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June 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
But since Mr Mélenchon “parachuted” into the area, the coast is
anything but clear.
A recent poll placed Miss Le Pen ahead in the first round, with 34 per cent,
with Mr Mélenchon second, comfortably ahead of the Socialist challenger. But
it suggested Mr Mélenchon would go on to win in the second round.
Both candidates have received a warm response from locals as they ply the
area’s markets and housing estates.
In the Cité Bruno in Dourges, a mining suburb on the outskirts of
Hénin-Beaumont, the constituency’s largest town, three teenage girls rushed
out of a small red-brick house clasping photos of the blonde woman now
standing before them.
Beaming, Miss Le Pen signed the photos with a flourish, handed them a campaign
leaflet.
A group of old men playing boules doffed their hats; David Cabre, 75, said: “I’m
president of the club for life, if only the same could happen to you.”
This was not the reception you might expect from a historic Left-wing bastion.
But it is here that Miss Le Pen won her best scores in the presidential
elections, around 30 per cent.
The constituency has long been run by Socialists, but a string of corruption
scandals and splits has angered the locals, who appear receptive to Miss Le
Pen’s promises of ending austerity and keeping immigrants out.
“It would be a total disgrace for (Miss Le Pen) to win here in the cradle
of the history of the French workers’ movement,” said Mr Mélenchon. “The
challenge is to show people the real problem is the banker not the immigrant,”
he added.
Café owner Jean-Marc Pinte, 53, said he welcomed the leftist’s presence as “he
must show that the Pas-de-Calais is not as racist as all that”.
“The NF feeds off people’s unhappiness but we’re no different to people
in England or Greece. Many can’t make ends meet around here, and when people
don’t know where they’re going, they blame foreigners.”
Mr Mélenchon said people were “furious but not fascists”,
pointing out that the immigrant population in the constituency was well
below the national average.
But an elderly woman in the market showed what he was up against, saying she “understood”
those who voted far-Right.
“Some people don’t come here to work. We have to look after our own.”
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