Macron Backs Down On Fuel Tax Hikes For Six Months

I doubt this will fool anyone.

The only reason he is doing this is because the Yellow Jackets movement is spiraling and their biggest protest yet is scheduled for this weekend. He is simply trying to deflate the movement:

6 mois ?
6 mois…
Sûrement un hasard si ça nous porte juste quelques jours après les élections #Européennes2019… MLP #moratoire https://t.co/650iPhV0Co

— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) December 4, 2018

Marine Le Pen isn’t fooled.

AFP: French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is to announce a suspension of fuel tax hikes which were due in January in France following protests across the country

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) December 4, 2018

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has confirmed a suspension of fuel tax increases following nationwide protests and says “this violence must stop”

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) December 4, 2018

BREAKING: French President Macron caves, will suspend fuel tax increases for 6 months following nationwide violent protests in recent weeks.

— BNL NEWS (@BreakingNLive) December 4, 2018

Axios is salty about it:

NEW: Emmanuel Macron will suspend his planned fuel tax increase, a policy that set off the massive “yellow vest” street protests that resulted in the worst riots to hit Paris since 1968. https://t.co/ctEhNtL9xL

— Axios World (@AxiosWorld) December 4, 2018

NEW: Combined carbon dioxide emissions from the world’s advanced economies are set to rise 0.5% in 2018, ending a 5-year declining trend, the International Energy Agency announced. https://t.co/4lxd5x4kvY

— Axios (@axios) December 4, 2018

Ambulances have joined the Yellow Vest protests

??#FRANCE: Ambulance employees reacted to the Social Security Law and demanded the withdrawal of Article 80. They blocked the #French National Assembly with Ambulances.

Hundreds of ambulances joined the action.pic.twitter.com/8LVfJrXZJ6

— EHA News (@eha_news) December 3, 2018

More than 100 ambulances are currently blocking the #ChampsElysees. #Paris #France pic.twitter.com/8uEk8kUdjP

— Strategic News (@StrategicNews1) December 3, 2018

This is the biggest story in the world right now.

The funniest thing about this is that we are watching a literal working class revolution unfold against Macron in France and it looks more and more like that scene out of V for Vendetta with each passing weekend, but the Left can’t get behind it because it supports the elitist Green agenda. In fact, Bernie Sanders is running in 2020 on doing something similar here.