2023-06-30 05:30:00
To hear it, it seems so simple. “You’re not going to make me believe […] that there is no waiter job, berates the President. Me, I promise you: I’m going around the Old Port tonight with you, I’m sure there are ten job offers. » Thirteen, will correct – following verification – our colleagues from Provence.
In 2018, to find work, you had to cross the street. Today, all you have to do is stroll between the town hall and the place aux Huiles. But what are our three million unemployed people waiting for to tumble into Marseille? Why curb this vibrating wave, this tsunami of waiters ready to drown the obsolete files of Pôle Emploi in pastis?
The Head of State does not specify it, but his message is implicit: those who do not make the effort to seize jobs that are so easy to pick are lazy. “Big lazybones”might he dare, with the accent of Raimu, in front of the Navy bar.
A little music that flatters the right-wing electorate
Of course, the reality is a tad more complex. Among the professions in tension are those of health, home support, logistics transport, construction, digital… Professions that require skills, training and sometimes years of experience.
There are also geographic determinants, regularly pointed out by experts and just as regularly ignored by politicians. By forcing the line, the unemployed are in the north, east and in the countryside, while jobs are in the west, in Ile-de-France and in the metropolises.
Will we also talk regarding these people flayed by life, physically or psychologically bruised, who are simply not able to put on an apron to serve the picon-lemon-curaçao ordered at the Elysian table?
Emmanuel Macron knows nothing of all this. Above all, he knows that this little music, which tends to make the unemployed solely responsible for their situation, flatters the ears of part of the right-wing electorate. With little phrases, the walker in chief tries to capture the sympathy of those who, yesterday, voted for Nicolas Sarkozy or François Fillon. Even if it means twisting the facts, juggling with the statistics and sprinkling his paternalistic outbursts with a touch of demagoguery. At the risk of gratuitously hurting the little people he claims to represent. But following all, even in Marseille, you can’t make bouillabaisse without killing lionfish.
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