La lune de miel est terminée!

[stockhausen]

Good little scrap between antifa yellow vests and their enemies also in yellow vests

It seems the enemy of my enemy is my friend does not hold true when it comes to antifa, everybody is an enemy

I wonder who posted this video and how they managed with any confidence to identify it as a battle between Anti-Fascists and the Gilets Jaunes?

As to the the "British Public rebelling against VAT"; I agree, the Poll Tax and the Iraq War were the only times in the recent past that the British Public protested against any Government action or inaction . . . I wonder what they might get riled about in a couple of months time

 

[stockhausen]

It doesn't take a high IQ to decipher that if people are shouting "fascists get out" and "Lyon antifa" that... Antifa are there

I must admit that having listened carefully I can't make out that they are shouting "fascists get out" and "Lyon antifa". I wonder why the protesters are using "English" rather than "French"?

Because you seem to have some cognitive dissonance over the fact these yellow vests types are are mostly just protesting taxation. They're not necessarily all anti austerity or lefty types, plenty of them are anti immigrant etc... and would be more in line with say working class UKIP types in the UK though amusingly you seemed reassured by them in the OP.

It appears that unlike you I have never had the good fortune actually to meet any of these people and ask them what their agendas are . . . I take it that you have spoken to them at length; you have haven't you?

 

[stockhausen]

. . .
The EU flag is burning and the tricolour is raised as they begin to call for frexit

I suspect that some of the dissatisfaction expressed by Brexiteers is also felt by the gilets jaunes but not the racism or the fanatical xenophobia.

As it happens, I believe that the gilets jaunes movement is mostly rural and they have done very well out of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.

 

[stockhausen]

I think you're in denial then and have been taking a rathe blinkered view re: what have already been shown in this thread.

¿Que?

 

[stockhausen]

Police have used teargas and water cannon on protesting firefighters in Paris. Thousands of firefighters attended the demonstration in the French capital, asking for an increase in their hazard bonus, which has not changed since 1990

A number of recent videos showing what appeared to be unjustified police violence at other demonstrations have sparked outrage on social media. After scores of serious injuries from police weapons during the gilets jaunes anti-government protests last year, and complaints of heavy-handedness at pensions protests, lawyers have begun accusing the French president, Emmanuel Macron, of presiding over the most heavy-handed approach to street demonstrations in France since the protests of May 1968.

The French riot police seem to have a simlar approach to Spain's Guardia Civil - violent.