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welcome to Sputnik orbiting the world

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with me George Galloway and me day three

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it's a moot point whether president

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macron or president Trump will tumble

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into the 20% of public approval first

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the French Tony Blair hit the barn door

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of defeating marine lepen easily enough

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after both the French Conservative Party

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and the French Labour Party failed to

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make the final runoff but it's been 100

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days since he was the main man who came

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from nowhere and who created a party out

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of nothing I am here the future not just

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for France but for all of us the

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collapse into centrism or as some might

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put it into the void help us with that

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then dr. Russell Foster of King's

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College London our man for all things

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European welcome back dr. Russell macron

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36 percent in the polls and falling is

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he a dead duck or is this something that

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must be expected this early well to

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understand microns slide in the polls I

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think it's first of all important to

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understand the context in which Makran

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emerged as you pointed out the collapse

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of the two mainstream parties which was

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similar to what we saw in the Italian

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referendum in December and the Dutch

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election earlier this year macron

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emerged as a centrist candidate who was

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able to create an image of appealing

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across the political spectrum very

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similar to marine lepen

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now because Makran came from such a

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young party with no experience it seemed

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inevitable that sooner or later his

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honeymoon period with the French

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electorate would end and as we've seen

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in the last six weeks his approval

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ratings have taken quite a plummet of

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dropping 10 to 12 points in the space of

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just over a month now a significant

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cause of this is that macron in my

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opinion did not win because he was the

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choice of the French people he wouldn't

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because he was the lesser of two evils

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running against the front Nacional

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you'll recall that during the campaign

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the supporters of jean-luc mélenchon and

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Benoit Hammond were chanting a little

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sleep a slogan that was little seen in

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the British press there was navantia

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near ceased we want neither a banker nor

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a racist and so for many of the French

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electorate macron was a preferable

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choice to the front nasiha now now that

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he's quite brutally defeated to the

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front Nationale in the presidential

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elections and the National Assembly

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elections his honeymoon period does seem

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to be coming to an end

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however he has accomplished quite a lot

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in that time which can give us some

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indication of the sort of presidency

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that Makran is going to operate for the

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next few years

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tell me first though I expected him to

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win the presidency in the brutal way

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that he did I didn't expect him to win

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the parliamentary elections as

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convincing after all he was actually

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leading a party that prior to that had

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not even existed this is a something

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that none of us expected so the only

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precedent we had for a presidential

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runoff between the front nacional and

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another party was the 2002 election in

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which Jacques Chirac wiped the floor

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with Sean marine lepen so it seems that

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the very toxicity are from Nacional

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meant that macron was going to win by

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default but like you I thought that by

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the time of the National Assembly

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elections we would see the front

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Nacional making quite significant

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inroads along with the supporters of

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himand socialists and melon Sean what is

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surprising is that on Marsh which as you

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pointed out came out of nowhere has won

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quite a staggering victory in the

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National Assembly now I think a lot of

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this is to do with Francis

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dissatisfaction at a string of

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governments and presidents who are who

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have appeared less and less capable of

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uniting the various factions of France

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we saw that Sarkozy was charming and

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charismatic but mired in sleaze we saw

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that Francois Hollande was well-meaning

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but quite weak and ended up with the

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lowest approval ratings in the fifth

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republics history so a large part of his

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of macrons nationalism

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victory is due to the French people

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wanting a stable president and a stable

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national assembly which can pass the

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legislation which France so badly needs

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also a lot of this has to do with the

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manner in which macron is running his

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own party more and more he is appearing

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as quite a monarchical leader of all

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Marche the 478 candidates that he put

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forward for all Marche in the

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parliamentary elections were hand-picked

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by him rather than in internal elections

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like the other parties so he's been able

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to maneuver the right people into the

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right seats and let's not forget that

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macron as much as he's new to politics

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he is demonstrated in the campaign and

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in the last hundred days that he is very

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very clever at playing the French

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political system and picking candidates

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not standing for much sounds a bit Tony

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Blair this is why I think his approval

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is starting to slip a little bit

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he appeared as Frances Saviour as

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Europe's Savior at a moment when it

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seemed that French politics were a

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choice between the failed establishment

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and what used to be a hard right party

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vote has now just become a generic

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anti-foreigner party so he was able to

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appeal to people who wanted something

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stable something mainstream but as he

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point out the fact that he's appealing

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quite broadly means that he's not

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actually satisfying much of the

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electoral wider centimeter deep

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precisely so some of his strategies that

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we saw in the early days of his

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presidency such as reaching out to the

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other parties in order to appoint top

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cabinet positions these were politically

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very very intelligent moves in order to

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try and unite the disparate factions of

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France however what he cannot get past

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is the fact that in the first round of

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the French elections three-quarters of

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the French electorate voted against him

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because they didn't want him and now

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with marine lepen thrown under the bus

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by her own party and no real opposition

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leaders to macron he is now becoming a

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figurehead a symbolic figure for the

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French people to invest their continuing

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dissatisfaction in well the the big

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surprise for me

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if you think about that presidential

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vote melon Shawn got 20% so if he'd got

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just a few percent more would have been

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him up against marine lepen would have

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been Tony Benn + versus marine lepen

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that would have been an election worth

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going across to work in he did very

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poorly in the parliamentary elections it

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seems as if he was a figure but the

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people didn't Francie is party much

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there could be a connection here between

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what we've seen in the United Kingdom

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over brexit and what we saw in the

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Netherlands over there election that in

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the early stages this was politically

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highly polarized with people demonizing

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the other side but now that a decision

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has been made we may be seeing in France

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the same who's who saw in Britain with

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the adamant remain as accepting the

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decision in the Netherlands with the

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adamant builders supporters now giving

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their tacit support to a government

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which is still akattak and formed one

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yet so it could simply be this case that

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they that they ham owned a melon Shan

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supporters acknowledged that they've

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lost and it makes more sense to get

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behind a moderate centrist like macron

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rather than to continue making

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difficulties because making difficulties

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in the national assembly is going to

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benefit one group alone and that's the

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front Nacional because they are very

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much a minority now like a builder's

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party yeah like the hard core of you

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Cape which still exists they are now in

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the very advantageous position that they

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can sit back and snipe at every one of

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macrons intended reforms and policies

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without themselves having to take any

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blame

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so macrons

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success in the parliamentary elections

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could turn out to be a hindrance for him

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further down the line and that there

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will be a vocal minority in the National

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Assembly the buck stops with him exactly

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and they can just sit back and say

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essentially we told you so what's

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happened to the front national it's

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imploded essentially because marine

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made this such a personal party it was

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focused very much around the figure of

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the leader around marine lepen she is

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now discredited

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because she failed to to get through in

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the second round of the elections and so

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her niece has essentially pushed her out

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of the party

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so the from nacional is a little bit

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like you Kip at the moment was a bit

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turned on her we see this a lot in

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it's almost Miliband dish and it's quite

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ironic that macrons University thesis as

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a student was on Machiavelli's so that

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seems to know quite well how well if I

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know tell us in closing what are the

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main things that macaron has done in his

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first hundred days and what's he likely

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to do next well he's had successes and

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failures so his successors have been

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reaching out to other parties in order

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to unite them into a Coalition of the

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Willing he has had some defeat while not

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defeats but difficult moments the most

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emphatic one was the resignation of

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general de Villiers as the chief of

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staff at the French military because of

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macrons proposals for a 650 million euro

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reduction to the military budget and

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we're also seeing a difficult Foreign

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and next month we're going to see

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difficulties with him in Germany

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macrons big test is going to be in the

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next three months over the summer it's

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the beginning of the protests and the

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inevitable riots against his proposed

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labor reforms which will make it easy at

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a higher people but make it easier to

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fire people as well so we're going to

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see a lot of protests against that and

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we're going to see macron dealing with

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whatever has been the outcome of the

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German election to see whether his

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intended proposals for European reform

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are going to be carried through on a

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franco-german coalition or whether

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they're going to fall at the first

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hurdle so not necessarily rose petals in

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front of him could be a long hot winter

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actually of labour discontent and nobody

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in a car in a country with rising

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unemployment with difficult domestic

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political situations macron is going to

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be faced with some very difficult times

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just as well they've got rid of all

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those cobblestones in the streets of

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Paris your students are lucky to have

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you well foster thanks for joining us on

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the sputnik thank you after the break as

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the u.s. begins to fall apart at the

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racial seams

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what is next on the front line between

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Russia and the USA stay tuned welcome

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back to Sputnik at the time of making

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this recording Donald Trump is still

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President of the United States but he

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may not be much longer as his deep state

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enemies swarm around him Donald Trump

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made a potentially fatal error over

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Charlottesville it may have achieved a

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critical mass of disapproval that's this

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internal crisis make the u.s. less

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dangerous to the rest of the world or

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more dangerous joining us to discuss it

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is dr. Thomas Pearson ik a writer on

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Artie's op edge and editor of the London

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progressive journal and also a junior

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hospital doctor who's just come off

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shift after just a couple of hours sleep

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that you won't be able to tell doctor

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thanks for squeezing us into your

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extremely busy professional life many

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people think that the complete mayhem in

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Washington where nobody seems to stay in

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their job for more than five minutes

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well the president sometimes appears to

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be ready to fire himself all of these

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tax as if he wants to be fired and

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everyone stabbing each other in the back

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the party system has collapsed many

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people think that's good because they

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won't be able to pay much attention to

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the rest of us that's not necessarily

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true is it you're right George thank you

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about me on the show why should it be

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here I'm you're absolutely right the

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u.s. is an empire in decline it's a slow

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decline but nevertheless it isn't

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decline and actually like a like a

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cornered animal it's most dangerous when

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it's cornered and I mean the US is going

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down but the problem is it might take

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some all the world with it well that I

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mean you meet that almost as a quip but

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it's true over North Korea yeah if if

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Donald Trump like dr. Strangelove claims

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astride a nuclear bomb and wearing a

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cowboy hat descends shouting we on his

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way into Pyongyang Russia and China will

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will respond in in a nuclear way they're

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bound to if you fire a nuclear weapon at

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their next-door neighbor there's only

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one way that that can end and it's not

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actually all that fantastical is it

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absolutely not and it's not just Russia

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and China that reported North Korea

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South Korea Seoul where the which is the

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u.s. Li and it's also pushing for war

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with North Korea they would also be

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obliterated the Seoul the capital of

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South Korea is only about a hundred

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miles from the earth yes Korean South

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you all forget that so if anyone comes

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bombed North Korea North Korea could be

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there an afternoon mmm precisely and

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North Korea will no doubt she'll South

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Korea over artillery and bomb them also

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very bomb any nuclear bomb is dropped in

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North Korea South Korea goes up in

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flames

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part of parts of China and Russia

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bordering North Korea will stir Goffin

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flames I mean to put it like that you'd

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think that can't possibly happen but

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Trump is proving that anything is

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possible isn't he absolutely and it's

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not just in North Korea where the

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problems are occurring no I've seen on

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escalations in Syria Ukraine I mean Adam

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if leaders all started under Obama but I

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think the u.s. is exclusive power and

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it's desperately trying to hold on it's

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desperately trying to hold on to power

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and behave me more more irrationally and

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more ethically but sometimes it's make

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the point that he was not going into

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this foreign adventures like his

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predecessors that's true he actually

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held back and he some being quite

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reluctant to arm to give offensive

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weapons to the Ukrainian government he's

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also mentioned recently there's going to

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pull back on Armenian the moderates or

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slightly slightly us moderate nicest

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terrorists in Syria however the problem

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is some Trump is himself he has a hands

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tied but a deep state the the media the

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intelligence organizations the power of

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the M of the of the Congress and Senate

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they are pushing into war if you think

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for example when when we had that went

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from female Saucony bombed the air base

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in Syria after the alleged attack

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chemical attack of a shake on it shake

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can't shake hoon doesn't know evidence

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of course for that but nevertheless

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trump him order a tomahawk strike

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against them over dinner with the

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Chinese President yeah he even told us

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what he was eating when he gave the when

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he pressed the button that's right thing

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you've referred to it's after dinner

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entertainment yes though several people

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lost their lives civilians and Syrian

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soldiers like but of course it's

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different because after in the death he

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went out he went up in this theme of the

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Democrats you end up and he's steamin

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liberals they're very liberals who are

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criticizing him for homophobia misogyny

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all alike suddenly thought hey this is a

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good guy he's doing exactly what Clinton

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would have done what Obama did this

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dichotomy is mystifying the deep state

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is busily devouring him there are little

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alike piranha fish devouring him and yet

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he continues to do the things that they

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want him to do presumably in the forlorn

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hope that they'll stop eating him but

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he's already too too far eaten it seems

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to me why doesn't he do something

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different instead I mean he could do but

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I think he's trying to swing both ways

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he's trying to um if you see if you did

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something different you'll actually for

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example said I'm making peace of Russia

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I'm gonna develop it relations with

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Russia I'm not gonna arm terrorists and

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in Syria I'm not gonna support the

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Ukrainian regime you could find yourself

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impeached a lot faster no let's talk

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about the Ukraine and then I want to ask

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you about sanctions the the cool

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government in Ukraine they are John

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McCain and the president the

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administration before this of President

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Obama's

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friends you're right Trump is less

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willing it would appear to fight Russia

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on the Ukrainian front but nonetheless

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armed conflict still continues there and

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it is one of the great flash points in

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the world

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this time there's a person conflicted on

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bass the problem is portion called the

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president he's in a difficult position

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because the far-right fascist to help

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him get the power they're pushing him

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for war and totally they wants to total

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obliteration genocide on people in

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Thomas however portion connotes a

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Ukrainian army is far too weak to defeat

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them

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the rebels who are now much better armed

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and interesting enough allot the the

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enforcement of Russian got a lot the

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weapons from Ukraine and because they're

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kind of soldiers many fled the

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battlefield they left off the weapons

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behind and those weapons in turn came

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from NATO so the the rebels in eastern

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actually arm down by NATO weapons they

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now have metal weapons to fight back so

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they can actually a Ukraine now and you

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na me quite a bloody nose and actually

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and Poconos if the invades again you

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might be not only the end of the US but

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the end of Ukraine

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what's Ukraine well that's an

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interesting point is Ukraine as a single

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state viable in the long term or are

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these regions that have more or less

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declared themselves as independent

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countries is that problem going to grow

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can the Ukraine be reunited should it be

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reunited possibly if it's real I said it

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might be the reuniting might occur with

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other reasons joined the Russia because

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at the moment Ukraine's economies and

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catters the civil rights couldn't Lee go

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on that window you can be there's

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posters up in Ukraine saying you can be

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arrested and put prison for being quote

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separatist and as opposed to saying cool

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even phone numbers saying call this

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number if you're if you see a separate

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if you Leonora sir if you know

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separatist

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except for this is someone basically

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who's against the regime so of course we

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the media will in the Western media toss

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not about Russia's so-called done human

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rights abuses but I have not seen a

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single report and recently at least

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we're saying that you can get be

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important person for several years for

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criticizing the regime thank you know of

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course there's more than one way to skin

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a cat there's more than one way to have

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a war quarantine economic sanctions are

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themselves a kind of war there's no loss

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of appetite on the part of Trump's us

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for continuing to sanction Russia even

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though it's damaging to the European

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countries and particularly damaging to

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Germany which has a crucial

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parliamentary election coming up what

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can you tell us about the state of the

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sanctions war oh it's you

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and the sanctions say I'm infected as

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you mentioned you also affected on the

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EU countries much more than a half

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Russia America is not really affected

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because it's too far too far away so

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America doesn't care so much about

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sanctions Russia actually since

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essentially so put in place a few years

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ago and they actually relied more on

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domestic produce actually the Russian

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farmers are benefited if a crush is

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actually switch thwarted domestic

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production and also it's may stronger

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economic ties make strong economic ties

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with the countries to these to the

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Russia like China the EU has lost

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billions however Germany in particular

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there's lost billions that's why it's

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number of junctions and Italian

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politicians who are anti sanctions and

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desperately campaigning and lobbying the

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new parliament to cut the sanctions that

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if you look at the North North stream

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pipeline for example America actually

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said that they're going to punish any EU

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companies that collaborate with Russia

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on building a pipeline so essentially it

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shows how quickly miracle of thirst

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allies so-called allies I'm the robust

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well this is a part of German capital in

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particular and indeed since the end of

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the Second World War

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for obvious reasons and more so since

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the reunification of Germany it's kind

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of no brainer that Germany can only

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benefit from good relations with Russia

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and the US are determined to spoil that

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and it's amazing that Merkel has gone

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along with it as far as she has in the

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run-up to the elections that could begin

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to be a real election issue couldn't she

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might not win another term I think I'm

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it depends also it depends on a couple

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things one thing is do the leaders of

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Germany and the other EU nations do they

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love the people more than they hate

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Russia or are they willing to go along

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with sanctions at the detrimental that

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people there are businesses if they do

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they economies will collapse if I do

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America's bidding their economies

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collapse and Britain for example may I

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mean depending whether are they managed

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to push through or not whether if they

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find a way around it Britain may well

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have it for exit in 2019 so Britain

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itself is gonna need some more meat to

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make new friends and trade partners so

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it's like if Britain had any sense that

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would be making better

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because Britain's going to have to look

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for its own arrangements its own deals

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with countries like Russia and others

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look it's been marvelous having you back

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and the fact that you've hardly been to

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bed after a long shift is a junior

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doctor makes your performance all the

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more creditable thanks very much

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Tomas for coming on the selection and

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now it's your turn to tell us what you

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think through the portals of social

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media what's rattling Gayatri well we

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had a good debate going on on the

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question whether macaron and his

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centrist party is actually the model for

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Europe's future Steven Robertson says I

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will be surprised if macaron is still in

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power Christmas 2017 nevermind post

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brexit Chewbacca says no thanks we had

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this kind of nonsense 20 years ago when

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Blair came into being France

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ought to catch up otherwise they will

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regret it but we also have you

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Appenzeller saying he has a uniting and

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healing power to refocus on our core

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European values after World War Two and

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we should all be proud of that well I'm

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not sure what our core European values

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after all are two but one shouldn't

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underestimate macron any more than it

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was correct to underestimate Tories well

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the reason we're still talking about

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tony blair is because he was really very

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good at it and he won three elections

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albeit losing a few million votes along

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the way and if you manage to extract

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from your mind the disaster of iraq and

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so on you could say that for a while he

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was a very successful act and so it was

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an act that's a very key point and

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macron is to enact but and that can go

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for quite some time that's right in the

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absence of a credible alternative act or

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alternative force and that's what

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surprised actually I'm very surprised

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I'm surprised that the collapse of the

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I'm surprised that the collapse of melon

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Chong Wei came within an ace of being

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the president of France and then his his

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parliamentary election performance was

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so poor its left macron in quite strong

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position but of course he stands for

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nothing like Blair stood for nothing and

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ultimately that's got to get found out

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so you'll definitely still be there at

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Christmas 2017 in fact you'll definitely

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serve out his whole term but I predict a

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lot of trouble on the streets of France

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over this winter house and stuff in

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supermarkets they do it in a way that no

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one else can do it that's right well

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that's all the time we've got for the

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tweets today which alas means that's the

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end of the show but you can stay in

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touch with us on Facebook Sputnik on

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put Nick it's goodbye from me Gayathri

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and for me George Galloway it's been

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marvelous

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you