I think the wind of change is still there R - regarding France, and paraphrasing my daily read of choice The Daily Mash 'there was huge relief when only 11 million voted for a racist'. Maybe I'm guilty of climbing on my PC hobby horse again but the wind of change has seen the silent minority find their voice and the world suddenly realising that 'minority' doesn't mean a quarter of one per cent of nothing much, but a bloody big percentage, one that can't be ignored/dismissed.
On a sort of related subject, R4 were discussing the election with a group of referendum remainers this am, and one of those interviewed stated that she was voting Green because they were the only party pushing for a second referendum. when the interviewer politely pointed out that the Libdems were also proposing that, she admitted she didn't know that and didn't know who the Libdem leader was, despite voting for them last time! she wasn't the only one of the group who didn't know, and I'm not sure whether to be angry at the Libdems for rubbish comms or her for being so pathetically ill-informed.