Dinner Menu:
- Coquelets au four
- Pommes de terre sautées
- Carotte à la crème
- Salade verte
- Fromages
- Glaces Ben & Jerry's
Another day of confrontation between the Gilets Jaunes and the Police. Another day of being inside the "secure enclave" that is put into place around the Elysée Palace. Although I have expressed my limited sympathy for the movement I understand why the complete lack of an appropriate response from the government is stoking up frustration. I don't think the state should necessarily give in to the disparate and uncoordinated demand of the movement but they should be at least recognising the need for more radical change. We don't need another country to fall to populism. If Macron doesn't want to finish his mandate as a lame duck President like his predecessor he needs to address the desperation that is being expressed. Most of these issues only have long term solutions but you don't get an opportunity to implement the longer term solutions if you don't do visible short term measures that give people hope.
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