Left-wing ‘députés’ of the French National Assembly snub handshake from centrist as they cast their votes – just as it should be. If only a little of it rubbed off on Britain’s ‘Labour’ MPs when they meet their ideologically-indistinguishable ‘opponents’
New left-wing députés (MPs) in the French National Assembly gave a centrist official the cold shoulder as they cast their votes last week in the election of the parliamentary ‘Président’ – equivalent to the Speaker of the UK House of Commons.
When the new UK government took office, there were numerous scenes of Keir Starmer and Tory Rishi Sunak happily and chummily laughing and chatting together. This is deeply nauseating when the Tories have spent fourteen years impoverishing millions and implementing policies directly linked to the deaths of over 300,000 people, but all too predictable when Starmer is to the right of the Tories in many ways, clearly serves the interests of the rich and powerful, and has done nothing resembling opposition since he conned his way into the Labour leadership in early 2020.
But the French left-wingers know better – they are there to oppose and defeat their far-right and crypto-right (centrist) opponents and undo the social and moral damage they continue to do to French society and people:
The original poster of the video commented (in French) that ‘these are representatives who represent’.
Seven years ago, Skwawkbox published an interview with then-new MP Laura Pidcock in which she said she was not in Parliament to be friends with Tories, because she was there to fight for her class and the Tories are working against the interests of her class. The right – inside and outside the Labour party – went into meltdown at the idea that the Conservatives are harming people and Labour MPs should not be part of the same pally ‘club’.
But she was right – and both the diseased state of our country and the lack of hope for the real change its people need are reflected in the gurning cosiness of the majority of MPs who are now masquerading as representatives of the working class, but cannot disguise that they really represent the interests of the billionaires and corporate or nationalist fascism.
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The Frenchs like the Spaniards we don’t have an stiff upper lift, like the Brits do. What we have is an stiff neck, we don´t put our heads down and engage in platitudes with the enemy.
So pleased to see the French Left have, finally, rediscovered the solidarity to oppose the real opposition – The Right!
Let’s hope they can keep it up, without too much angst.
Europe – and many others – need that. Oh, how we need that!
‘Scuse my ignorance…but what’s with the glad-handing anyway?
Maria is correct.
I think her reference is to the “stiff upper lip” and not the “stiff upper lift”.
Well said Maria.
Venceremos !
The secret to their success was to mirror the electorate and put up the best candidate in each seat, they are a Rainbow coalition, which you would expect to collapse quite quickly
Demand now will be for a one nation government to take on the Yanks and the Banks and neutralise the Kleptocracy
Sound familiar
Félicitations French National Assembly left MPs!
Laura Pidcock and hundreds of thousands of former Labour party Members salute you.
“The seven Labour MPs who defied the Government by backing an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap have lost the whip, the PA news agency understands.
Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana have been suspended from the parliamentary party for six months, after which their position will be reviewed.”
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/labour-suspends-the-7-mps-who-voted-to-scrap-two-child-benefit-cap-379564/
And the purpose of your providing this information, Billy, is precisely what?
Is it a tacit, albeit late on your part, recognition of what people have been telling you about the nature of the Starmer led Labour Party for the past four years?
Is it an implicit endorsement of the removal of the whip from these MP’s?
Is it an implied criticism of the MP’s in question for putting the needs of hungry children above the greed of the oligarch class?
Or don’t you have the bottle to take a public position on the matter?
Dave – I would have thought that would have been obvious, even to you.
The purpose was to inform other readers about what I thought was an important, and newsworthy story.
Why is it YOU consider it “newsworthy”, Billy?
What is it that sets it apart from all the other events taking place that are “newsworthy”?
Is it relevant to this thread, and if so in what way?
People on this site have consistently demonstrated that they are perfectly capable of keeping up with such news without any “assistance” from yourself.
So why waste your time alerting people to something we were already aware of?
Could it be there was some other motive?
Dave – I’m self-evidently not the only one who found this newsworthy. 🤔
The question, Billy, for those very clearly slow on the uptake, was WHY do YOU consider it newsworthy?
Or is that too hard for those of you in the Remove?
Dave – What is ‘the Remove’?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remove_(education)
N.B.: A concept which I recollect was adapted outside the public school system from which it originated. Our Secondary Modern school in the 1960’s had two mainstream classes in each year with a non-mainstream mixed year class with the designation “R” (clearly based on the public school Remove concept) for those who were not academically inclined.
Dave – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not a concept that I ever heard of at my 60s Grammar School or at any of the International Schools that my daughter has attended.
…..which goes some way to explaining your complete lack of gorm, Billy.
Dave – 🥱😪😴💤
Dear G*d don’t let the troll hijack the page again. There is no reason to collaborate with this. The troll is just taking advantage of the fact that this is one of the few websites, where the subject can be about one country, yet the moderator will allow a comment poster going off-topic about a different country and subject entirely.
Don’t acknowledge these!
“…for six months, after which their position will be reviewed.”
‘More than 40 Labour MPs recorded no vote, with some of those listed spotted in the chamber throughout the day, while others will have had permission to miss the vote.
‘The House of Commons voted 363 to 103, majority 260, to reject the amendment tabled in the name of SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn.
‘Slow handclapping could be heard in the chamber after the result was announced.
….
‘Mr Flynn said: “Tonight, the Labour Party has failed its first major test in government.”‘