[yokisan]

It's literally this simple. Integration has been a disaster to the extent that soldiers now patrol within the borders of France and Belgium.

The great opportunity-cost of integrating populations and monitoring them when it fails has clearly become too expensive and people are saying "enough".

Oddly, the EU doesn't seem to acknowledge the sentiment of the public and just keep hammering on about 'ever closer union'. Clarity from mainstream Parties on this issue alone would shrink the poll numbers of the Far-Right.

[realusername]

Fillon stance against migrants is very harsh and even harsher than the far-right on some aspects, apparently, having a hard stance on immigrants is not enough to prevent people to vote for the far-right.

[yokisan]

Touché. Although the opponents in the campaign are mostly terrible. Even by French standards.