Andrew Neil, chairman of The Spectator magazine, first (and short-lived) chairman of GB News, and a doubtlessly formidable right-wing thinker, wrote this about the French election in the Daily Mail on 1 July: “Far from putting France’s populist Right back in its box after it came first in elections to the European Parliament last month, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, which won a predicted 34 per cent of the vote according to exit polls in yesterday’s legislative elections, will now be the largest party in the French National Assembly.”
Six days later, after France’s shock election results which saw the country facing a hung parliament, in the same newspaper, he warned: “France voted yesterday for the political abyss. Far from making the hard Right the biggest party in parliament, as was widely expected, the French people gave first place… to the hard Left. Almost nobody saw it coming… The result is a recipe for confusion, chaos and weak government.” Macron, he decided was a “busted flush”.
I disagree and am somewhat alarmed.........