“We are finishing the French economy well, believing that we have made Michel Barnier dance”

To the fools! We must pad the Chamber of Deputies. Our elected officials from the left bloc and the National Rally are preparing to bring down the Barnier government, without having any alternative to propose. Historical epilogue to a mediocre sequence, during which we confused the essence of politics, that is to say the art of the balance of power, with its caricature: the competition of pride.

The budget discussion of recent weeks should have been an exercise in solving a difficult, but not impossible, equation. After all, it was only a matter of taking a first step in the recovery of public finances, to reduce the public deficit to a level (5%) that none of our major European partners would yet dare to present at a meeting of ministers of Eurozone finances. But these were only small political calculations. Each of the forces present, on the left of course, in the National Rally especially, but also in…