{"id":9929,"date":"2019-07-25T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2019-07-24T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:22:42","slug":"french-resistance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9929\/","title":{"rendered":"French Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heh<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Teen activist Greta Thunberg has lashed out at French lawmakers for mocking her in a speech to parliament that was boycotted by far-right politicians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Far-right, eh?<\/p>\n

Ms Thunberg, whose solo protest outside the Swedish Parliament inspired the school climate strike movement, has been lauded for her emotive speeches to politicians.<\/p>\n

But lawmakers from French parties, including the conservative Republicans and far-right National Rally, said they would shun her speech in the National Assembly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So not just the far-right, then. Ordinary conservatives as well, those representing French men and women who might not like being lectured to by weird Swedish teenagers.<\/p>\n

Urging his colleagues to boycott Ms Thunberg’s speech, leadership candidate for The Republicans, Guillaume Larrive, wrote on Twitter: “We do not need gurus of the apocalypse.”<\/p>\n

Other French legislators hurled insults at Ms Thunberg ahead of her speech, calling her a “prophetess in shorts” and the “Justin Bieber of ecology”.<\/p>\n

Republicans MP Julien Aubert, who is also contending for his party’s leadership, suggested Ms Thunberg should win a “Nobel Prize for Fear”.<\/p>\n

Speaking to France 2 television, Jordan Bardella, an MEP for the National Rally, equated Ms Thunberg’s campaigning efforts to a “dictatorship of perpetual emotion”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Say what you like about the French, but at least their politicians seem broadly representative of everyone in society. Contrast this with the UK: who among our political classes was representing the tens of millions of people who thought this Thunberg brat had no business addressing parliament?<\/p>\n

Members of other parties, such as the Greens and French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist En Marche, were more supportive of her appearance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, yes. They’re representative of the wealthy Metropolitan elites who have no problem whacking up the living costs of those in the provinces in order to engage in Earth-worship.<\/p>\n

Speaking in English, Ms Thunberg said…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure that went down well, too.<\/p>\n

Ms Thunberg has been harshly attacked by journalists and trolls on Twitter, but politicians usually use more measured rhetoric when criticising her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s French politicians for you. Good for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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