Posted on 04/14/2007 8:27:55 PM PDT by blam
This vacuum in Paris plays straight into le Pen's hands
Next week's presidential elections will confirm what many Europeans fear, that France is moving inexorably to the right
Will Hutton
Sunday April 15, 2007
The Observer (UK)
Nicolas Sarkozy, the front runner for the French presidency, has suggested that paedophilia is an incurable genetic disposition, that rioting Arab youths are scum and that an Orwellian sounding ministry for immigration and national identity is a good idea. Segolene Royal, his socialist challenger, wants the French to celebrate family, work and the flag. And on Friday, a suppressed official poll suggested that the racist Jean-Marie le Pen, who once described the Holocaust as a detail of history, will come second in next week's presidential ballot. He will be entitled to a run-off against Sarkozy, a repeat of the election he fought five years ago against Jacques Chirac and a sign that liberal and left forces in France are being routed.
It is an unhappy panorama. But there is little doubt that 30 years of sky-high unemployment, urban decay and a mounting sense that France is in incurable decline have begun to move this great Enlightenment country emphatically to the right. Even if the meltdown scenario of le Pen coming second in the first round of voting is avoided, its clear that a sullen, truculent mood has descended on France, the country above any other in Europe that has a track record of airing European-wide trends.
Which is why the first round of France's presidential elections next Sunday is so important. The vicious circle in which France is trapped - unemployment spreading, poor morale begetting more poor morale - clearly needs to be broken. Nobody disagrees that there must be a break with the old ways of doing things.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
How french of them.
Let them eat baklavah!!!
1. Crotchedy senior citizens (many of whom are Algerian war veterans) in the provinces. These comprise about 70% of his support.
2. Armenians and Levantine Christians.
3. Unemployable white guys with IQs below room temperature, particularly in the South.
...and right back into the Enlightenment. But it's not enough to knock any sense into those morons at the Guardian. Nothing is.
Too late I fear.
Yes—and it has resulted in sky-high unemployment, urban decay, a mounting sense that France is in incurable decline, and the vicious circle in which France is trapped - unemployment spreading, poor morale begetting more poor morale –
Don’t expect the yahoos at the Guardian to get the picture.
But fast enough to save itself???
Everyone can depend on the Guardian for the straight, unvarnished, news. They wouldn’t consider trying to slant the news to favor either side.
Hahahahahahhahaha!
What a nasty, snide, arrogant leftist this Mr. Hutton is.
It took a lot of work but I finally found a real nugget of wisdom hidden within the last sentence of the article.
“...things are going to get worse in France...”
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