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!

But if someone votes for a party who advocate for hatred and intolerance, it's a bit rich of them to throw that back at those who call them on their shit.

Well it's all a bit shit for France really. 3 years of nothing to come. A parliament made up of far right and left with a centrist (almost) President. No one is going to agree on anything.

@rumnraisins has just put it so much better than me 👏👏👏

LOL. Yes, Brexit is definitely the fault of the people who voted AGAINST it. Not the fault of the tories for holding the referendum and the Brexiteers who lied about it and those who believed them and voted accordingly. Nice try!

Quelle surprise 😲 Allons Citoyens! 🇫🇷

The left needs to recognise the danger of this all and stop pressing hard on people.

Horse shoe theory is dubious at best.

Why should the Uk be bothered about what happens in France. They are nothing to do with us.

Oh give over, I hate this reframing the far right as "they were really left wing because the party was called the national socialist party" they literally put communists and socialists in death camps.

"First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me"

I find the far left ‘ghastly’ too, and one just hopes they don’t take over the Labour Party…..

Only if you mean that overall the commies have killed a lot more people than the ‘far right’.

2 sides of the same coin I agree. Look at Mussolini.

Hopefully the UK and France can work together on the boats issue. A solution that is more humane and less costly than flights to Rwanda.

More than I mean it's a theory that has extremely little academic support.

75 million dead from the far right starting world war 2 is a pretty hefty number in any language.

This is fabulous news. Off to read

Well, I think it was a good thing for France and the world that DeGaulle and others were NOT tolerant of the fascists and their collaborators.

Not all political views are equal. (And indeed, DeGaulle's, like Churchill's, would not have been mine in many respects. No matter. The difference between the far right and everyone else overrides most other political differences.)

Let's hope that the decent people of France and elsewhere in Europe can stop resurgent fascism, long before it reaches the point that it did in the 30s and 40s.

Vive la France!

Brilliant news.

Putin will be seething like rumpelstiltskin after the last few days

Nothing really to celebrate! The French now have a hung parliament with a big right wing presence. Another thing is I doubt Macron or any of the centre left will listen to the french people.

I have a few friends that live in France and they tell me noone trusts politicians at all regardless of what party they represent.

@rumnraisins The Nazis didn’t start a socialists, they started as the German Workers Party, then added the ‘socialist’ part to try and get more support. Then they sent the socialists and communists to the camps. There was bugger all left about the Nazis, they were far right.

It’s also worth mentioning that both Marx’s grandfathers were rabbis, and the Nazis burned his books because he was of Jewish descent.

Its because they are our neighbours. They have a history that is the same as ours but different. And a political/legal situation that is completely different but sort of the same. I am sure people in Zimbabwe etc are discussing South Africa without feeling guilty. Its not like anyone is suggesting we invade France to impose our will.

They are! They’re 20 miles away from us - and not only are they our closest trading partner but their government and ours work closely on migration issues (among many other things), so they’re pretty important to us.

Read up on Mélenchon. He's pro-Putin. Horseshoe theory actually is a thing in this case.

Have you been paying attention for the last five years? Starmer has well and truly seen off that threat.