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The man who is most likely to be France’s next president,
Francois Fillon has just denounced the notion of a multicultural France. He
said so in a televised debate against the other conservative candidate: Alain
Juppe.
At a time when German Chancellor Angela Merkel is struggling
to defend her open arms policy, the one that allowed well over a million Muslim
immigrants into her nation, Fillon has taken the opposite tack. Undoubtedly, he
is also vying to become leader of Europe.
For her part Merkel has declared that she will present
herself again to be Chancellor and has denounced the media—who else?-- for
publishing reports about the appalling consequences of her refugee policy.
The Daily Mail reports on Fillon’s statements:
When
asked whether he saw the future of French society on Thursday as multicultural
the conservative firebrand said: 'the answer is no'.
'France
has a history, a language, a culture, of course this culture and language have
been enriched by the contributions of foreign populations, but it remains the
foundation of our identity,' he said.
Fillon
also rejected the suggestion that France is already a multi-cultural
country.
'No, in
any case it's not the choice we made, we did not make the choice of
communitarianism and multiculturalism.'
'When
we go to somebody's house, we don't try to take power,' said Fillon adding that
immigrants must respect France's cultural heritage.
For your edification the conservative Fillon is considered
to be a Thatcherite. He is proposing to lead France out of the multicultural
wilderness, but also out of the socialist wilderness.
The Daily Mail writes:
'It is
true that my project is more radical and perhaps more difficult,' said Fillon,
whose economic ideas have been compared to those of late British prime minister
Margaret Thatcher.
Fillon,
a 62-year-old former prime minister, wants to slash an eye-popping 500,000
public sector jobs over five years and scrap the 35-hour working week in a bid
to kick-start the sluggish French economy.
Good luck to him!
2 comments:
Good luck, indeed! I was living in the UK while Maggie was PM, and I came to love the Iron Lady. The French would do well with a dose of Thatcherite economic policy, applied with iron will, to the sclerotic French economy. I watched while Maggie crushed communist Arthur Scargill and the mighty miners union, and it was a joy to behold. The BBC were, of course, wetting their collective(ist) knickers.
"Don't go wobbly on me now, George!"
--- M Thatcher (to GHW Bush)
He can certainly denounce it, but how many Muslims are already there, and making trouble, and creating no-go zones in the banlieus? How will he deal with that?
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