Saturday, September 3, 2016

Le Pen Promises EU Referendum

I've been wondering when the next shoe would drop, perhaps it just did. See an Associated Press headline as carried by Yahoo News.
Le Pen promises French referendum on EU if elected president
Marine Le Pen admires Brexit - the Brits' courage to exit. The article describes her ideas.
The leader of France's far-right National Front set the tone for her campaign for the French presidency Saturday, calling to fight an Islamist "offensive" and promising to hold a nationwide referendum on European Union membership if she is elected next spring.

The far-right candidate for the April-May election pledged to back the "France of the forgotten, the abandoned and the voiceless."

Le Pen branded the rise of Islamic fundamentalism as the "new totalitarianism of the 21st century" and suggested terrorists were hiding among migrants.
Doesn't it sound like she borrowed "the forgotten, the abandoned, and the voiceless" line from Trump's convention acceptance speech? If it's not his exact words, for sure it's his concept. I remember him saying "I will be your voice."