If Micron isn't gay, the bodyguard isn't his lover, Baron will eat his hat.

Sooner ot later the relationship will out, it would be smarter for Micron to come out now, the LGBTT (or whatever the latest acronym is) would worship him for it.

We would but the majority is heterosexual, so it wouldn’t help him.

Have a look at France under 19 team roster who lost to Italy 2-0 yesterday in the Euro semifinal.

Every French president since De Gaulle has started office as the most popular president on record, and then has left office as the least popular on record.

Macron seems keen to uphold this fine tradition.

It is always the failed cover-up which gets them. They have to be particularly stupid not to have learnt this from 'Tricky Dicky' onwards. If they are that stupid - and they self-evident are - how come they are in charge of big countries?

Because the others are often even worse.

So true.............

So Macron pretends to like grannies but really likes bears.

Music to my ears. Ever since I saw that preening poseur strut onto the stage to the tune of Ode to Joy (Beethoven would turn in his grave), I have been wishing him all the bad luck in the world. (Political, not personal.) I can't wait to see his smug face, with all its maquillage, get covered in merde.

I like your distinction between personal and political bad luck ... something unfortunately the left wouldn't offer likewise.

Macron was the young dashing cavalier of Europe, a fresh face with a fresh face from a fresh generation. He is 40.

I suspect that his main trouble is that he has already been pushed aside by a European leader younger and fresher and more dashing. Sebastian Kurz is 31.

"...a European leader younger and fresher and more dashing. Sebastian Kurz is 31"

Maybe Macron's wife will make a move.

...maybe ...but only very slowly , and assisted by her Zimmer frame ....she is 82 you know ...

Macron the Magnificent, as I like to believe he would love to be called, emerged too quickly for the French to know very much about him. He swept to office because people will believe what they want to believe, and unsurprisingly his ambitions have fallen short of his achievements. That would be a cause of disappointment, but other factors may make his situation potentially more tricky.
There is a suggestion that Macron may have been implicated in an attempt to cover up the Benalla affair. If that story gets legs, it could be really damaging. And whether or not Macron was jokingly using the words of a Michael Jackson song when he said Benalla was not his lover, the French will remember that he has been the subject of a "gay" story before.
The Trump handshake stuff was odd, and his affair then marriage to his teacher was very unusual. Perhaps red blooded Frenchmen and women are getting the impression that their President is a bit "weird".

Benalla as the boyfriend would be understandable for a 40 year old Macron - as the alternative is a pensioner.

....the newspapers say Mr Micron is a gayer , and Benalla is Arthur to Mr Microns Martha - he does look like Larry Grayson riding a bicycle in the photo - such a nice boy -...where dried up old Granny Micron is in this menage a trois , goodness only knows.....

What's the French for "Look at the muck in 'ere"?

"Regardez l'ordure ici"

More particularly for Macron:
"Il pete plus haut que son cul" (lit: he f*rts higher than his ar*e).i.e he thinks he's God's gift. (there should be a grave accent above the e of the verb in the French).

Pète. Easy on a Mac ;-)

The French seem to be in denial. Macron proposes, Merkel disposes. I remember when the French and Germans were the leading members in the European Union (the so called motor), but the French would always have one over the Germans because of ze war.

Angela's Merkel's master stroke in inviting in millions of immigrants has changed the old order and asserted German authority in Europe. It was a brilliant tactical move and nobody can guilt trip the Germans any more.

And yes I drive a German car

But her Mother Teresa act has backfired big time..

I'm not so sure about the Germans. Up until fairly recently, German democracy has been underpinned by the Anglosphere. Constitutionally the Germans are still in kindergarten. We don't know how they will behave in a full blown constitutional crisis when there is no one to hold their hand. Past history doesn't give much ground for hope.

I only recently found out that they have changed their national anthem and taken out 'uber alles' and replaced it with 'friend to all' or something... Nobody told me :-)

If you listen very carefully you may hear ,faintl and in the distance now, the opening bars of the 'Horst Wessel' song.

well it would come to an end at some point, and that seems to be now. Finger wagging only works for so long

Very good point. Democracy on the continent is generally of recent origin, shallow and fragile. That's just one reason why the UK is better off out of the EU. There are many others. Reasons for staying in? None.