the Sarkozy years

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media is focussed on NF votes and the Sarkozy campaign also seems to believe the election will turn on who gets those votes.

i think this is all wrong. for me the only way Sarkozy wins will be if his voters are more motivated to turn up on the day. we know that they are very motivated (many have a lot of their income riding on it, if Hollande is to be believed), and he got a strong showing in the 1st round. most of Hollande's voters have arrived as such by default - they're anti-Sarkozy voters in reality.

if the younger section of the anti-Sarkozy vote don't bother showing up in massive numbers this one could still be close.

 

[nino_savatte]

media is focussed on NF votes and the Sarkozy campaign also seems to believe the election will turn on who gets those votes.

i think this is all wrong. for me the only way Sarkozy wins will be if his voters are more motivated to turn up on the day. we know that they are very motivated (many have a lot of their income riding on it, if Hollande is to be believed), and he got a strong showing in the 1st round. most of Hollande's voters have arrived as such by default - they're anti-Sarkozy voters in reality.

if the younger section of the anti-Sarkozy vote don't bother showing up in massive numbers this one could still be close.

Even the BBC are all over Le Pen and her dribbling pyscho party. In fact, I'd go as far as saying the Beeb doesn't want Hollande to win.

 

[Balbi]

I would like to think guinnessdrinker has a smile on his face somewhere, and a fresh pint.

 

[nino_savatte]

Yes, at last he's gone. Cheers, guinnessdrinker!

 

[goldenecitrone]

Sarkozy will become even more popular when he makes a dent in France's unemployment rate.

Whatever happened to mears and his insight?

 

[teqniq]

Steve Bell at his finest:

 

[Idris2002]

Shit my Mum says:

"Isn't Sarkozy an awful pup? You'd like to give him a slap. That Cameron's a pup too."

 

[CosmikRoger]

Le balayeur balayé

 

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the Sarkozy years are over.

 

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(for now)

 

[DRINK?]

has Bruni dumped the unemployed French midget yet?

 

[Idris2002]

has Bruni dumped the unemployed French midget yet?

Au contraire, she has no doubt gone "ka-ching", her eyes lighting up like a cash register. She was, apparently, urging Sarko to quit anyway, so that he could follow Blair's example and become a multi-millionaire speculator.

 

[nino_savatte]

The Tories have been beside themselves with spite/hatred/worry since the election of Hollande. This blog from (Dr) Tim Stanley sums up the mood.

It looks like Socialist François Hollande has won the French presidency. His platform: raise taxes on business to fund a lower retirement age and more spending. Things don’t look good for poor old France. Either Hollande will stick to his promises and ruin the economy or he’ll U-turn and reveal himself to be a reckless opportunist. Whether he's a fool or a knave, this election cycle has exposed just how broken the French political system is. The kind of economic reforms that are necessary to put the country back to work simply can’t be enacted under the present arrangement. France needs to change. She needs another Napoleon.

Ever since the French Revolution of 1789, the French have struggled to keep a constitution going beyond two or three generations (there’s a reason why la grande dame is on her fifth republic). The cause is the imbalance between “government rooted in law” and the free expression of “mass democracy.” On the one hand, the French revolutionaries wanted to create a government that limited powers and liberated the economy (one of the first things they did was abolish serfdom and end regulation of the grain market). On the other hand, to give the new government legitimacy they acknowledged the political authority of the Parisian mob. What was the point of democracy if children starved? The policies passed by elected delegates had to be rubber-stamped by the sans-culottes.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...de-but-she-really-needs-a-napoleon-bonaparte/

Yes, austerity is the only game in town in Social Darwinist Britain.

 

[gentlegreen]

Au contraire, she has no doubt gone "ka-ching", her eyes lighting up like a cash register. She was, apparently, urging Sarko to quit anyway, so that he could follow Blair's example and become a multi-millionaire speculator.

She's independently wealthy anyway - in which case you would have thought she could have afforded better advice before doing a Joan Rivers on her face ...

 

[butchersapron]

Sarkozy home raided today in connection with campaign fraud.

 

[elbows]

Because Im worth it

(L'Oreal heiress implicated)

 

[nino_savatte]

Mmm, schadenfreude... I love it!

 

[nino_savatte]

Sarkozy is sent down for 3 years on corruption charges. He should have come to Britain, where he'd have been knighted or, at the very least, given an OBE.

Sarkozy: Former French president sentenced to jail for corruption

The ex-president, found guilty of trying to bribe a judge, will remain free while he appeals.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[brogdale]

Sarkozy is sent down for 3 years on corruption charges. He should have come to Britain, where he'd have been knighted or, at the very least, given an OBE.

Sarkozy: Former French president sentenced to jail for corruption

The ex-president, found guilty of trying to bribe a judge, will remain free while he appeals.

www.bbc.co.uk

"They'd send a limousine anyway..."

 

[nino_savatte]

Libération has more here.

Affaire des écoutes : Nicolas Sarkozy condamné à trois ans de prison dont un ferme

L'ancien chef de l'Etat Nicolas Sarkozy a été condamné ce lundi à trois ans d'emprisonnement, dont un ferme, pour corruption et trafic d'influence dans l'affaire dite «des écoutes».

www.liberation.fr

 

[krtek a houby]

the Sarkozy years are over.

3 years

 

[Orang Utan]

He’s not going to jail though