To say a massive well done to the people of France...

[MrsBennetsPoorNerves]

For telling the far right National Rally to fuck off to the far side of fuck!!!

So relieved!

Great story.

She would not have been able to obtain a spousal visa to the UK at 14 years old, even if they were married a hundred times in Pakistan.

What inaccuracies? You’re talking in riddles now.

I think they call it a 'cohabitation' don't they?

Where are you getting this shite from? Do you use a different Mnet or are you in the habit of making things up? I've seen it a lot lately, right wing hyperbole.🙈

Yes, it is so depressing!

@Tryingtokeepgoing , thanks, cohabitation is different. It's when the president and the parliamentary majority belong to two different political camps (like Chirac/Jospin from 1997 to 2002). But 'hung parliament' is of course different. For example, over the 1997-2002 period, they had a cohabitation but the parliament wasn't hung!

Ah I see! Thanks :)

America is the bad guy. Imperialism, foreign wars etc
Russia is not America. In fact America is being mean to them (see imperialism). Therefore Russia is the good guy.

In reality though it wasn't a landslide when look at voter numbers. Labour got 33% of the vote on a 60% turnout. So in reality only about 20% of the country wanted them in government. Of this 20%, half said they only wanted them to get Torys out, so only 10% of the country really really wanted labour. The rest either wanted another party, voted Labour as the least worst option or didn't vote at all.
10% not exactly a landslide,despite the MP majority in parliament.

This is a bit silly. That’s how our voting system works. I’m a Tory but I wouldn’t suggest that Starmer hasn’t got a very significant mandate. Of course he does.

On an electoral basis it will worry Labour come the next election because the mandate will be easier to remove than if the party’s vote share had been higher. But that’s got nothing to do with the present mandate.

She probably didn't come in on a spousal visa though,did she? She probably came in under a family visa under some sort of guardianship scenario, given that the groom is highly likely to have been closely or at least distantly related to her family.

Getting in trouble from whom though? The left wing local authorities who were more concerned with not attracting accusations of racism than they were with protecting vulnerable under age girls?

If the authorities in question had not taken that line, then social workers, teachers and police would have had absolutely nothing to fear in speaking out loud about what they knew to be true.

I believe there have been a few small riots but in general it's not been too bad. Contrast that with what we'd be seeing if the RN had come out as the top party and I imagine the Antifa and social justice warrior types, as well as some residents of the banlieues would be burning and smashing up Paris as we speak.

Now they are desperate for a pm to sit in the vip box at the Olympics.
I can't understand the timing of macron? Why not do all this after the Olympics?
It's farcical.

But he hasn't. The vote share (4 million) is the same as UKIP vote share in 2015.

Attal is still Prime Minister, and may be for a while

He's being begged to stay for the Olympics

“The left wing authorities” like Tory-run Buckinghamshire Council, who were sued for negligence by the teenage victims of grooming gangs in Aylesbury?

This isn’t a party issue, please don’t try to turn it into one. The only difference is that there tends to be a higher population of Muslims in poorer areas, so they’re more likely to be under a Labour run council but where the council is Conservative they’ve had the same issues.

Fair point.

Well, there you go. They walk amongst us, and it is very scary.

Most of the so called 'foreign' people in France are French, born and bred, often 2nd or 3rd generation even, from French colonies where France's actions were appalling in the quite recent past.

Unless you personally know some of them well, and know what they have gone through- the sheer racism and discrimination in every way- it's hard to imagine.

"Well, there you go. They walk amongst us, and it is very scary"

@fungipie you must live a very sheltered life if that's your idea of scary.

Not at all. Fascism being supported by a significant proportion of the population, be it in the UK, Italy or France, the USA, etc, is scary. Apartheid only finished in the 90s, very recently indeed. Perhaps you are too young to remember, or not have studied how Nazis started in the 30s in Germany, Austria and Italy.

Wait. Is that a left leaning person personally attacking. What a shock. I am not right wing. Thanks though.