Le Pen no longer a real opposition

Jeremy1012
Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
edited April 2007 in A Moving Train
finally that racist piece of shit scum finds out that people aren't buying his hateful polemic anymore. I don't even care if Sarkozy gets in now that the french have relegated the FN to fourth.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Yep. At least the French showed some motivation (this time around).

    Now we have to convince the British to vote at the coming local elections, or the BNP will make gains. The situation reminds me of Yeats's lines from "The Second Coming":

    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.
  • Blanche
    Blanche Posts: 247
    Le Pen himself will never be a threat as far as government is concerned
    I would worry more about how Sarkozy is wooing the far-right electorate.

    Not that Ségolène is a better deal.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Yep. At least the French showed some motivation (this time around).

    Now we have to convince the British to vote at the coming local elections, or the BNP will make gains. The situation reminds me of Yeats's lines from "The Second Coming":

    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.
    and more worryingly fins, "things fall apart" ;)

    which is incidentally a rather good book by Chinua Achebe.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    and more worryingly fins, "things fall apart" ;)

    which is incidentally a rather good book by Chinua Achebe.

    It is. I've run book clubs on that one. On a side note, I got around to reading "No Longer at Ease" recently. It's an interesting follow-up.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    finally that racist piece of shit scum finds out that people aren't buying his hateful polemic anymore. I don't even care if Sarkozy gets in now that the french have relegated the FN to fourth.

    Le Pen supporters will find Sarkozy most appealing... He is rehashing Le Pen's pet ideologies and making them more palatable to the general public.....

    But at least the French did vote en masse this time....
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    redrock wrote:
    Le Pen supporters will find Sarkozy most appealing... He is rehashing Le Pen's pet ideologies and making them more palatable to the general public.....

    But at least the French did vote en masse this time....
    yeah but for all of sarkozy being your typical sleazy right wing type, he isn't going to go as far as Le Pen would like so its best that he takes the votes rather than le FN.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    i don't know if i like either in the run-off ... i lean way left but i'm afraid Royal is too inexperienced and stubborn to govern properly which usually results in a post-election dramatic shift to the right ...
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    Sarkozy kinda scares me. Power hungry and right wing usually don't equal something good.
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