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Post by Stephen on Aug 2, 2018 10:10:23 GMT
Steve Bannon to set up 'The Movement.
The basic idea behind the Movement, Bannon told the Daily Beast, is to try to provide policy, polling, and strategic support for parties across the continent in the run up to the May 2019 European Parliament elections.
The goal is to turn the EU legislature, into a battleground that can challenge the European project.
“Next May is hugely important,” Bannon told the Daily Beast. “This is the real first continent-wide face-off between populism and the party of Davos. This will be an enormously important moment for Europe.”
Interested to hear what people think of this on a European and Irish level.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 2, 2018 11:10:55 GMT
Sounds good to me. I like Steve Bannon.
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Post by cato on Aug 2, 2018 22:21:57 GMT
It will be used by the Europhiles as a way to brand Eurosceptics as fascists or lackeys of the USA. I am rather curious as to Bannon's motivation as American nationalists naturally put American interests first.
As much as I like Nigel Farange for example his support for Irexit was counter productive as it i was easy to paint him as an out of touch Brit with no understanding of Ireland.
Buyer beware!
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Post by cato on Sept 5, 2018 10:57:57 GMT
We could all do with a little cheering up on occasion.
Newsnight BBC2 ran a piece last night on the furore over Steve Bannon being deplatformed by the New Yorker as various celebs like Jim Carey had vetoed him via hostile tweets.
A hostile writer Laurie Penny makes an attempt to explain her decision to withdraw from a new debate hosted by the Economist this time. Her contribution delivered in literal squeaks of outrage with the word fascist in almost every sentence is a hoot.
I know I shouldn't poke fun at a person pretending to be grown up but sometimes my inner Darth Vader has to get out.
It's on Youtube if you look up the Steve Bannon piece for last night.
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Post by rogerbuck on Sept 10, 2018 15:29:02 GMT
I am rather curious as to Bannon's motivation as American nationalists naturally put American interests first. Very striking, Cato. You have motivated me to put up here something I must finish translating from French. For the moment though I paste in only a few roughly translated French lines thereof. I wil just note that this is written by a certain Aymeric Chauprade, who among other things appears to me be a 1) highly critical of Vatican II type in Catholic traditionalist mold. 2) highly critical of immigration into France. 3) Former high ranking member of the (now re-named) Front National in France and still an M.E. P - now independent. Nonetheless this Chauprade writes, as follows, in my rough translation and with some added bold: You may be interested in this as well, Cato.  I shall just add that the Catholic traditionalist, "far right" view from France is so SO different from American populism and the American Alt-Right. And I mean to post more about this when I can ... |
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