French political discussion megathread: Yellow Vest Redux

[Blair]

TIL that Jacques Delors was still alive at 98. RIP. Also TIL that Martine Aubry is his daughter.

This is more of a UK politics thing, but I wonder how much truth is there to the idea that his 1988 speech to the TUC conference was what caused Thatcher to do 180 and become a die-hard Euroskeptic.

It’s often cited as a reason for the Labour movement becoming more pro EU