We Need British Bayroux

There are things to oppose about François Bayrou, particularly over the EU, although he has lately expressed the sympathy with the France du Non always really necessitated by his Catholic-based, conservative social democracy.

But he is a shining example of how a movement of that kind, transcending Left-Right divisions precisely by including the best aspirations of both (and thus precluding the worst excesses of either), can pose a serious threat to an arrogant, out-of-touch, metropolitan, neoconservative élite determined to present a scorned, despised electorate with Tweedledum and Tweedledee. He would certainly beat either on the second ballot.

Britons, take note: the Christian base will have to be wider than Catholicism alone, but apart from that the message is clear, that it really can be done. So let’s do it!