Highschool students demonstrate against the reform of the baccalaureate up on the new bridge of Toulouse, France,Dec.6,2018. Pierre Berthuel/Press Association. All rights reserved.
To be in France over the last three weeks was to be in a country in a state of complete political paralysis, at least within the corridors of power, much like the Brexit-bound UK. Every time you turned on the radio or TV or opened a paper, you would be confronted by two words: Gilets Jaunes.
Paralysis has seized Macron, the politicians in the National Assembly and frequently the traffic on the roads. Meanwhile the streets of France were alive with political dynamism as les Gilets Jaunes have “blocked” and marched in anger, to make their voices heard.
