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The Brits have already voted for Brexit and given the Prime Minister\u2019s job to a conservative, Theresa May, who campaigned on that platform.\u00a0 The talks for this change will begin in March this year.<\/p>\n
Next autumn, the French will have their own election for a new President. Fran\u00e7ois Fillon is the leading Republican candidate, but has come under scrutiny because his wife Penelope has been getting a fat paycheck since before 2002. The work contracts that she signed have yet to turn up. Fillon insists that her employment is all above board, and these complaints are nothing but attempts to discredit him, part of an “institutional coup d’etat from the left\u2019, per this BBC article.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-38826458<\/a><\/p>\n Nepotism is never a\u00a0 pretty thing, is it? Pres. Trump\u2019s (get used to that) son-in-law has been hit with the nepotism label.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Mr. Fillon, the Froggies do not like to see someone getting what they think is a free ride, any more than we do. French farmers may dump truckloads of tomatoes on a roadside if they can\u2019t get the price they expect to get, but in France, there is no such thing as \u2018le fromage gratuit\u2019.<\/p>\n In the discussion in that article the author looks at the possibility of Marine LePen getting the position of President, and holds it as unlikely.\u00a0 However, Mlle. LePen is a Frexiteer. Her father founded the National Front, and she is its leader. She has changed and softened its positions and image, including expelling her father from the party, but it\u2019s still quite conservative.<\/p>\n In the opinion of author Barry Gordon, \u201cif there were a referendum in France on the EU, they would vote to leave. I don\u2019t know if a vote would actually go that way, but it is indicative of popular sentiment. A referendum on the constitution in Italy at the end of last year turned into a referendum on the EU, and the anti-vote won. In Finland, severe curbs are being placed on immigration. Austria has just banned the wearing of the veil in public.\u201d \u00a0He predicted a year ahead that\u00a0 Trump would win the US elections last fall. LePen is quite protectionist and wants France to leave the Eurozone and the Schengen Area, which allows free movement across national boundaries. She is the only candidate with enough radicalism to bring about such changes.<\/p>\n Brexit begins in earnest in Autumn; through the summer, we\u2019ll see what Gordon has termed a \u2018phony Brexit\u2019, more a rehearsal than the real thing. This BBC article defines the Brexit talks as \u201con a humongous scale\u201d.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-38825830<\/a><\/p>\n Two to three years after the Spring elections in Germany and the Fall elections in France, in addition, we should see a complete change. Antiglobalism is raising its head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"