I… don’t think Denmark has any designs regarding expanding their real esate…
Italy *might* but I can’t see how that would improve the situation..
L'Otto de Kring
1 year ago
C’est les temps pour cordes a piano et lamppadaires , les lions grandes avec et les rayons de mort et naturellement une visitation de Madame Guillotine.
Martin Near The M25
1 year ago
I think they vote in a new PM for this week.
The Meissen Bison
1 year ago
For those, ahem, confused about the past ownership of bits of France Jonathan Sumption’s five volume work on the Hundred Years War is a must.
As to the present, there will be another powerless administration which will not take long to fall apart. Le Pen was deprived of a majority at the legislative elections thanks to a stitch up between the Macronistes and the left/hard left alliance whose divergence on all matters of policy make them ill-suited bed-fellows for government. Still, they kept Le Pen out, phew!
Grist
1 year ago
For some reason I’m reminded of a remark by a Welsh woman on a balmy night in the rooftop bar of a hotel in Sorrento 45 years ago. “I love Italy. The only problem is the bloody Italians…”.
Perhaps I should track her down and ask her views on France…
That is, in fact, what every Italian would say about Naples….
Norman
1 year ago
The Welsh don’t have much room to talk.
Well, the French did invent the word dirigiste, but then again they also invented entrepreneur and rentier.
I think we need a new definition of rentier. As I understand it a rentier is someone who extracts an economic rent from their own property. Modern rentiers extract that rent from other people’s property. This is the public sector and bennies business model. It’s also the entire French business model when it comes to the rest of the EU, and the EU has noticed.
I think we’d all like to live like our idea of how La France Profunde does. Problem is, someone else has to pay for it.
Grikath
1 year ago
Not confused at all , TMB…. If you’re going to use historical claims… 😛
oooohh… Forgot the germans.. Through Carolingia..
But if you’re not accepting the Danes… Then France would have claim on the UK before the other way around… Since the Normans were “french”…. ish..
Simon Neale
1 year ago
Could we have Calais back? It would make days across the Channel a bit like going to the Isle of Wight, and we could destroy the dinghy trade.
philip
1 year ago
It’s the Third Republic again. Remind me how that ended.
Ahead of the vote, Barnier told the National Assembly that voting him out of office would not solve the country’s financial problems.
“We have reached a moment of truth, of responsibility,” he said, adding that “we need to look at the realities of our debt”.
Ze Moment of Truth always requires you to be poorer and pay more taxes. It never requires cutting spending on:
* Net Zero
* Public sector “workers”
* All those millions of footloose Africans and their love of consuming welfare budgets and the criminal justice budget
* The EU
Off with their heads.
Nautical Nick
1 year ago
For Barnier, the clock ticked until it struck one…
Diogenes
1 year ago
Wasn’t someone on “who do you think you are” was descended from the Plantagenets? Danny Dyer?
Diogenes
1 year ago
NN Barnier was cast as the fall guy and he played a pretty good hand. How do you get the French to admit that they are bankrupt? Mind you, it’s all about to happen in Spain sometime soon. And some people still regret leaving the EU
Diogenes
1 year ago
Craig
If you have access to the records, probably about 20% of English people have some trace of Plantagenet blood
I… don’t think Denmark has any designs regarding expanding their real esate…
Italy *might* but I can’t see how that would improve the situation..
C’est les temps pour cordes a piano et lamppadaires , les lions grandes avec et les rayons de mort et naturellement une visitation de Madame Guillotine.
I think they vote in a new PM for this week.
For those, ahem, confused about the past ownership of bits of France Jonathan Sumption’s five volume work on the Hundred Years War is a must.
As to the present, there will be another powerless administration which will not take long to fall apart. Le Pen was deprived of a majority at the legislative elections thanks to a stitch up between the Macronistes and the left/hard left alliance whose divergence on all matters of policy make them ill-suited bed-fellows for government. Still, they kept Le Pen out, phew!
For some reason I’m reminded of a remark by a Welsh woman on a balmy night in the rooftop bar of a hotel in Sorrento 45 years ago. “I love Italy. The only problem is the bloody Italians…”.
Perhaps I should track her down and ask her views on France…
That is, in fact, what every Italian would say about Naples….
The Welsh don’t have much room to talk.
Well, the French did invent the word dirigiste, but then again they also invented entrepreneur and rentier.
I think we need a new definition of rentier. As I understand it a rentier is someone who extracts an economic rent from their own property. Modern rentiers extract that rent from other people’s property. This is the public sector and bennies business model. It’s also the entire French business model when it comes to the rest of the EU, and the EU has noticed.
I think we’d all like to live like our idea of how La France Profunde does. Problem is, someone else has to pay for it.
Not confused at all , TMB…. If you’re going to use historical claims… 😛
oooohh… Forgot the germans.. Through Carolingia..
But if you’re not accepting the Danes… Then France would have claim on the UK before the other way around… Since the Normans were “french”…. ish..
Could we have Calais back? It would make days across the Channel a bit like going to the Isle of Wight, and we could destroy the dinghy trade.
It’s the Third Republic again. Remind me how that ended.
Oi! Don’t forget Calais!
Are there any Plantagenets left?
Fantastique.
Now get the granny shagging midget.
Ahead of the vote, Barnier told the National Assembly that voting him out of office would not solve the country’s financial problems.
“We have reached a moment of truth, of responsibility,” he said, adding that “we need to look at the realities of our debt”.
Ze Moment of Truth always requires you to be poorer and pay more taxes. It never requires cutting spending on:
* Net Zero
* Public sector “workers”
* All those millions of footloose Africans and their love of consuming welfare budgets and the criminal justice budget
* The EU
Off with their heads.
For Barnier, the clock ticked until it struck one…
Wasn’t someone on “who do you think you are” was descended from the Plantagenets? Danny Dyer?
NN Barnier was cast as the fall guy and he played a pretty good hand. How do you get the French to admit that they are bankrupt? Mind you, it’s all about to happen in Spain sometime soon. And some people still regret leaving the EU
Craig
If you have access to the records, probably about 20% of English people have some trace of Plantagenet blood
Craig,
This is quite fun:
https://europeanroyalhistory.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/living-male-line-plantagenet-descendents/
– asumming it is all kosher.