tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5476043688166279353.post3917387573546642749..comments2023-09-27T09:34:56.839+01:00Comments on Blackheath Addick: French Presidential ElectionBurgundy Addickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12203516889598003723noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5476043688166279353.post-30819240950579942622017-04-28T16:55:03.683+01:002017-04-28T16:55:03.683+01:00Thanks for the comments guys. Can't disagree w...Thanks for the comments guys. Can't disagree with the views expressed, it would be utterly shameful for France - and a disaster for all of Europe - were Le Pen to pull it off. Burgundy Addickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12203516889598003723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5476043688166279353.post-70217129840409099782017-04-28T15:20:38.362+01:002017-04-28T15:20:38.362+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.a2cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5476043688166279353.post-42423703146800078552017-04-28T14:30:05.884+01:002017-04-28T14:30:05.884+01:00Le Pen jnr is an even more reprehensible organism ...Le Pen jnr is an even more reprehensible organism than her father. In truth she espouses all his white supremacist obscenity but dresses it up in slightly less unpalatable rhetoric. This 2nd vote will reveal how gullible and/or bigoted is the french population. The rise of hateful activists to levels of perceived political credibility, even high office, serves as a withering condemnation of the wider political class and its near fatal complacency. Too many snouts in too many troughs, too many minds occupied solely by their own careers, so cocooned from real accountability, so detached from the obligations to which they pay lip service. Le Pen may spout repugnant views but we know she's sincere. She is only the 2nd most popular candidate because the traditional party animals continue to discredit themselves with their self serving abuse of position. The problem isn't exclusively french. Whoever convinced Cameron that the tory majority at the 2015 election was fragile enough that the nation's future was a gamble worth taking on an EU in/out referendum, deserves to be exposed. The republican party in USA is so far from fit for purpose that it couldn't prevent a racist, sexist, tax dodging buffoon from acquiring the presidential nomination. The democrats are as far from credibility that they couldn't organise themselves to defeat said buffoon in the election. If the french political establishment fails to organise itself to prevent a white supremacist demagogue from attaining the highest office, it will be their own fault, but woe betide their citizens and neighbours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5476043688166279353.post-90903057222159617182017-04-28T14:17:56.687+01:002017-04-28T14:17:56.687+01:00Hopefully the exenophobes and their ilk do not get...Hopefully the exenophobes and their ilk do not get in :) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5476043688166279353.post-15667248462256035302017-04-28T10:25:49.300+01:002017-04-28T10:25:49.300+01:00That sounds like a very good summary of what is/ha...That sounds like a very good summary of what is/has been happening in France. I remember being in Iran with my French wife when the Jospin/Le Pen result came in. Even our Iranian chauffeur/guide seemed amazingly surprised at the result. He could not remember Le Pen's name so we went through all the possible names and last on our list was Le Pen. We're off to the Aeolian Isles next Thursday so my daughter (who has French nationality unlike me) will have the proxy vote of my wife. Please not another voting disaster....AlanFromParishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10927203624380094056noreply@blogger.com