What the fuck is going on in France? They’re supposed to be cleaning the place up and getting ready for the Brits who will be arriving shortly in the same kind of numbers as the Normandy landing, but every day through August, as they take the kids for some sunshine and baguettes whilst they sip Bordeaux and Cab. Sauv, in the shade and load up their cholesterol levels with their annual cheese-binge.

But instead they’re setting fire to the place, burning cars, rioting, protesting, making a lot of noise and generally causing great unpleasantness all around. And for what?

Well, that’s the question. Ostensibly its about the killing of a 17 year old boy. But really, that’s just become a catalyst, a fuse, igniting long-standing malaise and dissatisfaction into a mass ‘je deteste France’ movement. The country, the government, the President, the police, the whole lot. Pretty much ‘everything French’. Which really brings those Frogs in line with the rest of the world, thinking-wise.

But the problems are many. Everyone hates Macron. Understandable. He wants them to delay retirement by pushing pensions further away. And there’s nothing the average French person loves more than work avoidance.
Other than perhaps shagging the wives of others. And the social problems they have there are difficult. And never more so than when the police shoot a kid in a car who, judging by the news film, was no ‘threat’ whatsoever to the shooter. The kid in question was of Algerian descent, thus the shooting was racially motivated, even if it wasn’t.

You should never give a gun to a Frenchman. A white flag, sure, but a gun? And in the banlieues, the hi-rise suburbs, over-crowded with high immigrant populations, the police are expecting trouble. And will consequently always find it. And that immigrant population, mainly from north Africa, arrived looking for a ‘better life’. And they were housed and fed and clothed by a resentful indigenous population because most were from French colonies with a ‘right to entry’. But there was no ‘right’ to go straight to the middle classes. And that’s possibly where the trouble starts.

They need another revolution. One’s never enough.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx