Andrew Neil - 'This is not a good time for Western leadership' | SpectatorTV

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  • Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
  • The second round of France’s election did not prove so successful for Marine Le Pen, whose party fell to third place with the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) emerging as the dominant force. Andrew Neil Chairman of the Spectator speaks to Freddy Gray about who the key characters on the left are, and why, despite losing in this round of elections, this could mean Marine Le Pen goes on to win the Presidential election in 2027.
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  • @realitykicksin8755
    @realitykicksin8755 14 дней назад +419

    Europe has a strong right wing undercurrent. Not just radical but also centered. Europe is sick of the immigration crimes.

    • @Likeaworm
      @Likeaworm 14 дней назад +40

      These polices that breed this undercut will keep being pursued. The establishment and left doesn’t realize that they are creating a monster.

    • @BraveInstance
      @BraveInstance 14 дней назад +36

      Toni Kross commented on mass immigration the other day. Auslander Raus is a popular song over there. Even the Germans with all their WW2 guilt are starting to have enough.

    • @gusgone4527
      @gusgone4527 14 дней назад

      More right minded than "wing."
      Like London, Paris has been infested with immigrants and has many no-go-areas.

    • @debbiedion5731
      @debbiedion5731 14 дней назад

      The eu demon bred this and happily took billions to do it😡

    • @unwokeneuropean3590
      @unwokeneuropean3590 14 дней назад

      The modern left will create the ultimate darth vader right. If they don't take care of the conservatives sooner or later they will suffer by the real ultra right... With a tiny moustache leader at it again. When it happens, we could all blame the left.

  • @theringmaster886
    @theringmaster886 14 дней назад +142

    Eastern Europe seems to be the only place standing up for "Western" values and people.

    • @ciaronsmith4995
      @ciaronsmith4995 13 дней назад

      Serbia's biggest ally is Iran. Look it up.

    • @marysmik9812
      @marysmik9812 13 дней назад +3

      Precisely. The West forgot what is a value of freedom.

    • @ciaronsmith4995
      @ciaronsmith4995 13 дней назад +2

      Serbia's biggest ally.....is Iran.

    • @alen2773
      @alen2773 13 дней назад

      eastern europe does not even hold western values

    • @user-zc2ve6bb6r
      @user-zc2ve6bb6r 12 дней назад

      @@ciaronsmith4995 Serbia is not Eastern Europe.

  • @LW-no9sm
    @LW-no9sm 13 дней назад +59

    In France and in England the problem is the Far Left.

    • @Kantomirdes
      @Kantomirdes 11 дней назад

      The problem in England is the complete lack of education of monolingual people like you.

    • @utubemewatch
      @utubemewatch 11 дней назад +4

      And the establishment!

    • @offshoretomorrow3346
      @offshoretomorrow3346 11 дней назад

      The establishment is the university indoctrinated Far Left.

    • @JohnKeller-fq8hn
      @JohnKeller-fq8hn 11 дней назад +2

      The same in the US

    • @JohnKeller-fq8hn
      @JohnKeller-fq8hn 11 дней назад +2

      ​@@utubemewatchyep I agree with you 100 percent

  • @SuperHeadman1
    @SuperHeadman1 14 дней назад +281

    Young people celebrating by setting fires and clashing with the police, they did the same last week when they lost the first round.

    • @pulsey2001
      @pulsey2001 14 дней назад

      Israelites… They will learn the same lesson.

    • @Candolad
      @Candolad 14 дней назад +19

      Spoiled brats who can't accept losing.

    • @zviszwarc9185
      @zviszwarc9185 14 дней назад +28

      @@pulsey2001, what Israel has to do with it?

    • @mrmanontherock
      @mrmanontherock 14 дней назад

      Did you see one video on RUclips?

    • @mrmanontherock
      @mrmanontherock 14 дней назад +1

      ​@@Candoladthey won

  • @Joao-id4dn
    @Joao-id4dn 14 дней назад +95

    the failure of the center parties in Europe to address the immigration problem will fuel both far left and far right political forces

    • @marysmik9812
      @marysmik9812 13 дней назад +2

      They wanted to please everyone but it didn´t work. I blame their greed to get as many votes as possible. 😁

    • @_Stroda
      @_Stroda 13 дней назад

      Is it the right or the left that tends to have an issue with immigration?
      Clearly, it's the right.
      It's also the policies of 'the right' that have contributed most to declining birth rates in Europe. Policies in countries like the UK that have focused on older generations, that have pushed the costs down to younger generations.
      And aging populations are costly.
      So, what is it that the right wants? Massive increases in government spending to support younger citizens (with regards to housing, education, the 'cost of living', etc.), to make parenting children more affordable, or.... High levels of immigration?
      Because the reality is that many countries in Europe, if they wish to remain in any way prosperous, need one of the above.
      People on the right need to either get over what is, in many cases, blatant xenophobia/racism, or accept that policies most would deem 'left wing' are necessary.
      They won't, though, will they? Because most right wing voters aren't all that well off, but they've bought into the lies and propaganda of actual elites (elites whose wealth and power is far beyond the 'elites' that the right often demonize, i.e. hard working professional types), and so they vote against their own interests. They vote against the interests of their countries.

    • @inamoratog
      @inamoratog 13 дней назад

      ​@@_Stroda "many countries in Europe, if they wish to remain in any way prosperous, need one of the above."
      No, they don't. They need to destroy the managerial class that actually runs the country, that hides corruption behind a bloated welfare state. The same people who are importing millions more dependents for that welfare state every year so they can line their own pockets.
      Or I guess we could try importing even more people. Yes, mass movement of foreign peoples has resulted in genocide every other time we tried it, but let's give it another go! What's another continent reduced to poverty and another hundred million corpses in the face of 'progress', after all?

    • @willx9352
      @willx9352 13 дней назад +1

      ​@@_StrodaThere is a difference between legal, controlled immigration and illegal immigration.

    • @jenniferlawrence2701
      @jenniferlawrence2701 12 дней назад

      @@_Stroda Left-Wing policies are even worse for birth rates. See the rapid decline of birthrates in the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries. Immigration from outside the EU is an economic negative. Your argument is based on a series of incorrect premises.

  • @michaelpeacock6360
    @michaelpeacock6360 14 дней назад +387

    France- NR got 37% of vote...not enough for Government...UK-Labour got 33% of vote...landslide...
    Democracy - what is good for?

    • @nigelevans6873
      @nigelevans6873 14 дней назад +22

      @@peterholden3672 do you seriously feel there’s no value to comparing different electoral systems? Presumably then comparing what we’ve got to what we’ve got is the way forward? Ingenious!

    • @Bailiol
      @Bailiol 14 дней назад +25

      @@peterholden3672 It's called comparative politics. It's one of the most common and well established traditions for studying politics.

    • @andrewkinghorn5786
      @andrewkinghorn5786 14 дней назад +18

      Absolutely nothing. I'll say it again.

    • @gusgone4527
      @gusgone4527 14 дней назад +14

      @@peterholden3672 Because they both claim to be democracies!!!

    • @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304
      @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 14 дней назад +4

      @@gusgone4527 Thats because they both are

  • @sn4831
    @sn4831 14 дней назад +179

    "It's time to punish the unvaccinated." - Andrew Neil.
    The true fascist

    • @ianmedford4855
      @ianmedford4855 14 дней назад

      @@sn4831 100%. Pepperidge Farms remembers.
      This guy is a total scumbag.

    • @glynreed1
      @glynreed1 14 дней назад +29

      Our new PM said the same and offered to work with the Tories to draw up enforcement legislation.

    • @gerhard7323
      @gerhard7323 14 дней назад +12

      Great recent Short showing Starmer being shown the pub door in Bath for this very reason.
      Utter humiliation.

    • @jcal258
      @jcal258 14 дней назад

      Andrew Neil is a boob

    • @Thermopylae2007
      @Thermopylae2007 14 дней назад +7

      If that's who you've got calling themselves conservative, that is really sad.

  • @Magicspark2366
    @Magicspark2366 14 дней назад +95

    I seriously think Europe is gong to hell in a hand basket. Any attempt to backtrack on the Brexit vote despite the smokescreen of `we want to re negotiate` will undoubtedly create chaos in the UK...our major cities are a tinderbox and sparks will fly!

    • @abvmoose87
      @abvmoose87 14 дней назад

      Thats what female voting rights get you

    • @j.umh1687
      @j.umh1687 14 дней назад

      Why would negotiating cause chaos?

    • @Madoldcatlady
      @Madoldcatlady 14 дней назад +12

      @@j.umh1687 why negotiate? That’s not what the referendum was for and that’s not what the majority voted for. So to renegotiate rejoining, is a stab in the back, not to mention insanity, particularly considering the election results in France just now and the sorry state of Germany, both the two main EU countries, yet their economies tanking. You really think it’s a good idea to climb back onboard a sinking ship?

    • @joce11
      @joce11 14 дней назад

      ​@@MadoldcatladyAgree but I've no doubt New Labour will try its hardest to get onboard the sinking ship to save globalisation. The EU doesn't exist for its people. It exists for globalists.

    • @nickgood8166
      @nickgood8166 14 дней назад

      Delete the first 3 words!

  • @simonaveline5542
    @simonaveline5542 14 дней назад +55

    As if making the rich very rich and the rest of the people poor! whilst importing cheap labour so there children can't find a home or raise a family would have a backlash...

    • @januarysson5633
      @januarysson5633 14 дней назад +5

      Politicians never think of consequences past the next election.

  • @ReaLityBlue
    @ReaLityBlue 13 дней назад +17

    Western leadership is gone. People tired of endless wars triggering migration.

    • @tombergins8215
      @tombergins8215 9 дней назад

      The West , USA in particular reminds me of the USSR (Soviet Union) 8 years before the collapse of Communism & the USSR itself.
      Senile Biden being American Leonid Brezhnev for starters.

  • @steecofarn
    @steecofarn 14 дней назад +251

    Radical left, you mean extreme far left surely?

    • @upthebracket26
      @upthebracket26 14 дней назад +15

      whats extreme about wanting to put workers & eldery people before rich people & russia?

    • @Gericho572
      @Gericho572 14 дней назад +14

      @@upthebracket26 Then do it civilised.

    • @orlandomontfort5101
      @orlandomontfort5101 14 дней назад

      @@upthebracket26 Are you that naive or just stupid?

    • @wiseonwords
      @wiseonwords 14 дней назад +24

      @@upthebracket26 - That's what they claim to care about. I see you believe their propaganda.

    • @NorskInjustis
      @NorskInjustis 14 дней назад +1

      He quoted Peter Sellers, so clearly we live in the 1960s, lol

  • @michaelpower7326
    @michaelpower7326 14 дней назад +125

    Far Left (Communism)

    • @noodleppoodle
      @noodleppoodle 14 дней назад +3

      Do you know what communism even means??? Actually a bit of communism would not be bad right now when most of the assets are in the hands of a tiny few and untaxed

    • @dorseyjack3206
      @dorseyjack3206 14 дней назад +6

      @@noodleppoodle
      Do you need the air fair to N Korea?
      Get a job and buy one

    • @campbell4show
      @campbell4show 14 дней назад +3

      Marxist Communism*

    • @LordFunzo
      @LordFunzo 14 дней назад

      @@noodleppoodle communal ownership? Who owns something when nobody does? Those with the authority to distribute assets own everything. 'Democratically elected' I hear you cry, maybe I wont distribute food to you unless you vote for me. 'Unjust' you say? 'Treason' I say, off to the goulag with you.

    • @snakeplissken7671
      @snakeplissken7671 14 дней назад

      @@noodleppoodle Under communism, all assets are in the hands of a tiny few and they are untaxed. The government owns everything and pays no taxes. The people own nothing.
      It seems you are the one who does not understand what communism is. You need LESS communism to fix the problem you are talking about.
      The actual problem with western economies is that leftists have discovered you can print money to steal money from the people covertly through money printing (inflation). They then redistribute this money to their cronies and donors, which then gets funneled back to them to fuel their campaigns or pay insane salaries for nebulous "think tank" or board jobs which are just titles. A portion of that printed money is doled out to greedy voters who have their votes for sale to whomever gives them the most goodies; the whole time not knowing they are being paid with their own money.
      So it's a rampant theft/embezzlement/bribery scheme by people who are mostly leftists and commies. That's why you don't own anything and rich people own everything. It has nothing to do with a "failure of capitalism", it has to do with commies getting political power then looting everyone blind and seizing control of all of the assets. . .then they use that stolen asset power to assert their dominance even further for corporate communism/feudalism. A system we're all suffering under now.
      So yeah, your problem is that we have too much communism. Poisoning ourselves even further is not going to make the poison go away.

  • @nickgood8166
    @nickgood8166 14 дней назад +25

    Emily Matlis isn't a journalist, she's an activist.

    • @Bungadin2845
      @Bungadin2845 13 дней назад +1

      Yes…….but she did do a great interview with Prince Andrew

    • @marysmik9812
      @marysmik9812 13 дней назад +5

      @@Bungadin2845 And even better in a famous interview with the Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó. She just fumed with rage pushing her multiculti point of view. 😂

    • @georgethompson453
      @georgethompson453 13 дней назад +3

      A rather stupid one too!

  • @Madoldcatlady
    @Madoldcatlady 14 дней назад +108

    I live in France and it’s been astonishing to hear the ridiculous fear-mongering coming from young socialists. They actually believed music concerts would be prohibited. Art too. We’d have pogroms and the like. One of my daughters acquaintances, is the child of a pair of teachers, one for history, the other English, and the things he’s been claiming should LePen win are the most far-fetched, conspiratorial bunkum I’ve ever heard. I can only imagine his parents have helped him come to these conclusions about RN, which also makes me wonder just how much of their own factually incorrect opinions overflow into their classes.
    Also, when the voting prospectus was posted, the quantity of candidates in left-wing parties, that were teachers or held positions in teaching faculties, was tremendous. Subtle and not so subtle left-wing brainwashing goes on all the time in schools.

    • @MrBannystar
      @MrBannystar 14 дней назад +18

      A lot of leftists come out with the same stupid hyperbole for a lot of things. It's always societally more acceptable to be an ignorant lefty than an informed righty.

    • @drlobomalo
      @drlobomalo 14 дней назад +11

      It's amazing (?) how exactly the same phenomenon is occurring in the US with respect to Trump.

    • @dogwklr
      @dogwklr 13 дней назад

      21st century teachers are a poison to human advancement

    • @marysmik9812
      @marysmik9812 13 дней назад

      We know that wealthy African students attended Western Universities, soaked with marxism, they came back home to Africa, made a revolution and killed half of their own nation.

    • @sheridanpayne5347
      @sheridanpayne5347 13 дней назад

      Yes, and the same scare-mongering is happening in America. Biden's crooked and corrupt administration is more evil than Al Capone, and yet they have the brass neck to say that, if Trump won, he would destroy democracy! Really, they are deranged!!

  • @andrewhotston983
    @andrewhotston983 14 дней назад +232

    Mélenchon is FAR LEFT. Have the courage to say so, Mr Neill.

    • @philipbrackpool-bk1bm
      @philipbrackpool-bk1bm 14 дней назад +24

      Apparently he makes Corbyn look like a Thatcherite.

    • @springwood1331
      @springwood1331 14 дней назад +8

      Quite so

    • @simonmc7875
      @simonmc7875 14 дней назад

      @@andrewhotston983 Hard Far Left... their manifesto is unbelievable. They are mental, if you read what they want to enact.

    • @chrisohanlon69
      @chrisohanlon69 14 дней назад +18

      He did say that.

    • @pepegalego
      @pepegalego 14 дней назад

      Far left doesn't exist...didn't you know? There is only far-right, right, centre, left and more left...Keep up.
      Oh, and remember the left is everything you believe in, everybody else is far right.

  • @gerhard7323
    @gerhard7323 14 дней назад +18

    Macron is about to embody the phrase, 'be careful what you wish for'.

  • @Tsukonin
    @Tsukonin 13 дней назад +14

    The National Rally is not "far-right", it's a fairly centrist or even leftist party compared to the more economically liberal anglosphere countries. It's not too different from Jacques Chirac's line pre-1980s.

  • @alie.m.1474
    @alie.m.1474 14 дней назад +30

    Could someone explain to me how blindly following US foreign policy, which Andrew Neil sees as problematic, has benefited the UK recently? The US pushed for NATO expansion to Ukraine from 2008, Merkel and Sarkozy warned against this as they knew how Russia would react, but US interests reigned supreme. Does Andrew think all the immigrants from Middle East fleeing US wars are beneficial? Hardly any end up in US compared to EU/UK for obvious geographical reasons. Germany committed economic suicide when it stopped purchasing cheap Russian gas, the AFD are as against this war as much as they are immigration. EU put tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles the day after the US. These cars go further than Tesla’s, are great build and are cheaper…And the list goes on.
    Post WWII the idea was EU foreign policy would be aligned with US interests in exchange for US military defence, preventing both extra-European actors and intra-European conflict. Has this really been necessary? I don’t recall needing US troops during the Falklands..instead here we are today as US empire vows to stay hegemonic following blindly a nation who is going to be led by a clearly mentally-incapable octogenarian or Trump who I actually think overall is the better candidate. Perhaps we should reopen the books and see how the world wars started and ask if we
    Really want to join the US in provoking the Russian bear into Nuclear Armageddon….

    • @nellymoo635
      @nellymoo635 13 дней назад +1

      Quality of Chinese ev is questionable.

    • @user-vu1xn9by6e
      @user-vu1xn9by6e 12 дней назад +1

      Fully agree, but does our insane world agree?

    • @christophernunn943
      @christophernunn943 12 дней назад

      @@nellymoo635 Totally agree. It's on record their lower standards like everything else they make are well know for cars spontaneously combusting. Most of the Chinese industrial output is sub standard and cheap and the West is hooked on their junk. This has made China incredibly rich and powerful, ironically they are our enemies not our friends.

  • @jcal258
    @jcal258 14 дней назад +52

    “It’s time to punish Britains 5 million vaccine refuseniks.” - Andrew Neil

    • @nmpolo
      @nmpolo 14 дней назад +3

      When did he say this? As in was that a recent thing or back during the lockdowns etc?

    • @marshallh9
      @marshallh9 14 дней назад +1

      @@jcal258 The flabby jabber 😂😂

    • @brendancorrigan
      @brendancorrigan 14 дней назад

      ​@@nmpoloYes, I wasn't aware of this. If it's true, I can't respect the man at all,
      ruclips.net/video/rJSFd2SPe9I/видео.htmlsi=1oHxFEubnsIhPmvt

    • @Lord_Saruman
      @Lord_Saruman 13 дней назад

      Jabba the Jab w/o Leia lol

    • @user-vu1xn9by6e
      @user-vu1xn9by6e 12 дней назад

      Andrew Neil the Boomersaurus Rex

  • @williammunny4679
    @williammunny4679 14 дней назад +51

    Stop referring to the RN as ‘far right’

    • @jake751
      @jake751 14 дней назад +2

      OK. Faciasts

    • @Madoldcatlady
      @Madoldcatlady 14 дней назад +11

      @@jake751 ooh… that was clever of you! Wow! I wonder how you came up with that retort. 🙄

    • @tonywilliams7152
      @tonywilliams7152 14 дней назад

      It's their job

    • @tomjc147
      @tomjc147 13 дней назад

      @@jake751 ??? Google translate doesn’t work on this.

    • @afterlate8866
      @afterlate8866 13 дней назад

      Le Pen’s economic policies - if you care to check - are actually Socialist.

  • @IMAC1776
    @IMAC1776 14 дней назад +15

    The NR are significantly more popular in France than Starmer’s Labour Party is in Britain.

  • @anonnemo2504
    @anonnemo2504 14 дней назад +68

    The likes of Maitlis and Campbell welcoming this result in France reveals them for the intellectual lightweights that they are, and that goes for much of the rest of the "chattering classes" in the UK too.

    • @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304
      @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 14 дней назад +9

      Despite their love of all things EU, they clearly have no interest in their politics

    • @gerhard7323
      @gerhard7323 14 дней назад

      I'm amazed that these two have ANY credibility left at all.
      On the plus side, at least Maitlis doesn't have the blood of hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis on her hands.
      I would say 'conscience', but Campbell obviously hasn't got one.

    • @gerhard7323
      @gerhard7323 13 дней назад

      @mikesmith1485 Glad your similar comment to mine got through. Mine didn't.

  • @Alert64
    @Alert64 14 дней назад +24

    It was a stitch up between the far left and macrons party and the result defied democratic principles

  • @iaindennis3321
    @iaindennis3321 14 дней назад +12

    1 in 7 people in the UK voted Reform and they got 5 MP’s out of 650 - Democracy?

    • @marysmik9812
      @marysmik9812 13 дней назад +2

      Exactly. The Labour party got 1 seat by 30 thousand votes while Reform needed 800 thousand for 1 seat.

    • @nellymoo635
      @nellymoo635 13 дней назад

      @@marysmik9812 🙃

    • @rodthewelder3360
      @rodthewelder3360 9 дней назад

      As a reform voter I totally agree with you but proportional representation rarely works to get a mojority Goverment. Then you get a hung Parliament.

  • @brigitpimm8488
    @brigitpimm8488 14 дней назад +79

    So radical left not far left. I see.

    • @januarysson5633
      @januarysson5633 14 дней назад +1

      What’s the difference?

    • @richardenders6606
      @richardenders6606 14 дней назад +1

      @brigitpimm8488 - hard radical populist far left, try to keep up

    • @brigitpimm8488
      @brigitpimm8488 14 дней назад +2

      @@januarysson5633 well it's always far right never radical right. Right?

    • @januarysson5633
      @januarysson5633 14 дней назад

      @@brigitpimm8488 Is it? Umm…Okay.

    • @PoliticalBetting-x6c
      @PoliticalBetting-x6c 13 дней назад

      @@richardenders6606 You are silly because you don't understand the words I made up...

  • @Stoddardian
    @Stoddardian 14 дней назад +193

    RN literally got 3 million votes more than NFP.

    • @unrealharry
      @unrealharry 14 дней назад +9

      Every country needs PR - it’s simple and fair.

    • @mralireza931
      @mralireza931 14 дней назад +6

      So what? Do you even know how parliamentary elections work?

    • @John.Doe.272
      @John.Doe.272 14 дней назад

      And now the far left will run the country into the ground, and eventually the "right" will be voted in to fix the problem.

    • @kanglongshankz3313
      @kanglongshankz3313 14 дней назад

      @@mralireza931 I imagine they are implying the electoral system is flawed and not accurately representative of voters.

    • @teriekwilliams2828
      @teriekwilliams2828 14 дней назад +7

      @@unrealharry if elections that cannot produce clear outright majorities and can only form governments via backroom deals is your form of simple and fair go at it. PR in the UK will simply make 2010 to 2024 permanent. But again go at it.

  • @gerhard7323
    @gerhard7323 14 дней назад +16

    Le Pen probably dodged a bullet here, but maybe doesn't quite yet feel she has in the moment.

  • @DavidRobinson-rj2sp
    @DavidRobinson-rj2sp 14 дней назад +21

    FRANCE HAS FALLEN.

  • @ciaronsmith4995
    @ciaronsmith4995 13 дней назад +7

    Just a fun fact.
    The logo on his shirt is of someone playing "Polo".
    That game was invented in Iran, by the Persians.
    Cheers!

  • @maxnewson5704
    @maxnewson5704 14 дней назад +8

    Thank the gods for Andrew Neil's historical knowledge of France. Compare and contrast with almost every other UK commentator's profound ignorance on the subject.

  • @templarmalta9946
    @templarmalta9946 14 дней назад +30

    Sharia and the religious right of islam will sort out the French left. It's only a matter of time.

    • @Solidude4
      @Solidude4 14 дней назад

      @@templarmalta9946 Nope. Muslims still tend to vote left wing because the racism of the right is just worse.

    • @ciaronsmith4995
      @ciaronsmith4995 13 дней назад

      Not really. Iranians in particular are awesome.

    • @bronwenewens1198
      @bronwenewens1198 13 дней назад

      They are. Those in the West are foes of Islamism

  • @janpetersen7440
    @janpetersen7440 14 дней назад +31

    France is in a little more chaos today than yesterday - nothing new in that.

    • @randybackgammon890
      @randybackgammon890 14 дней назад +5

      French 'chaos' has worked pretty well for the common man in my expierence

    • @PopularesVox
      @PopularesVox 14 дней назад

      Not really, it's the end of Macron's reforms to restructure the French economy by instigating cut backs in public expenditure. The French public finance is essentially controlled by the EU and any row back now will place severe strains on the EU budget which is already feeling the effects from a faltering German economy. By facilitating greater influence by the extreme Left within government, the effect will not only harm the French economy which is looking very weak, it will have serious repercussions throughout the European Union. If you think things are bad now, they are about to get a whole lot worse.

  • @jacktanner7738
    @jacktanner7738 13 дней назад +4

    France rushing headlong into oblivion. You can't blame LePen; she tried.

  • @cnrspiller3549
    @cnrspiller3549 14 дней назад +7

    We had better prepare ourselves for thousands of asylum seekers fleeing France... oh, wait.

  • @dannycbe949
    @dannycbe949 14 дней назад +6

    "Western leadership"...? Any actual examples of such a person?

  • @shelleyscloud3651
    @shelleyscloud3651 14 дней назад +22

    The only sensible & informed comment on Sunday’s results I’ve heard yet.

    • @sye601
      @sye601 14 дней назад

      The problem with AN is that he talks a good game....then gets proven to be on the wrong side of reality.

    • @richardenders6606
      @richardenders6606 13 дней назад

      @@sye601 - agreed, strange isn't it?
      His boosting the proposed opening of GBNEWS for months and then flouncing off as soon as it actually did open never did make sense

  • @peterjmcc1953
    @peterjmcc1953 14 дней назад +10

    This is a very wise overview by someone who really understands the situation. This is indeed a very difficult time for the Western nations. They are being shaken.

  • @BrandyHeng007
    @BrandyHeng007 14 дней назад +51

    A nation can only be ruled by Fools if the Fools voted in the Fools.
    🤡

    • @richardenders6606
      @richardenders6606 14 дней назад +1

      @BrandyHeng007 - do people who wished to vote for le Pen last week and then changed their minds because some of the opposition withdrew meet your definition of Fools?

    • @KJ-db7pt
      @KJ-db7pt 14 дней назад +1

      Absolutely correct stated relating to fools

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 14 дней назад

      @@richardenders6606 Fools say there is no God. That’s the Bible definition. And that is the problem with Europe- secularism. It’s inadequate to face Islam because the secular left continually underestimate the power of religion.

    • @g3523jaen
      @g3523jaen 14 дней назад +5

      We are winning. We need more time. Le Pen RN party and allies got in 2022 16% and in 2024 37%. It takes time. We will win.

    • @koala6016
      @koala6016 14 дней назад +1

      Ah yes, democracy is so annoying when you don't like the result.

  • @Kiwiboy1929
    @Kiwiboy1929 14 дней назад +14

    And Starmer wants to bring us back into the EU

    • @mrbaker7443
      @mrbaker7443 14 дней назад

      This time with London in charge…

    • @nellymoo635
      @nellymoo635 13 дней назад

      What a clown.

  • @juliancoulden1753
    @juliancoulden1753 14 дней назад +20

    The uk……,was ahead of the curve when we voted for Brexit

  • @davidcole8268
    @davidcole8268 14 дней назад +65

    Poor Andrew Neil - if they slap a wealth tax on him he’ll have to leave France and return to the UK😢!

    • @user-iz9co4qf6z
      @user-iz9co4qf6z 14 дней назад +14

      And you think Labour aren't thinking about a wealth tax?...

    • @DonBean-ej4ou
      @DonBean-ej4ou 14 дней назад +5

      He might lose some weight.

    • @Beach_comber
      @Beach_comber 14 дней назад +8

      He could move to Belgium. That's what loads of rich French did when the French government introduced a punitive 75% top rate of tax in 2014.

    • @Diamondmine212
      @Diamondmine212 14 дней назад

      No chance SIR Keir and cronies will slab a super tax on folk. AFTER of course the left have made sure their fortunes are safely tucked up in off shore accounts. 👍👍👍👍

    • @stephenwood2172
      @stephenwood2172 14 дней назад

      ​@@user-iz9co4qf6zStarmer is bought and paid for by billionaires. Wouldnt worry about that!

  • @19squidgy75
    @19squidgy75 14 дней назад +46

    The French, always arguing with themselves , nothing has changed.

    • @Isclachau
      @Isclachau 14 дней назад +5

      Yes but this time it’s bad. Very bad

    • @19squidgy75
      @19squidgy75 14 дней назад +2

      @@Isclachau Too many chiefs, not enough Indians, they will sought it out. Maybe if they concentrate more on France 🇫🇷 as opposed to foreign adventures, that could be a good start. End complicity in unnecessary foreign wars, at the behest of the USA 🇺🇸 make peace with former colonies, just be more French in France 🇫🇷

    • @Isclachau
      @Isclachau 14 дней назад +1

      @@19squidgy75 Well I agree but as Mr Neil says that time is not going to be now. Like him I fear for France for the first time in my life and I suspect Le Pen may be sitting pretty in the coming years.

    • @jean-pascalheynemand3271
      @jean-pascalheynemand3271 14 дней назад

      They worship status quo.

    • @19squidgy75
      @19squidgy75 14 дней назад

      @@Isclachau She will eventually become the leader, I don’t think that she will be as bad as the corporate media portray her to be. The incumbents will do and say anything to maintain their power, even if it is to create short term havoc. Once they taste the elixir of the public purse 👛 they find it hard to give up. A good government is one that is stable, and firming lose coalitions to prevent true democratic processes from occurring, is polar opposite to democracy. At the end of the day, if Le Pen makes a mistake, you vote her out.

  • @isabelledetaillefer2726
    @isabelledetaillefer2726 14 дней назад +10

    The Olympics will be a mess.

  • @davetalbot8256
    @davetalbot8256 13 дней назад +4

    We don't get this with the BBC, ITV, SKY etc

  • @Dabhach1
    @Dabhach1 14 дней назад +8

    Am I the only one who thinks Andrew has had a pleasant lunch?

  • @shelleyscloud3651
    @shelleyscloud3651 14 дней назад +14

    Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind…..

  • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
    @alphabetaxenonzzzcat 13 дней назад +3

    Don't worry Andrew - you won't get kicked out of France.

  • @SworBeyE16
    @SworBeyE16 13 дней назад +2

    Alastair Campbell celebrating the apparent victory of French eurocommunism shouldn't come as a surprise whatsoever

  • @harryhill-es5jk
    @harryhill-es5jk 14 дней назад +7

    Labour are going to do the same with nigel and the reform party labour wont stop the boat or mass illegal immigration and that what happpen in france

  • @donaldthomson9411
    @donaldthomson9411 14 дней назад +5

    I always enjoy listening to Mr Neil’s analysis and feel incredibly knowledgable and wise afterwards.

  • @joewalsh4685
    @joewalsh4685 14 дней назад +7

    French politics is like an ice hockey game, fighting more than playing.

  • @nathanielgordon5659
    @nathanielgordon5659 14 дней назад +11

    France has been going south for a decade

    • @atkinsjoe5754
      @atkinsjoe5754 14 дней назад +3

      @@nathanielgordon5659
      Since Mitterrand in the 1980s

    • @foppo101
      @foppo101 14 дней назад

      France won't allow Fascist to take over.

  • @oscarvi3232
    @oscarvi3232 14 дней назад +4

    Don't have a lot of time for Andrew Neil, but I think he is on the money for this event. Freddie Grey, as ever, proves himself to be a consummate interviewer.

  • @ronharris7335
    @ronharris7335 13 дней назад +11

    Why do you call those that are not socialist far right

    • @marysmik9812
      @marysmik9812 13 дней назад +5

      Because the EU is far left so everything else is on the right with this curved left optics.

  • @justinf1343
    @justinf1343 14 дней назад +4

    Please stop using 'far right'.

  • @tonywilliams7152
    @tonywilliams7152 14 дней назад +2

    Europe will look very very different by the end of this century. One way or another.

  • @glenncrookes9775
    @glenncrookes9775 14 дней назад +4

    The Right Is Rising 🇬🇧🗽🇫🇷

  • @wayneyd2
    @wayneyd2 14 дней назад +4

    Biden have brought that same craps here in the United States also.

  • @presterjohn4123
    @presterjohn4123 14 дней назад +6

    I wonder if Freddy does Dudley Moore impressions

  • @MattieGorman
    @MattieGorman 14 дней назад +4

    Andrew Neil says this could be the end of the EU within a year or two? I have to say I was gutted when marine le pens national rally was clearly stitched up yesterday! But this analysis from Andrew neil has cheered me up no end👏

  • @Candolad
    @Candolad 14 дней назад +5

    At 21:15 Andrew Neil daid that to change the Constitution France would "need someone with authority". The only person who fits that description in my opinion is Marine Le Pen.

  • @snorry84
    @snorry84 13 дней назад +3

    Apart from the tripe pro-EU propaganda, this was an interesting interview.

  • @alancooper9632
    @alancooper9632 14 дней назад +4

    What a fascinating interview on French politics . I can't believe I've listened to it being an Englishman, absolutely top hole.

    • @marysmik9812
      @marysmik9812 13 дней назад +1

      My favourite commentator is Gavin Mortimer of The Spectator who lives in France. This morning he spoke with Mike Graham on TalkTV.

  • @S41GON
    @S41GON 13 дней назад +2

    Globalist bros, I don't feel so good...

  • @williamtyndale1402
    @williamtyndale1402 14 дней назад +3

    Andrew please circle back and debate your belief on the rights of"refusenicks"

  • @stephaniesurface8761
    @stephaniesurface8761 14 дней назад +7

    Thanks Andrew Neil for an excellent comment. Wonder if you are going to move to Tuscany soon. Seems Italy with Meloni is the only stable place in Europe for the next few years. Germany also will have a rocky road in front of it next year…

    • @davidcole8268
      @davidcole8268 14 дней назад +2

      @@stephaniesurface8761 Meloni a class act. The only western European leader with balls.

  • @daviddorward7684
    @daviddorward7684 13 дней назад +2

    Very clear and informed discussion. I particularly liked, as a historically minded Canadian, the references to the 4th. Republic and the disastrous governments/decisions which gave France and the world The Battle of Algiers and Dien Bien Phu.

  • @larrydugan1441
    @larrydugan1441 14 дней назад +2

    "How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese"…?

  • @Polemicist0
    @Polemicist0 14 дней назад +4

    Well, what a truly amazing surprise that the staunch Conservative Party supporting journalist / broadcaster, Mr Andrew Neil, said it was a "good thing" that the leader of Marine Le Pen's National Rally Party was unable to actually form a French coalition government.

  • @zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz161
    @zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz161 14 дней назад +4

    Cheers to you sir, your knowledge of french politics is impressive 👍
    Macron has been more destructive to France than all the former presidents of the Fifth French Republic combined. France is on a very bad course...

    • @marysmik9812
      @marysmik9812 13 дней назад

      Globalists like Macron don´t bother France because they feel as the world leaders.

  • @jonathanayres6005
    @jonathanayres6005 13 дней назад +2

    Was 1999 peak strength of the West? Russia was dissolved as a power, China was not the industrial powerhouse, work force age was on average younger, the state was less authoritarian, mass migration was still relatively low and there was minimal threat of Islamic terrorism in the West.

  • @evolassunglasses4673
    @evolassunglasses4673 13 дней назад +2

    Capitalism and Socialism working together to keep Nationalism out.

  • @DeeClarke-lg1hp
    @DeeClarke-lg1hp 14 дней назад +9

    Loving the 2005 Ashes print.

    • @Steve-xl1en
      @Steve-xl1en 12 дней назад +1

      lol that was the first thing that got my attention

  • @Nnomadd
    @Nnomadd 14 дней назад +4

    I guess chaos is a low threshold for reporters

  • @user-ru4ks1rb6s
    @user-ru4ks1rb6s 13 дней назад +2

    Capital is already fleeing France. Voters do not understand the consequences of their choice. That is the sad thing.

  • @xxczerxx
    @xxczerxx 14 дней назад +2

    I hate to say it but it feels like the ship has sailed to bring back any sense of the nation state or conservatism in any real sense in Europe.
    The current trajectory is going to further widen the wealth gap, kill all sense of culture and national pride in these nations, and further create festering tension between increasingly disparate communities.
    All the while, more people shift further right in desparation...my question is why did it have to come to this? Why could we never have reasonable discussions about this over the last decade?

  • @Jules-Is-a-Guy
    @Jules-Is-a-Guy 14 дней назад +3

    Outstanding discussion, thanks very much.

  • @phyllisbiram5163
    @phyllisbiram5163 14 дней назад +2

    A simply wonderful analysis from Neil, as politically astute as ever.

  • @HMASJervisBay
    @HMASJervisBay 12 дней назад +1

    Why do they have trees along the Champs-Élysées? So the Germans can march in the shade.

  • @johnkingston1337
    @johnkingston1337 14 дней назад +2

    Guess we’ll see how long this far left coalition will last and whether the lack of a functioning government won’t just breed greater support for Le Pen in the upcoming presidential elections..

  • @gameram6382
    @gameram6382 14 дней назад +13

    This will be the uk in 3 years.

    • @tonywilliams7152
      @tonywilliams7152 14 дней назад

      Nah. The brits are subjects and do as they are told.

  • @bazrax7932
    @bazrax7932 14 дней назад +3

    Watch The Day of the Jackal. A great film about the time Andrew is talking about the De Gaulle. It still holds up to this day.

  • @DonPedroTheDude
    @DonPedroTheDude 14 дней назад +2

    Arguably, the likely two years chaos could be worse than simply having cohabitation between RN and Macron.

  • @ChrisVaughan-gj7ve
    @ChrisVaughan-gj7ve 14 дней назад +3

    Always heartbreaking when the French get themselves in a right old pickle

  • @AbcDino843
    @AbcDino843 13 дней назад +2

    This is all too delightful to watch, including the Labour's "landslide" in Britain. Europe is decomposing itself.

  • @chris.fyourman2648
    @chris.fyourman2648 14 дней назад +2

    Andrew Neil knows his onions. Other journalists should take note

  • @michaelgilday
    @michaelgilday 14 дней назад +38

    Andrew Neil "If France goes south so does Europe." let's hope that happens then.

    • @gusgone4527
      @gusgone4527 14 дней назад +10

      @@peterholden3672 Sadly, before things get better they must get worse.

    • @ianmedford4855
      @ianmedford4855 14 дней назад

      Andrew Neil has fully participated in the destruction of western society. He's been on board with all of it, from the Trump bad, to "safe and effective", to Ukrainian flags, to disarming western populations, and all the rest. This dude is a clown.

    • @mikepost8965
      @mikepost8965 14 дней назад

      Holden3672 still brits wishing harm on nations in the EU.

    • @simony2801
      @simony2801 14 дней назад +4

      @@gusgone4527 that makes no sense, a strong and stable eu is Europe’s future.

    • @mrbaker7443
      @mrbaker7443 14 дней назад

      @@peterholden3672If the continental neighbours literally went south the English Channel would be too wide for the refugee dinghies…
      😂
      Bit you have a serious point.

  • @derekspitz9225
    @derekspitz9225 14 дней назад +3

    'The new popular front' or 'the popular new front' or the 'people's popular front'? They're all spliters. Ocelot's spleen anyone?

  • @colingourley1222
    @colingourley1222 13 дней назад +1

    I am an admirer of Andrew Neil. I have no idea why his This Week programme was axed by the BBC late on Thursday night. His insight is illuminating.

  • @stevev238
    @stevev238 9 дней назад

    Andrew's breadth and depth of knowledge in political history is second to none, and results in more depth of analysis than we find elsewhere. Arguably the best British editor in my lifetime.

  • @lastshelter5550
    @lastshelter5550 14 дней назад +13

    Can we really call France a democracy? Or even Britain? We both have millions of people not represented in their leadership

    • @WallaseyanTube
      @WallaseyanTube 14 дней назад +1

      In the UK all the constituents are represented by their MP.

    • @thegoodpimps
      @thegoodpimps 14 дней назад

      You can’t be so toxic in a democracy that people vote against you. If there’s and in group and an out group the election ends up lost because the more votes you get the more votes the opponent gets.

  • @Insaanich1
    @Insaanich1 14 дней назад +4

    Wow. Good explanation 👏👏👍💕🙏 thank you 🙏

  • @edwinlemus8530
    @edwinlemus8530 13 дней назад +1

    "No able to government" the pain of democracy. Live with it.

  • @Ghost-airlines
    @Ghost-airlines 13 дней назад +1

    This was an excellent analysis, btw , high quality, thanks for that 👍

  • @Stoddardian
    @Stoddardian 14 дней назад +28

    The French right needs to start thinking about going full revolutionary.

    • @Oxnaforda
      @Oxnaforda 14 дней назад

      Well unlike the revolution of 18th century the majority of the people dont support the " revolutionaries" they are a minority and will remain so, as the fascists for the most part always have been. They cant win democratically

    • @dpstrial
      @dpstrial 14 дней назад +3

      As in the UK and maybe the USA, it's gone beyond the ballet box.

    • @stephenwood2172
      @stephenwood2172 14 дней назад +4

      You realise this can only mean Nazism?!

    • @willmcgeady4618
      @willmcgeady4618 14 дней назад +4

      No, that is simply fascism. Do u even hear urself??

    • @Stoddardian
      @Stoddardian 14 дней назад +1

      @@stephenwood2172 Yes, and?

  • @akashpaul6891
    @akashpaul6891 14 дней назад +3

    add on top the fiscal situation in the western countries, the fall of an empire beckons

  • @harrygmattin
    @harrygmattin 8 дней назад

    Best political video I’ve watched in a long time. What a fabulous understanding Andrew has and as far as I’m concerned, the BBC has never been the same since Andrew stopped doing This Week.

  • @sydshrimp
    @sydshrimp 13 дней назад +1

    Wow Andrew Neil! We would never have guessed!

  • @Vangough792
    @Vangough792 14 дней назад +8

    How are they gonna sustain retirement age at 60?

  • @hugedongster
    @hugedongster 14 дней назад +6

    I want to buy the same shirt as Andrew, but I'm struggling to make out the logo. Can anyone help me identify it, please?

    • @Dude0000
      @Dude0000 14 дней назад +3

      Yeah, I like the subtlety of it, too.

    • @paulross225
      @paulross225 14 дней назад +2

      I think it's a Fred Perry shirt.

    • @hugedongster
      @hugedongster 14 дней назад +1

      @paulross225 thanks a million been searching all over

    • @dcukprof
      @dcukprof 14 дней назад

      Polo. Ralph Lauren usually just a small picture

    • @paulross225
      @paulross225 14 дней назад +1

      @dcukprof Only girls wear Ralph Lauren!
      Just sayin!