Circumstances breed compromise?

From the BBC News site:

France’s anti-immigrant party, the National Front, is selling its headquarters to a Chinese university, according to the party leader. (…) Mr Le Pen, 79, has campaigned to become president several times under the slogan “Keep France for the French”.

One might have expected a bit more chauvinistic heroism, no?

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Dutch translator and subtitler living in Brittany with his three cats. Has also lived in the Flemish part of Belgium. Speaks English rather fluently and in a former life used to have a decent command of Spanish. Knows swear words in German and Russian. Not quite francophone yet, but slowly getting there. Vaguely centrist observer of the world around him, extremely naive and, sometimes, rather proud of it. Writes Venale Pecus.

2 thoughts on “Circumstances breed compromise?

  1. It’s not quite as ironic as it might seem. The Chinese are not the sort of immigrants that worry the National Front.

  2. Yhst shows how stupid and shortsighted the National Front is. The ultra-nationalistic Chinese who have called for a boycott of things French and rioted in front of Carrefour, are precisely the type of immigrant that could do harm to French culture and national interest. I wonder what France would do when Chinese start buying up vineyards and foie gras and truffles are all made by Chinese owned companies.

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