New De Gaulles Needed

Fifty years on from the overthrow of the Fourth Republic, France needs a new de Gaulle, a good conservative dirigiste in opposition to the capitalist corrosion of everything that conservatives exist in order to conserve, who, inseparably therefrom, treats both halfs of the neocon-Islamic alliance just as the General treated all four of German occupation, Soviet infiltration, American domination, and the unbalancing of the nasecent EU by British accession. After all, de Gaulle was right on all those counts.

Yes, that is what France needs.

And so does Britain.

For, as Robin Harris writes of the Fourth Republic:

"the system was incestuous and unstable, a small group of small men swapping posts in nominally different governments — all incapable of decisive action. Inflation corroded the franc, while collapse abroad, first in Vietnam but imminently in Algeria, corroded French self-respect far more."

Imagine!