French Election - Hollande Wins

[Tyron]

I exit one thread, to find you in another thread spouting the same nonsense You're one paranoid dude

And you live in a dream world fed by the sun

 

[Uther]

. Part of me feels the majority of voters will have just decided that they don't like the cuts and recession and just voted for the opposition regardless of what his polices were.

I have absolutely no doubt, at all, that in three years time Labour will be voted back in to power here.

Be interesting to see what, if anything Hollande can do with Merkel now.

 

[Marky]

And you live in a dream world fed by the sun

 

[LordSplodge]

Never liked Sarkozy anyway. However this mirrors what will happen here when the idiots vote Labour back in. "Coz they don't cut. They gives us moar benefits. Init"

 

[Tyron]

Thanks for proving my point Marky.

 

[DirtyJester]

Le .... whateva

 

[Strife212]

Thanks for proving my point Marky.

If anything Sarkozy is "their" guy, so your point makes no sense anyway.

 

[kwerk]

Lol.

Typical right wingers.

Blame socialism for poor fiscal regulation, excesses of greed in the finance sector & ignoring systemic risk.

Yeah, we got into the global financial crisis because of welfare payment for the poor.....

There's only one reason for the crisis. Spending more than you take in. They could tax everyone in France at 100% and still wouldn't have enough to pay for it. And that was BEFORE Hallande.

This is going to be an absolute total flipping train wreck.

 

[kwerk]

Feel sorry for them

I feel sorry for the private sector middle class who actually produce something. I would bet there are tens of thousands of them loading up rosetta stone "learn american english" right now making their exit plans to flee the socialist tax slave plantation.

 

[Marky]

Anyone else think of this when you hear the name:

 

[Destination]

Merkel won't want anything to do with it. Her and Sarkozy spent weeks and weeks getting their treaty sorted. Part of me feels the majority of voters will have just decided that they don't like the cuts and recession and just voted for the opposition regardless of what his polices were.

This sounds right, no cash, so cuts appear.
Someone promises magic money from the cloud of endless giving, and people vote for Ed Milliband/Balls (or his French equivalent) like idiots. What will be interesting to see is if he actually does start trying to spend his way out of trouble, or if he suddenly sees the books, realises little can be done, and implements cuts that aren't just as severe as they might have been.

 

[The Funktopus]

The election result in France has left Europeans united in asking the one question : Is Hollande's wife anywhere near as hot as Carla Bruni?

 

[semi-pro waster]

Because power does what it wants regardless of the people.

Computers/changing numbers?

So just to check your reason for presuming electoral fraud is basically gut feeling rather than any cogent evidence?

Although as pointed out wouldn't Sarkozy be a better bet to keep in power as a right-winger who isn't promising much higher tax rates on the wealthy? I'm presuming for the moment that you're equating the wealthy with the powerful.

 

[Strife212]

These french elections are crazy, watching it on BBC, no one cares when a new prime minister gets elected in the UK

 

[Freefaller]

Dammit

 

[Tyron]

So just to check your reason for presuming electoral fraud is basically gut feeling rather than any cogent evidence?

If I had evidence I would be silenced/killed because that would be a national threat and destroy the politcal process so of course I can't prove it.

Although as pointed out wouldn't Sarkozy be a better bet to keep in power as a right-winger who isn't promising much higher tax rates on the wealthy?

Just like in England and look what's happening. Serious cuts need to be made but they're forcing them in the wrong places.

I'm presuming for the moment that you're equating the wealthy with the powerful.

Money comes with power but I'm not refering to the higher class.

 

[kibblerok]

Didn't like the sneering attitude of Sarkozy.

As I've said elsewhere, there has to be a middle ground between unabated austerity of the current government (both here and in Europe) and the frittering away of money of previous governments.

 

[Strife212]

Spending is up since Labour were in.

 

[singularity]

I love elections in the spring

 

[FeFiDoh]

Not great with politics but his ideas seem some what far fetched. It looks like he has just promised things people really want to hear, yet probably aren't very possible?
Lower retirement age from 62 to 60, raise minimum wage, 60k more teachers. How will it all be funded?