Asked about the Macron administration’s apparent desire to “punish” the UK over Brexit and, as his prime minister recently put it, to “show there is more damage to leaving the Union than staying in it”, he was scathing.
“That is the criminal mistake of the French government and European Commission. The British, inventors of modern democracy, left because they could no longer take being tyrannised by Brussels technocrats and European judges.
“Instead of seeking to understand the reasons why, the French government wants to punish them. It’s stupid and shows they have understood nothing of the current period, where similar sentiments are cropping up throughout Europe,” he said.
But he stopped short of calling for France to leave the EU.
“This period is over. France isn’t England,” he said. “We don’t have the same geography and history as you. You won all your wars and that’s not our case. We lost, won and lost and that has given our people a different intuition and sensitivity.
“You have faith in yourselves that we once had but lost. So I think the French people are not mature for this type of adventure.”
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