[Updated] Hollande is new President of France
06-05-2012, 22:31
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Re: [Updated] Hollande is next President of France
Another good guardian article how sakorsky got it wrong.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...arkozy-failure
Interesting he showed the same arrogance as cameron and osbourne but went much further.
Not ounce tact these people seems far far from reality what its like.
If you going to kick people who low incomes and struggling then you got to be seen doing doubly austerity yourself.
Think this why he gone if Cameron and Osbourne dont listen they will be gone too.
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Sunday's vote was a personal referendum on Sarkozy. At the start of his mandate, he was briefly the most popular president since Charles de Gaulle; then he plummeted to record lows for four years and festered there. Rejection of the "president of the rich" was not just about his ostentatious vaunting of money – celebrating his 2007 win at a flash restaurant with the nation's richest people and borrowing a millionaire's yacht when he had promised to retreat to a monastery. It was not just about unpresidential manners – sending text messages during an audience with the pope, saying "(swears here) off, you prat" to a man who refused to shake his hand at an agricultural fair or parading his first public date with Carla Bruni at Disneyland weeks after his high-profile divorce.
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07-05-2012, 09:17
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You keep repeating Nadine Dorries' mantra re 'arrogance' and 'far from reality' ad nauseum to try and support your views, but like her, you just use sound bites rather than substantive arguments.
You, amusingly (and considering your views on politicians, somewhat hypocritically), are using Politicians Polemic 101 - have a viewpoint, state that viewpoint as fact rather than opinion, publicise anything slightly related to this view, and then repeat any time you can. For example, have Cameron or Osbourne done any of the things you mention above (election celebration, texting when with the Pope, etc), or are you just trying to taint/pillory them by faint association?
The old 'if you keep saying it long enough and often enough, people will think it must be true' approach.
By all means complain about their policies and why you think they are wrong (with hopefully some alternative proposals), but just resorting to tabloid polemic and personal attacks, often without substantiation IMHO, just brings a valuable and required discussion down to the level of name-calling.
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07-05-2012, 09:51
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Re: [Updated] Hollande is next President of France
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You keep repeating Nadine Dorries mantra re 'arrogance' and 'far from reality' ad nauseum to try and support your views, but like her, you just use sound bites rather than substantive arguments.
You, amusingly (and considering your views on politicians, somewhat hypocritically), are using Politicians Polemic 101 - have a viewpoint, state that viewpoint as fact rather than opinion, publicise anything slightly related to this view, and then repeat any time you can. For example, have Cameron or Osbourne done any of the things you mention above (election celebration, texting when with the Pope, etc), or are you just trying to taint/pillory them by faint association?
The old 'if you keep saying it long enough and often enough, people will think it must be true' approach.
By all means complain about their policies and why you think they are wrong (with hopefully some alternative proposals), but just resorting to tabloid polemic and personal attacks, often without substantiation IMHO, just brings a valuable and required discussion down to the level of name-calling.
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Or to put it another way Mertle's posts are almost the same as we see from the red top comics who some call newspapers.
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07-05-2012, 10:57
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Re: [Updated] Hollande is next President of France
France is screwed.
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07-05-2012, 11:04
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Re: [Updated] Hollande is next President of France
And not in a good way....
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07-05-2012, 11:04
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France is screwed.
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Zut alors!
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07-05-2012, 11:05
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Re: [Updated] Hollande is next President of France
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France is screwed.
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Thats one way to put it
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07-05-2012, 11:34
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Re: [Updated] Hollande is next President of France
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France is screwed.
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No it's not. The 75% + tax rates will be lapped up, lowering retirement ages will reduce unemployment and expanding the state from the 56% or so of the economy it already creates will create a socialist utopia just waiting to spread across the channel.
Or maybe not. Interesting times ahead and yet more turmoil for the euro zone.
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07-05-2012, 11:47
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I doubt he will push ahead with the 75% tax rate.
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07-05-2012, 11:49
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I doubt he will push ahead with the 75% tax rate.
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You're not suggesting his promise might have been a load of balls then?
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07-05-2012, 12:04
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Re: [Updated] Hollande is next President of France
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It'll be interesting to see how the markets react to this news even though it wasn't a huge surprise.
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not very well according to this
http://news.sky.com/home/business/article/16223344
If you take the French and Greek elections together then the Eurozone looks like it could be in trouble
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07-05-2012, 12:54
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It's not just France that is going to rock the boat, Greece has opened the door to some nasty types.
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A neo-Nazi party who advocate forcing immigrants into work camps and planting landmines along the border are today savouring unprecedented political success in Greece.
Golden Dawn party will enter parliament with seven per cent of the vote after the electorate shunned the main parties who they blame for plunging the nation into austerity.
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When asked what his first action in parliament would be, Mihaloliakos said: 'All the illegal immigration out! Out of my country, out of my home!'
Asked how he planned to carry that out, he angrily said: 'Use your imagination'.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ork-camps.html
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07-05-2012, 12:57
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If you take the French and Greek elections together then the Eurozone looks like it could be in trouble
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Excellent news
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07-05-2012, 13:28
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mmmm ,extremist political parties taking control of governments in Europe during recession years ,let me think now when was the last time that happened ?
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07-05-2012, 13:52
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mmmm ,extremist political parties taking control of governments in Europe during recession years ,let me think now when was the last time that happened ?
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