“End of abundance”: the left replies

“There are hundreds of thousands of people facing impossible problems, nine million poor people, so to hear such a thing is unbelievable!” Not far from Valence (Drôme), Thursday, in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, where several thousand rebels are gathered until Sunday for their summer university, Jean-Luc Mélenchon swept Emmanuel Macron’s remarks on “the end of abundance” pronounced the day before in the Council of Ministers. “He doesn’t realize how hurtful he can be, judged the former presidential candidate. And for his friends the rich, the abundance continues! It is always the same people who will have to tighten their belts.

Not far from there, less than an hour’s drive, on the edge of Grenoble, his ecologist alter ego, Julien Bayou, is no less upbeat, even more incisive. On the sidelines of the university of the party he leads until mid-December – unable to combine this function with his new status as a deputy -, Julien Bayou mocked the speech of a…