I feel like if a PM is saying that their legacy is winning an election, they should have had the dignity to have died tragically a month after the polls

Just to be clear (cos internet), I wasn't replying to blame you! Just provide the contrast from that time!

Also to reshare the reminder that a generation of uni students still get grossed out by his memory cos it's funny how loathsome he is.

Everyone I know who vaguely knew him back when he was head of the NUS thought he was a slimy careerist. I still love the late Dawn Foster's description as being *so perfect*.

As I've said before, increased French dogmatism is also deepening EU divides, and potentially paving the way for a far-right government from next year to make things even worse. This never seems to occur to Macron, for whom unity seems to mean following him.