Macron was billed as the 'moderate candidate' in the 2017 French presidential election but there's nothing moderate about this authoritarian who has transformed France into a police state under the guise of countering a virus.
A few weeks ago, I was in the picturesque Suffolk coastal resort of Southwold. There is a large mural of the novelist George Orwell - who once lived there - at the entrance of the renovated pier. It couldn't have been a more appropriate moment to be reminded of the author of '
1984' for, in 2021, we are truly living in Orwellian times.
Almost everything we are being told is an inversion of the truth. Extreme policies are being enacted across much of the Western world by those claiming to be 'moderates', while those who oppose the removal of basic, inalienable human freedoms and making them conditional on taking a new-on-the-market vaccine, or proving one's 'health status', are the ones being labelled 'extremists' - and categorised by the elite's propagandists as either 'far-right' or 'hard-left'.
Nowhere is this better illustrated than in France.
It is now obligatory to present a 'Pass sanitaire' - proving you have been vaccinated or tested negative for Covid-19 or have recovered from the virus, to gain access to cafes, restaurants, health centres, libraries, department stores, long-distance trains and a whole host of public places.
France has gone from a relatively free society to a 1940s-style 'Where are your papers?' state in an incredibly short time and without any proper parliamentary scrutiny or public debate. Macron the 'moderate' has turned into Macron the dictator.
Comment: With a number of high profile and rather suspect murders in Ukraine recently, along with Kiev's repeated violations of the ceasefire in Donbass, it would appear that the situation in the country is worsening, which does not bode well for its citizens. Perhaps foreseeing this, Russia has recently upped its game in attempting to hold Ukraine to account: