I was (uselessly, I know) hoping for Le Pen and Melenchon in the second round. Just for the sheer joy of watching what happened next as two loons fought it out.
I was (uselessly, I know) hoping for Le Pen and Melenchon in the second round. Just for the sheer joy of watching what happened next as two loons fought it out.
seems to be all the parties and candidates in the French upteeth republic are all statist loons.
Interesting that the FN did so well. Given that the core racist-Poujadist voters are say 10% the rest have just voted against the EU?
Didn’t someone say that the FN is the most popular party among the 18-24 year olds?
Shades of Ron Paul?
Bit of an odd combination: “Francois Hollande wants to target the rich with a 75% tax rate on those earning more than €1m a year… He plans to limit executive pay to 20 times the average wage”. So no one will be earning more than €1m a year then.
Better than Melenchon – wasn’t he after a 100% tax on anything over €300k?
Anyway JJ, not all earnings are wages.
“Anyway JJ, not all earnings are wages”
I know, I know, good joke though.
It occurs to me: why stop there? Why not limit all earnings to 20 times the average wage?
Also, now that the “far-right” Marine Le Pen has supposedly stopped focusing on immigration, are we allowed to start calling her the “far-left” Marine Le Pen?
SMSF: if they did, they were exaggerating. The opinion poll breakdown (which is the best we can get, cos obviously the actual results aren’t demographically segmented) suggests 31% Hollande, 23% Le Pen, 21% Sarko. So a combination of Ron Paul-ery and right-leaning kids rejecting the hated incumbent.
BiF: that’s applying a British filter to events. More like, hating the austerity consensus and believing the two main parties have nothing to offer.