Macron disaster ‘CRUSHES Remainers’ FANTASY’: EU hero has ’come CRASHING back to Earth’
EMMANUEL Macron has come “crashing back down to Earth” after his Paris riots crisis, which looks set to crush “the Remainers’ fantasy” of the EU poster boy, a critic has blasted.
By REBECCA PERRING
Express.co.uk
Tue, Dec 4, 2018
Mark Almond, director of the Crisis Research Institute in Oxford, launched a scathing attack on the French centrist president after he was forced in to an embarrassing U-turn following violent protests at the weekend, which saw protestors turn Paris into a battle zone against his fuel tax rises. He said every successful president “needed a bedrock of support”, adding: “And in the absence of one, Macron has come crashing back down to earth. “His popularity has nosedived and France ablaze with protests by the Gilets Jaunes – or Yellow Vests – which erupted, initially, over a planned rise in the tax on petrol and diesel”. The Yellow Vest protests pose the most formidable challenge yet to Mr Macron’s presidency.
The revolt caught Emmanuel Macron by surprise, when the yellow vests torched cars, looted boutiques and smashed up private homes and cafes in some of Paris’s most affluent neighbourhoods.
And today his government was forced into an embarrassing climbdown, with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe saying he had no choice but to suspend planned fuel tax hikes.
Mr Almond accused Remainers of wanting a “its own Macron” in the UK – but insisted this would be “dangerous”.
Writing for the Daily Telegraph, he accused Mr Macron – who he described as “last year’s saviour of Europe” – of being a “an obdurate defender of an elite agenda” in the wake of the violent clashes in Paris.
He said: “Last year’s saviour of Europe has turned out to be an obdurate defender of an elite agenda which offends vast swathes of Right, Left and not least centre.
“By making Macron their standard-bearer, the EU’s leaders risked backing a bubble waiting to burst.
“This is the EU which Remainers wish us to rejoin, ideally with the UK electing a Macron of its own.
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