Marine martyrisée

In the course of a dark day for French democracy, the leader of the Racaille naziesque has incurred a five-year ban on running for public office despite a court of law having determined her to be a crook. Marine Le Pen and a score of her goons were found guilty of embezzling EU funds to aid their own party, causing the mainstream right to huff and puff that the sentence was rather severe for what may merely have been an unfortunate and unintended consequence of schoolgirlish high spirits. Although various far-right régimes responded with expressions of solidarity, the moderate and sensible ones seem to be refraining from comment, at least during the few years until the appeals process is exhausted. From the realm of the Trumpster and his head-tribble has emanated a contemplative silence with brief manbaby squeal, as those yearning to be made great again imagine what might have occurred if felons in the USA were prohibited from using political office for partisan advantage. All in all, the affair serves only to point up the unfussy effectiveness of the British system, wherein Le Pen's derelictions would be considered little more than a breach of good manners, even in the unlikely event of their coming to light less than fifty years after her death as a peer of the realm and a valued consultant to various thriving centres of fiscal creativity.