ER Editor: Below are short articles on French farmers, who have the bit between their teeth. Today, January 26th, the metropolitan area surrounding Paris is due to be affected by their blockades. Meanwhile, the politicians keep themselves enriched. (It’s a movie, folks. Nobody governs like this.)
In a striking demonstration of indecency, the National Assembly (ER: Parliament) decided to give itself a small financial facelift by voting for an increase of more than 300 euros per month on the mandate fees of deputies. All this, of course, in the name of the fierce fight against inflation. Because, you know, when the country is struggling to make ends meet, there’s nothing like a budget boost for MPs to solve all the problems.
The Assembly office, hand in hand with the majority of political groups, has generously decided to increase the advance mandate fees (AFM) from 5,645 euros to 5,950 euros per month. A trifle, isn’t it? An increase of 5.4% to allow our valiant representatives to cope with rising prices. Because, let’s be serious, at 5,645 euros, how can they afford a baguette and a bottle of decent wine?
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And as if that were not enough, the deputies also decided to expand the use of the mandate fee advance to cover childcare. Because nothing makes more sense than using taxpayer money for MPs’ babysitting services.
In summary, our elected officials now have the possibility of using this financial windfall for everything, from renting a office to social evenings, including travel, hotels and even childcare. And all this under strict control since 2018, of course. Because if we can’t trust our MPs to manage their pocket money, who can we really trust?
We have it on informal authority that MPs / deputies make over 7,000 euros per month in salary. On top of that, they receive ‘frais mandat’ (mandate fees mentioned above), another 5,000+ euros for expenses, operating costs, etc. Making close to 14,000 per month. So they’ve just voted themselves a small increase in the second part. NOBODY GOVERNS LIKE THIS. They’re waking up the normies.
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Rachel Marsden for RT picks up the French farmers’ situation here —
French fury: Farmers sowing seeds of revolution against elites in Paris
The French government is scrambling to get a whole lot of tractors off the nation’s major highways. Good luck with that when 89% of French citizens back the protesting farmers, according to a new Odoxa poll.
France is joining a movement that now encompasses nearly 20% of the EU, with farmers in five of the bloc’s 27 countries convoying and blockading major roads. Farmers in Poland, Romania, Germany, and the Netherlands have now been joined by their counterparts from the country virtually synonymous with revolution. And one particular incident here in France has just shifted the nascent movement into overdrive.
French farmers’ complaints converge with those of their counterparts across the EU. They’re angry with their own governments, but only because these elected officials have insisted on sliding into the fitted straitjacket imposed on them by the unelected technocratic tyrants in Brussels and their top-down, ideologically driven policies. There’s a good reason why French farmers this week have ripped up and burned the same EU flag that President Emmanuel Macron insists on placing alongside the French tricolor in his various appearances.
We highly recommend the rest of this piece.
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Translation: “The next stop will be Paris!” (this video of this struggling farmer who explains this morning what is going to happen) The movement at the gates of Paris this morning is only 60 kilometers away! “The peasant revolt is now at the gates of Paris, notably with the blocking of the A16, in Oise” (BFMTV) “We’re going to increase the pressure!” Paris has 2 days of food autonomy: immense possibility of putting pressure on the Macronist government, with massive support from the population who will march en masse with the farmers! Let’s relay, let’s support, let’s join!
« La prochaine étape ce sera Paris ! » (ce vidéo de cet agriculteur en lutte qui explique ce matin ce qui va se passer ⤵️)
Le mouvement aux portes de Paris ce matin, a seulement 60 kilomètres !
« La révolte paysanne est désormais aux portes de Paris, avec notamment le blocage… pic.twitter.com/dD0Y1c2pE1
— Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) January 24, 2024
#agricultursencolere has some interesting videos
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Farmers’ unions announce a blockade of Paris from Friday January 26
ROMAIN PAUC for FRANCE SOIR
FRANCE – Will farmers go to Paris on Friday January 26? This Thursday, January 25, the union organizations of the FNSEA, FDSEA and the Young Farmers (JA) announced blockages at the entrances and exits of the capital from this Friday, which could continue throughout the weekend.
The departmental branch of the FNSEA of Île-de-France (ER: the metropolitan area surrounding Paris proper) announced in the columns of Le Parisien a blockage of the A1 motorway “early Friday morning”. The A15, A 13, A10, A11 and A6 roads are also affected. For now.
ARNAUD FINISTRE / AFPParis is not the only city affected by these blockages. We expect other actions from the farmers’ movement in Grenoble, Bordeaux, Agen, or Caen.
This week, farmer mobilizations, highway blockages and snail operations have multiplied throughout France. This Thursday, January 25, 55 departments were involved.
These announcements come at a time when the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, must meet with the ministries of Agriculture, Ecological Transition and the Economy.
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Angry farmers: between rural revolt and political maneuvering?
G. LIGUILY for FRANCE SOIR
FRANCE – When the FNSEA turns the signs of the villages of France upside down, where Arnaud Rousseau, its president, an industrialist with multiple conflicts of interest, enriches himself between two visits to the Élysée (ER: seat of the President), when the police open the way for farmers who are going to dump manure in front of a prefecture, when the mainstream media have started to turn around their logos… shouldn’t we be questioning all this?
Julien De Rosa / AFPWho is manipulating whom, and who will benefit from the crime? The question can be asked. The farmers are demonstrating and France-Soir has not forgotten them. We are attached to those whom the Republic has neglected for years, the very people who feed us.
Anger is brewing and the situation is getting tense day by day. Numerous demonstrations and road blockages have been reported from one region to another, illustrating the general discontent of farmers, who are increasingly supported by the population. Nearly 8 out of 10 French people according to Odoxa.
While the government recognizes the seriousness of the situation, it believes that the anger expressed by farmers is partly due to a feeling of relegation, contempt and downgrading. The government’s announcements, while under the auspices of the Republic, we grant ourselves some small increases (ER: irony), in the Assembly, for example, which has decided to vote itself an increase of over 300 euros. This is more than clumsiness …
Peasant Europe seems to be falling apart
In addition, the protest movement was bereaved by a tragic incident in Ariège, where a farmer and her 12-year-old daughter were killed after being hit by a car at a roadblock.
This rural anger has arrived in France after Germany, Poland, the Netherlands… Peasant Europe seems to be stirring. If, in Poland, farmers recently lifted a blockade after signing an agreement with the government; in Germany and the Netherlands, the protest is intensifying and the standoff across the Rhine could well shake up those in power.
These events reflect the challenges and frustrations faced by farmers in the current context, marked by strong economic, environmental and political pressures.
If the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA) has played a central role in the current protest movement in France, it seems increasingly disconnected from the base, from those who really suffer and do not recognize themselves in a union of large owners close to power. (ER: As in Germany, it’s more than likely that the farmer representatives are bought-out globalists.)
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