 asked about the decisions that were being made. There was lots of anger about things even going as far back as 2005 when the French people rejected the Lisbon Treaty of the EU and it was signed anyway. Lots of people felt that their democracy wasn't working for them and they didn't have enough say over the economy and over their lives. You meet this with the cost of living crisis with fuel and you meet this with the violent state reaction. It was a perfect storm of just anti-politics and despair.