“If we had known, we would have patented it”: Poutou quips on Macron’s takeover of an NPA slogan – BFMTV

At a meeting in Nanterre on Saturday, Emmanuel Macron paraphrased the slogan “Our lives are worth more than their profits”, carried by Olivier Besancenot when he was a presidential candidate in 2002 and 2007. Emmanuel Macron’s little sentence dropped on Saturday at the bend more than two and a half hours of meeting did not go unnoticed. Among other borrowings, the president-candidate raised the issue of addiction and the Ehpad Orpéa scandal, considering that the subject of dependent elderly people that “our lives, their lives are worth more than all the profits”. An outing that largely evokes the slogan of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), notably visible on Olivier Besancenot’s campaign posters in 2002 and 2007, “Our lives are worth more than all their profits”. Invited on France Inter this Sunday morning, Olivier Besancenot’s successor , Philippe Poutou, first reacted ironically: “If we had known, we would have patented it, it would have brought us money,” he said with a smile. “is all the nerves of a Macron and his gang. They are used to that in fact, to act as if nothing had happened, or even to show themselves to be the opposite of what they really are” , then lambasted the Bordelais. “Not the first to use other people’s slogans” “He uses slogans, he uses them. he visibly reads others, he’s not the first to use other people’s slogans to try to deceive a little, in the middle of the McKinsey affair it’s true that there is also a way to get out of the scandal a little and then to denounce what is happening in nursing homes when the investigation that has been done is not completely made public”, rebuked the former Ford worker in Blanquefort. The investigation report carried out after the revelations of journalist Victor Castanet on the Orpéa group must be made public within “a few days”, said the government. Poutou wants to talk about “a public service for nursing homes” For Philippe Poutou, Emmanuel Macron’s reference to the flagship slogan of the NPA “allows us to recall the nursing home scandal, to show that when the private sector takes care of these things and health, it becomes very serious”. “That’s why we are discussing a service public for nursing homes, for the elderly and even globally it is the idea of ​​public service for everything which concerns the basic needs of the population which is unavoidable because when we see that the private sector takes care of these things, it is interested in its profits, in the logic of profitability and it is very expensive”, Judge Philippe Poutou.Samedi, the presidential candidate for the third time had reacted to the loan of Emmanuel Macron in a vitriolic tweet: “While his friends the rich steal public money, Macron steals our slogans. Definitely, these people dare everything, that’s even how we recognize them”, he had tackled, paraphrasing meanwhile the famous line of the Tontons Flingueurs, “the idiots dare everything, that’s even how ‘we recognize them”. The sentence also provoked a reaction from Olivier Besancenot, again on Twitter: “So, for the slogan, how do we do it? We send a RIB to the consulting firm McKinsey?” Clarisse Martin Journalist BFMTV