{"id":176532,"date":"2020-05-24T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/24\/about-fing-time-7\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T00:36:00","slug":"about-fing-time-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/24\/about-fing-time-7\/","title":{"rendered":"About F%$#ing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green and progress members of the French National Assembly have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/14ed55d8-950a-4069-940b-b1231b49f2c6\">left Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s party<\/a>, meaning that his party no longer has a majority.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the fact that Macron has spent his time crapping on the poor and the environment to further pursue the agenda of the wealthy and powerful, the only question is, &#8220;What took them so long?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">French president Emmanuel Macron\u2019s ruling party lost its parliamentary majority on Tuesday when 17 left-leaning, environmentalist and feminist dissidents set up a new political group in the National Assembly.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Paula Forteza, co-chair of Ecologie D\u00e9mocratie Solidarit\u00e9 (EDS), said the new group\u2019s proposals included a temporary wealth tax to help the country through the coronavirus crisis and universal income payments to everybody over 18 years old. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe are at a historic turning point,\u201d she told a news conference by video. \u201cWe want this exit from the crisis to be marked by environmental and social justice, not by a purely economic or short-termist plan.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The split leaves Mr Macron\u2019s liberal La R\u00e9publique en Marche (LREM) with 288 seats in the National Assembly, one short of an absolute majority. But it does not so far threaten the government\u2019s ability to legislate, because the ruling party can still rely on the support of 46 members of parliament from Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou\u2019s centrist Modem party.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Since then, however, some environmentalists and former Socialists in LREM have become disenchanted with Mr Macron\u2019s economic reforms. These include the abolition of the country\u2019s wealth tax and a contentious plan to simplify the pension system that has since been put on hold, and with what they see as his failure to champion green causes with sufficient vigour. They fear they will be punished by voters in the next round of national elections in 2022.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A 15-point manifesto released by EDS lays out a range of green and leftwing demands, including a \u20ac5bn transfer of funds over three years to local authorities for ecological and social projects, the protection of animal rights, compulsory paternity leave and the \u201creshoring\u201d of industries in France and Europe.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Macron used the rhetoric of unity to serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful, which is par for the course for every &#8220;3<sup>rd<\/sup> Way&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that it&#8217;s finally catching up with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green and progress members of the French National Assembly have left Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s party, meaning that his party no longer has a majority. Considering the fact that Macron has spent his time crapping on the poor and the environment to further pursue the agenda of the wealthy and powerful, the only question is, &#8220;What took &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,374],"class_list":["post-176532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}