[Crabcakes]

Macron’s gamble, and some shrewd drop-outs, looks like paying off. This is a fantastic result, and a high turnout.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... uel-macron

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yep. Credit to the Left, Centrists and non-fash Right.

[Youngian]

More mental contortion needed for the right wing gobshites. They’re incapable of shutting up until the fat lady sings and never learn from their foolishness of making hubristic predictions.

[safe_timber_man]

Bloody hell Macron! He's got some bottle, I'll give him that. It was a hell of a chess play!

[Youngian]

A thinking man’s David Cameron.

[Bones McCoy]

Viva la popular front

[RedSparrows]

Good on ya, Frogs.

See the FN moaning about being 'denied' a victory. Will of the people innit.

Parties are coalitions. Different way to coalitions of parties, but groupings are as democratic as parties are.

[Youngian]

Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the French Greens part of the elite?

[RedSparrows]

Isn't he tired of being fatuous and asinine?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I've got TF1 on youtube. The results are coming in on the right of the screen. It's Thursday night all over again, except I don't know where lots of the places are. Seems to be that Le Pen is losing lots by small amounts.

Oh, now it's finished.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Still running on France 24

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cheers

[Arrowhead]

Fantastic news! A great finale to an already lovely weekend.

Goodwin really is a twat, isn't he?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Pleased to see that 'my' bit of France (Normandie-Manche 2nd District) has voted 63% for Ensemble (Macron, centralist). Rassemblement Nationale (fash) at c30%, which is a worry but not a disaster.

I don't think RN took any seats in Normandy, and the extreme gauche took a couple (including Cherbourg).

HOWEVER
It seems the historic schism between Upper and Lower Normandy still exists, with a lot of RN in Upper Normandy (Rouen excepted).

[Youngian]

Will Macron seeks an assembly coalition with the centre left and greens but keep Melenchon and the Stalinist dafties out of the picture?

[Youngian]

Defeating the right and coalition building are hardly Jez’s strong hands

[Tubby Isaacs]

Didn't Macron and the sane Tories also beat the Far Right, or do they not count?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Didn't Macron and the sane Tories also beat the Far Right, or do they not count?

How dare you bring logic into this! The allotment messiah has pronounced.

[Abernathy]

Yeah, Jez, but you only get one fucking shot in the UK, and you blew it. The beauty of the French system is it gives you the chance to correct such egregious mis-steps, and thankfully, this weekend, it would appear to have done so.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Heard a line on France 24:
Le premier tour on choisir, le seconde on éliminer.

In the first round one chooses, min the second round one eliminates.

C'est vrai.