It is Euro Election time and the Front de Gauche made their way to Montrejeau market this week. I’m still stunned that a French Communist party exists and has seats in government. My French is good enough to get a rough idea what ‘redistribution des richesses’ means.
I’m a little too self-conscious to just walk up and take a photo of them so I got Jean to take a photo of them with me in the foreground. That’s me on on the right of the photo in a Money Mark t-shirt being a wuss.
The most interesting thing to note was that they were offering free wine to those who came up and spoke to them. I am sure that is part of their party platform – Redistribution des Bourgognes.
There’s a serious issue here – rural poverty. We’re unemployed and living cheap but that’s by choice. Farms here are a few hectares and will never produce much revenue. FdG are tapping into this.
Well, I’m not a Communist sypmathizer, but I can support redistribution des Bourgognes.
And I must say, I’m shocked you were being such a wuss!
I could have just walked up and taken their photo, but there’s a small risk they’d get offended by foreigners taking their photo because they are quaint. Mind you, a verbal stoush between an American and a Communist would make a much better blog post.