o/t civil war, strikes, walk outs, political parties collapsing/ emerging.....

[frogmiller]

Don't you think it feels like its dying down here though? In January I was driving past the pickets, and the toll roads and speed cameras were down, there was a big presence, now it just seems to be more confined to Paris. I did see an abandoned yellow vest behind my parking space in Chamonix last week though, just not groups of people wearing them.

It's getting more organised.

At first it was the people discontent with the price of fuel and the policy that Macron enforced regarding the fuel prices. He had said that he was going to put 7 centimes on the price of diesel on a certain date when it was already at an all time high. When the jilet jeune protest it was mainly for that reason. Since then we've had strikes at universities and other secondry educational facilities to the extent that the kids came out on strike for 3 days in protest to the reforms to the education system. In secondary education now they can have upto 40 kids in a class and then to a limit 44 until they have to employ another prof.

Last week there were postal strikes and demonstartionst organised by recognised unions. This is the prefered way for Macron because he knows who to speak to. The Jilet Jeunes didn't have a leader and that's what made it so difficult for them to find a resolution. One thing regarding the first jilet jeune demos was that they had police sympathy and informed the police when and where they were protesting and they were controled to some extent in good humour but the jilet jeunes couldn't get anywhere near the facilities that refined the fuel. Those areas were controlled by tougher measures to make sure that the country could run.

There is much more to come from the protests like in the other big cities as this weekend showed. The demos weren't in Paris this weekend but other big cities had them. There isn't a cat in hells chance of Macron getting reelected.