Michel Houellebecq was right. Rural France has been betrayed – Britain must not go the same way

BCF : In these dilapidated French villages and towns you also notice the number of A Vendre (For sale) signs. As I previously noted about the Islamisation of German towns and cities, you get a distinctly uncomfortable sense of something slowly dying – though compared to northeastern France, rural Germany looks like one of those merry medieval scenes by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Michel Houellebecq, the famed novelist and bête noire of the French Left, wasn’t lying about the state of rural France. I have walked through a sizeable chunk of the country’s north-east thinking: this is what the slow version of civilisational collapse must look like.

The region suffered from being on the front line of two World Wars. But as Houellebecq describes in Serotonin, Submission and Atomised, it’s also been let down by political elites in Paris and Brussels who have laid waste to local farming with policies favouring globalist trade and foreign markets. Hence the posters on village billboards showing a bare-breasted Marianne once again leading the storming of the Bastille, this time beneath the title “FREXIT”.

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