While Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Rally Party (RN), is still twisting in legal limbo, waiting on a final July decision in the appeal of her conviction on corruption charges, with its subsequent ban from running for office, her second in command has been on the road and shaking up the electorate.
Jordan Bardella, the young and charismatic President of RN has made some waves with an announcement during a speech this past Labor Day.
Social benefits and all things handed out from the state should go to French citizens alone. And if RN wins the presidential elections next year, that is precisely the policy the party intends to pursue.
…He restated that family benefits would reserved for households where parents hold French citizenship as part of a broader push for “national priority”.
“Under our leadership, social housing will be allocated as a priority to French families who need it most,” he said during his speech on May 1, Labour Day.
France, Bardella says, can no longer afford to supplement the invaders. Native French would become the priority for the French government.
…“Social benefits will be reserved for French nationals,” he insisted.
Bardella argued that France can no longer function as what he portrayed as a heaven for foreign-born residents.
“France is not a hotel; it is not a social welfare office whose sole purpose is to subsidise the birth rates of other countries on its own territory,” he said.
He went further, criticising the country’s provision of state-funded healthcare to undocumented migrants, vowing to end what he described as a system offering comprehensive free treatment while, he claimed, many French citizens struggle to afford care.
“We will put an end to this scandal of state-funded healthcare, which offers the full range of free treatment to undocumented migrants, even as one in three French persons goes without medical care due to a lack of funds,” he said.
Bardella might well have a point there, because the French – and Europe in general – are finding out, as we have with the scandals in Minnesota and California, that the generosity of the state towards those who have landed there legally or otherwise very often turns into a financial windfall for the taker and their home country.
It turns out the French have also discovered they have a remittance problem. Isn’t it the strangest coincidence that as the number of welfare-drawing ‘immigrants’ rises, so too does the amount of money sent back to the countries from which they supposedly fled?
Ten years ago, remittances to Africa from the African diaspora were up over a third.
The African diaspora sends 36% more money to the continent than it did ten years ago.
In 10 years, the number of people living outside their country of origin has increased by 28%. At the same time, remittances from these expatriates to their countries of origin have jumped by 51%—from $296 billion in 2007 to $445 billion in 2016—representing an average annual increase of 4.2%. Of this $445 billion, 13% was sent to Africa. These are some of the trends highlighted in the report published by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on June 14.
Africa received $60.5 billion in 2016 from its citizens living abroad, compared to $44.3 billion in 2007, representing a 36% increase, according to IFAD. This figure differs slightly from that of the African Development Bank (AfDB), which estimates that total remittances to Africa amounted to just over $65 billion in 2016. While this increase may seem significant, it remains small compared to the Asia-Pacific region, where these sums climbed by 87% over the same period.
As of 2023, the total remittances flowing into Africa exceeded $100B (!), more than official development assistance and direct foreign investment combined.
That’s insane.
Diaspora remittances, money individuals send to their home country from abroad, have become one of the most powerful engines of growth and resilience across the African continent.
As of 2023, Africa received over $100 billion in remittances, amounting to approximately 6% of the continent’s GDP.
This surpassed both official development assistance ($42 billion) and foreign direct investment (FDI) ($48 billion), highlighting a seismic shift in the region’s external financing dynamics.
Behind this surge lies the movement of over 40 million Africans living abroad, who, in pursuit of better incomes, political stability, and security, send financial support back to families and communities. These remittances not only meet essential household needs but also exceed FDI in many countries and are now a cornerstone of national economic stability.
The French government has been instrumental in easing the flow of money from its coffers into immigrant hands and then off to whatever country the immigrants choose to send it to. In the French case, it’s usually Africa.
I have a feeling RN will find a way to squeeze those easy transfers. Certainly, cutting off access to state benefits the state can no longer afford should put a crimp in many money orders going back to the continent.
Every day, more working-class Frenchmen are realizing the national treasure rolling out over the wire transfers.
C’est pas Comme si la richesse Produite par des contribuables et de la Diaspora Africaine, RESTAIT en France pour être dépensée ⚠️🇫🇷😖https://t.co/jtVg5Okr3K
— sachacomm (@catapoulpot) May 4, 2026
…It’s not as if the wealth produced by taxpayers and the African diaspora STAYS in France to be spent
And it doesn’t at all.
But if a Frenchman had some extra euros and wanted to spend them on, say, a smallish chateau, there’s a new tool available on real estate listings thanks to those very same migrants.
Say, perhaps you found a schweet little cottage online and wanted to know more about it than the garden was lovely and the bathroom was too small.
This handy dandy tool incorporates all the aspects of modern French living. Plug in your prospective new crib’s address and check for such important neighborhood quality-of-life items as asylum centers nearby, local ‘Islamization rate,’ and rates of rampaging lefties burning the village down.
Things the realtor never tells you, right here in one app.
A French website and real estate browser extension for Chrome is promoting an unusual data offering, which includes information on immigration levels, insecurity, and Islamization rates — all factors that real estate buyers may want to take into consideration before they make an investment.
The OVMF assigns various scores “automatically in real estate ad photos,” according to the company behind the extension, which is free and collects no data from its users, according to the website.
The OVMF also promises to highlight certain facilities in the area or neighborhood, which some real estate buyers may want to be aware of, such as asylum accommodations, troubled QPV districts, and the number of mosques in an area.
The OVMF site appears to have an enormous amount of data, such as the number of migrants in accommodation facilities, the number of different religious groups, and immigration levels for each neighborhood.
It will also alert you if the house is cheap because the neighborhood needs some work.
You know, like ‘high rates of immigration, crime, and poverty‘ work.
YOICKS
…The site’s data on QPV districts refers to “Quartier Prioritaire de la Politique de la Ville,” which are specifically designated urban areas that receive targeted government support to reduce social and economic inequalities. Typically, they feature high rates of immigration, crime, and poverty.
The French government uses the QPV label to implement the “Politique de la Ville” (Urban Policy). The objective is to “bridge the gap” between these poorer areas and the rest of France. There are approximately 1,500 QPV districts across France, including overseas territories, and roughly 5 million people living in them.
(Bookmark that sucker if you’re looking for a European vacation home with le flair Français, or you could get stuck with le pew.)
In any event, it seems as if the grumpy beast that is Europe – with the exception of the lunatics in Spain – is rousing itself bit by bit to address the problem it opened the door to decades ago, and coddled from the very get-go.
Too late, as I asked earlier?
Oh, sadly, it could well be.
But the revelation that things have gone off the rails often hits when everything but the last car is tumbling down the embankment.
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