France To Crack Down On Unsanctioned Protests

[naomi24]

Will this work ... or ince the French never have been reluctant to take to the streets in protest, is the French government playing with fire and encouraging more social unrest?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46788751

[naomi24]

*since the French*

[Togo]

Playing with fire Naomi. Not only is the protest being ignored by the main stream media(as much as possible) but they have now decided that the result of a consultation, which itself was undertaken in response to the riots, is to be traduced.

""A national consultation in France, launched in response to protesters’ calls for more direct democracy, was denounced as having been “sabotaged” after citizens backed conservative policies.
Mainstream media networks over the weekend claimed the consultation had been “hijacked” by “militant conservative networks” after the initial results revealed a distinct lack of enthusiasm in France for progressive, globalist politics.
Journalist Vincent Glad, from the liberal-left newspaper Libération, highlighted that a proposal to repeal same-sex marriage had garnered the most approval, blasting the consultation as “a joke”.
“The ‘success’ of conservative motions is problematic,” complained state-owned France 24, noting that the other popular proposals included calls to scrap wind power subsidies and restore family allowances to middle-income couples with multiple children.
“For some, [the results] illustrate the dangers of Swiss-style direct democracy and the possible launch of a Citizen Initiated Referendum (RIC) demanded by many Yellow Vests,” it added, referring to a proposed initiative supported by 80 percent of the French public.
In a section asking whether the consultation results should be seen as “significant”, the broadcaster dismissed the more than 31,000-strong number of participants as “small” before insisting it was important to “relativise the ‘victory’ of the proposal to repeal [same-sex] marriage” because it was backed by “a minority” (19 percent) of citizens who took part.
The online consultation was launched by the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) of France in December, following weeks of protest by the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement against the rising cost of living and perceptions of an out-of-touch political elite.""

[spathiphyllum]

Will simply add fuel to the fire.

[douglas9401]

They've shrugged their shoulders and let the great unwashed vent their spleen pretty much unchecked for years.

Some wee dude in a smart suit and an over-inflated sense of self isn't getting that genie back into the lamp any time soon.

[Peter Pedant]

le monde
« La crise que Macron encaisse aujourd’hui se creuse depuis une vingtaine d’années » 5
Le discrédit envers les institutions que révèlent les « gilets jaunes » est le fruit de reniements successifs, et plusieurs coups de semonce auraient dû sonner l’alarme, estime, dans sa chronique, Gérard Courtois, éditorialiste au « Monde ».

Macron faces a crisis five years in the making
the disrespect towards zee ow u say institution of France come from years of denials which shoud have sounded an alarm .....

So nou-nou Courtois puts it all down to the recent nationalist - antiimmigration movement that is present in every country

Sorry Nigh a lot of this is in Forrin, and I know you dont do forrin

[Peter Pedant]

jojke coming up:
Nigh: I didnt understand a word of that ! its all greek to me!

[-Talbot-]

I wonder how this sort of thing would be dealt with under the United States of Europe?

[-Talbot-]

Nigh: I didnt understand a word of that ! its all greek to me!

With the odd spattering of English.

[Togo]

I see that Officer Crabtree has pooped up again.

[naomi24]

pp, //I know you dont do forrin //

Haha! How little you know! ;o)

[naomi24]

Togo, he's the man behind the curtain. :o)

[ummmm]

Why can't PP just type 'Naomi'? So daft!!

Like he calls 'Barmaid' Bam Bam....what the hell is that about?

[naomi24]

It's his pet name for me, Ummmm. He's my number one fan. Mentions me practically wherever he goes. ;o)

[-Talbot-]

I have no idea, Pebbles.

[ummmm]

Blinking annoying though :-D

[naomi24]

No problem to me, ummmm. I'm well aware that little things please little minds - and I so like people to be happy. :o)