adjusted" it this time around.
no logic at all, just like the conservatives telling women that they really don't want to choose how they live their life and what happens to their bodies
Amazing how these populists wave the flag and praise the great French/British/American/Italian/etc people as the greatest on earth till those same people give them a kicking and then they whine about how it’s all rigged against them and it’s not fair mummy boohoo it’s just not fair! Babies.
He sounded like an idiot spoilt kid, promised a new bike which he didn't get. I wonder how many pundits who in the last weeks wrote how idiotic Macron was will eat their words.
It never ceases to amaze me how easily some are drawn to the self-entitled whining and manufactured grievance that populists always offer in place of genuinely workable solutions.
