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Lucky bastards, eh? The state not only pays for their FJRs, but lets 'em openly carry handguns. Tragically, yes. The strategy is apparently working: =~ 60% of the electorate likes her. As long as her face and body are on the tabloids' front pages, no one is stopping to ask why the repugnant little fascist she married has kept precisely zero of his election promises. D.
Good grief. Can you imagine Mrs Brown [don't even know her name] in the charts! A kind of French Princess Diana
Except better looking. The 'buzz word' right now is 'pouvoir d'achat', which is like 'buying power', i.e. how many packs of beer and tubes of Pringles your euro will stretch to. Inflation is 3% or so already this year. The government's favourite way of qualifying this is 'des Français', which means, 'the French's ...' No one seems to have noticed (or no one can be bothered pointing it out) that 'des Français' means (more or less) 'of the French'. i.e. _all_ the French. But it's not affecting all the French; only those who aren't scummy, repugnant, worker-exploiting, capitalist pigshit. But the government uses 'des Français' so that the sheep can nod and say, 'yeah, we're all in this together .. Nicolas feels for us, and he'll do everything he can ...' French society is, as they say, going to hell in a handbasket. I predicted this, and for once, I'd have preferred not to have been a visionary. The UK lived this from 1979 to 1990, and still hasn't recovered. But that was pre-9/11. Technology and its potential for mass surveillance have moved on since then, and the Republic is facing its most dangerous menace since June 1940. D.
I get the impression, if you asked him, he'd probably say something similar himself. Perhaps I'm just being pessimistic, but we do seem to be in something of a dark age with regard to world political leaders at the moment. More so than usual, I mean.
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Yes, we're in an age of mediocrity. The age of statesmen is dead. People become celebrities not in spite of being classless, talentless thickos .. but _because_ of it. UKRM fetes its morons and vilifies its intellectual. Just watched Anne Widdecombe being interviewed on Sky News, saying that the government needs emergency powers, 'just like we did in Northern Ireland'. The deferential wankstain interviewing her, didn't think to ask her why the existing terrorism-related laws aren't enough. It's not a good time to be bi-cultural. My friends and acquaintances who know I hail from the British Isles, ask me 'what went wrong in Britain?', and my British friends sort of look accusingly at me, wondering how France could have fallen into the hands of a fascist sixty-five years after defeating the last one. I don't really want to take the reins, but world events aren't leaving me much of a choice. D.
