“We cannot be seduced,” she said, brimming with confidence after her party secured 46pc of the vote in a by-election earthquake a week ago. Her candidate trounced the ruling Socialists in their own bastion of Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
“The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves, and that is our incredible strength. What are they going to do, send in tanks?” she told the Daily Telegraph at the Front National’s headquarters, an unmarked building tucked away in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Her office is small and workaday, almost austere.
“Europe is just a great bluff. One side there is the immense power of sovereign peoples, and on the other side are a few technocrats,” she said.
h/t EBD
“What are they going to do send in tanks?”
Famous last words.
“We cannot be seduced…”
And she has the gall (Gaul?) to call herself French! 😉
That’s what I thought. If the French think the Germans are going to let them crash the Euro and Germany with it, they have never read history. Talk about your short memory problem.
Europeans are all crazy, you ask me.
Hahah that didn’t take long:
via BCF
Good to see cracks starting in the EU facade. This revenge-of-the-communists has run it’s course,I hope the whole bloody fiasco collapses,and soon.
Just don’t expect us to intervene if it gets bloody.
What the fools in Brussels fail to realize is that it is not Le Pen who is fueling this sentiment is France–it’s reality. They can try and strong arm her and silence her like they used to in old Germany, but the fact of the matter is that realities, both economic and social, within France are what is going to carry the day. Calling Le Pen a racist is not going to change the fact that the French economy is in shambles and that buses are burning.
“Far right French leader Marine Le Pen is likely to stand trial for racism after comparing Muslims praying in the street to the Nazi occupation of France.”
Perfect.. a state sponsored marketing campaign that the media have to cover. A very big state funded soap box for her to use as a political pulpit.
Everyone loves a martyr.
Any good lawyer could get her off.
First question: what race are Muslims?
“What are they going to do, send in tanks?”
Don’t give them ideas.
Le Pen and her party are socialist, they just want socialism with a currency they can easily abuse. More ‘national socialist’ as opposed to transnational socialist.
WOW! 10 comments and all seem to support the Euro and/or oppose Le Pen’s position. Nice to see the evidence that conservatives are exactly like progressives. Long live the Banksters!
The Phantom said: That’s what I thought. If the French think the Germans are going to let them crash the Euro and Germany with it, they have never read history. Talk about your short memory problem.
I think the Germans are going to applaud if that happens – the French get the “blame” for “killing the Euro”, and Germany gets to stop propping up the whole rickety edifice.
Everyone wins when the Euro dies.
(LAS has an excellent point that removing the Euro doesn’t mean France magically gains a sound currency – but that’s another issue entirely.)
What Sigivald said.
The woman speaks with conviction.
Every day the British should get up and thank Maggie Thatcher for keeping the Euro out. Then there was sovereignty-association where our parasitic region planned to use the Canadian dollar. Economic integration without political integration doesn’t work. The European experiment failed and it’s time to reboot back to the customs union stage.
So is everybody here gearing up their kiddies for the next war? NO??? Good. It’s getting really hard to tell who is worse…the muzzies or the euros.
And would somebody please get a clue-bat to smack the next one who says or thinks socialists are right wing upside the head?
A European Common Market makes economic sense.
A Eurocrat superstate does not.
It fails to protect liberty, citizen sovereignty and economic efficiency.
Only the nation state of a liberal democracy does that.
The Eurocrat superstate’s present financial problems stem from a fantasy.
That southern European states would match the productivity of northern European states simply because their governments were allowed similar access to credit.
The Eurocrats have decided to eliminate the loyalty of Britains to Britain, of the French to France and the Germans to Germany et al, by importing enough
Muslims until the culture of those countries can no longer function as a nation. Until Europe becomes Eurabia.
A low level civil war, a long recession and state suppression of freedom of speech and freedom of political association is part of the Eurocrat strategy to achieve the Euro-Super State is facing citizen revulsion and revolt.
UKIP is has a growing electoral support in Britain, as does Le Pen in France, Europeans have not given up on their European nation states.
Can their electoral redemption occur before their shrinking demographics, a spiraling birth rate, reduce the contest to an all out civil war?
It’s too close to predict at this point.
“Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.”
The Lot district has a history of hosting dinosaurs.
Flying Monsters With David Attenborough 1:10:42
28:20 France — pterodactyls. Crayssac sur Lot — Walking & “hand tracks”
First record of a pterosaur landing trackway
Well, I have seen tanks in the streets of Paris, intent on business, when de Gaulle took over – and gendarmes armed with machine guns. The French take politics seriously.
There are some great quotes in the link, such as
“Her plan is based on a study by economists from l’École des Hautes Études in Paris led by Professor Jacques Sapir. It concludes that France, Italy, and Spain would all benefit greatly from EMU-exit, restoring lost labour competitiveness at a stroke without years of depression” – to which one can only agree with another contributor, WOW!!
“Any good lawyer could get her off.”
Under our adversarial court system where the judge referees the contest between prosecution and defence, yes.
In continental Europe they have the inquisitorial court system instead which means the prosecutor and the judge are the same person.
LAS is correct. They are both “nationalist” and “socialist”.
Next up are the progressives’ explanations on how those two terms are somehow incompatible.
“What are they going to do, send in tanks?”
Gee, they’ve never done that before? Well maybe once, WWII, or twice, WWI. But hey, what could go wrong.
It sounds like she’s trying to negotiate a la PQ.
I’m amazed that France has stayed with the EU this long. They aren’t exactly natural team players. Anything beyond a free trade zone has been at the expense of national sovereignty for the EU members. Despite her economic fascism, she is a refreshing change as the break-up of a leviathan super-state is always positive. This likely answers the question of whether or not France was going into the Califate without a fight. Things could get interesting.
Well, of course France, Spain, Italy and any of a number of countries, including our own, could solve most of their economic problems tomorrow if they could, somehow, reclaim their right to issue money and credit from the banksters, and tell the banksters where they could stick their theft bonds.
Back in the real world, the reason we have a French republic is that once the creditors of the House of Bourbon, who styled themselves the kings of France, realized that the money they had lent the House of Bourbon to fight (and lose) wars against the English would never be repaid, they saw to it that the Bourbon king and his queen were thrown to the mob while the army looked on. Armies march on their stomach, and a prince’s command of his army only lasts as long as he has food to feed them, the money to buy the food and the credit to get the money.
The banksters know that, and princes know that. That is why human princes brave enough to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord and in the interest of their subjects, as opposed to the banksters, are rare indeed. Such brave princes as this rarely if ever die in bed.
If by some miracle Marine Le Pen was suffered to become President of France (a very big if, as it assumes the bankster-controlled parties wouldn’t do whatever it took to stop her), and made a serious attempt to reclaim the French sovereign’s right to issue money, the banksters would cut off the French Republic’s credit forthwith; every bank in France would fail, taking the life savings of the French people with them; the police and army would desert or mutiny within days or weeks for want of pay; and Mlle. Le Pen would soon find herself governing from exile, assuming the helicopter in which she fled the Elysee Palace somehow made it to Swiss airspace without being shot down by mutineers.
The only question left would be whether the French army would restore the banksters to power themselves, allow German soldiers to march into Paris to do it for them, or whether one or the other army would first have to push aside local Muslims trying to install an Islamic Republic of France, with a mob of suburban “youth” as their enforcers and take control of the French nuclear arsenal.
None of this is to say that I do not wish Marine Le Pen any worse luck than I do Nigel Farage, or that she does not have my prayers. On the contrary—she’ll need the prayers of all the saints in heaven if she’s to stand a chance of saving France from the banksters and, for that matter, from the folly of the French people themselves. The simple truth is she would make a better ruler than the French deserve.
(Though not the best possible. That would be Elizabeth, by the grace of God and by law, as heir to Edward III of England who was cheated of his inheritance by the House of Valois, the rightful Queen of France. Pray that after all the tribulations in store for France the French people renounce their centuries-long rebellion, and recognize her as queen. Do not expect it to happen, of course, before France is humbled much, much more than she has been.)
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Every day the cracks in the EU widen.
The growing popularity of Le Front National and UKIP are symptoms of a growing awareness among Europeans that they have been led down the garden path by a handful of dictatorial communists.
Easing economic barriers was a smart move.
Introducing a common currency as a back door to political union was a pretty good try, but never really had any hope of succeeding once the people figured out what was going on.
It took ’em a while, but they seem to be getting there.
She just proves what has happened to Europe. To France. By the actions of the EU against her. Its now an occupied quilt of Island Nations infiltrated by a Marxist-Muslim alliance.
Guess who has the upper hand?
Did they really expect this Union to hold when the Soviet Union belly flopped economically. With military might behind it?
Britain is all but Muslim in Name. France has been overran. Sweden burns.
Jews are fleeing. Gays as well.
Sharia law has come to Europe.To stay.The peoples of these Nations sold out to Saudi interests By Elitists, Academics.