Fillion will struggle on until election day.

The left is splinted all over the place. Hammon is socialist, and Hollande has screwed it for them. Mélenchon is a socialist, and Hollande has screwed it for him. Between the two they split the vote and neither get to the run off. Macron worked for Hollande, A three way split won’t get them there. They have also had enough of ENA candidates.

So its going to be Le Pen, currently in the lead, and remember, people lie to pollsters, like the Tory polling, like Brexit, to avoid the abusive behaviour of the left.

So its a simple question, who do the socialists vote for?

1. No one – they stay at home. Front runner gets home.

2. Fillion. A million in nepotistic payments, plus 500,000 agree to be sacked.

3. For the socialist policies, nationalistic Le Pen.

Hmmm not difficult

Seen from the rest of the world, at least, François Fillon would be still be better than Marine Le Pen. But any second round with a Le Pen on the ballot would be, as it has been once in the past, a referendum on the Front National and on everything behind it. The other candidate would be bound to win. Again, that has happened in the past. Why, then, should that candidate not be Jean-Luc Mélenchon?

Magic realism emerged in Latin America because its inhabitants’ ancestors had largely found themselves confronted with flora and fauna, landscapes and weather, places and people, of the like of which they had never so much as heard tell. The rest of those inhabitants’ ancestors had been the people who had found themselves confronted with the first lot and with their ways, including their reactions to everything on the New Continent. Before too long at all, absolutely anything had seemed par for the course.

How very unlike the mind of the Old Continent. In those days. But not in these days. President Mélenchon? Far, far, far stranger things are now happening all around us, all the time.