Viva la France!
/France opts for left-right battle
Well fancy that!
France, teetering on the edge of collapse and about to be engulfed by throat-slitting Islamists according to some 'pundits', ends up having an old fashioned left/right fight. Bogeyman Le Pen gets sidelined and, at 78 years of age, I suspect the next time we hear about him in the British press will be when he kicks the bucket.
And while smug political commentators delighted in telling us what a parlous state French politics was in, 84%, yes 84%, of the electorate voted, a figure we haven't seen in the UK since the 1950 General Election fought between Atlee and Churchill. I can't help feeling much of the coverage on the French election has been a kind of displacement activity by political commentators to get their minds off the complete bag o'shite that constitutes British politics in 2007.
Viva la France!
Well fancy that!
France, teetering on the edge of collapse and about to be engulfed by throat-slitting Islamists according to some 'pundits', ends up having an old fashioned left/right fight. Bogeyman Le Pen gets sidelined and, at 78 years of age, I suspect the next time we hear about him in the British press will be when he kicks the bucket.
And while smug political commentators delighted in telling us what a parlous state French politics was in, 84%, yes 84%, of the electorate voted, a figure we haven't seen in the UK since the 1950 General Election fought between Atlee and Churchill. I can't help feeling much of the coverage on the French election has been a kind of displacement activity by political commentators to get their minds off the complete bag o'shite that constitutes British politics in 2007.
Viva la France!
