A left-wing bloc made up of the Socialist, Communist, Green parties and the hard-left France Unbowed had proposed a minimum 2 per cent tax on wealth over €100 million (S$150 million), dubbed the “Zucman tax” after the French economist who devised it.
Mr Lecornu expressed his “profound disagreement” with the wealth-tax proposal, insisting there was no such thing as a “miracle tax”.



Some on the left became turncoats (I’m talking to you British Labour).
Light reds are the worse I swear. We got a pedophile crony with connection with the Sicilian Mafia here. The libs loved him because he was openly gay. He kicked people out of unemployment benefits and then went on to sing the internationale
Jup, as an outsider british politics continues to baffle me.
Corporate cronyism has destroyed leftists credibility