Comments by "No One" (@joermundgand) on "French MP joins yellow vest protest during Assembly session" video.

  1. In 2013, Lassalle walked around France for eight months from April to December to meet people. He was afterwards quoted, Everywhere I went I witnessed a crisis in the standard of living, a loss of identity and the loss of a sense of a common destiny”.He found the situation equally bad in the cities and the countryside. Scepticism about globalisation, distrust of politicians and latent racism were common among people he spoke to, he said. Lassalle undertook a 39-day hunger strike in March/April 2006, in protest at a threat to jobs in his constituency. Japanese firm Toyal, which owned a paint factory near Accous in the Vallée d'Aspe and employed 150 of Lassalle's constituents, announced plans to open a factory 60 km away. The firm claimed that this relocation of its investment would not result in the closure of the Accous site, but Lassalle's concerns were not assuaged and he embarked on a hunger strike on 7 March. The strike ended on 14 April, when Toyal offered an assurance to Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy that the factory would not close, and that it would continue investment in the area before expanding elsewhere. Earlier the same day, Lassalle had been admitted to hospital in Garches, in the western suburbs of Paris, prompting intervention by President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and Sarkozy. Lassalle had lost 21 kilograms (46 lb) of weight over the course of the strike. The good man in Szechuan. Jean Lassalle.
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  2. Lasalle thinks all people should join forces against these vampires.
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  3. He's been telling them since 2006 that they have to change, they laughed at him, they still laugh at him, I wonder if they'll laugh when they are dangling from lamp posts.
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  4. One mountain farmer who actually talks to regular people, one man who is the last honest man in the entire assembly. Normally he's an extroverted kind man who smiles alot, look at him now, he's been trying to tell the others in the assembly for 12 years that things weren't going as great as they thought.
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