Le Vote, France start to elect a new president

Skunkworks · 27 Apr 2017 at 15:26

B@Th*nG said:
so you keep saying *yawn* it's almost as if you're trying to undermine people's arguments by repeating the same inflammatory base rhetoric. You're a self-confessed smart man, tell me what would a person who does that be called?

B@

Remainer.

datalol-jack · 27 Apr 2017 at 15:27

Don't pop an artery, chaps. The banter from this will last decades.

Sankari · 27 Apr 2017 at 15:31

wildman · 27 Apr 2017 at 15:39

datalol-jack said:
Don't pop an artery, chaps. The banter from this will last decades.

bantonio banteras will be conducting bantenatal classes for the next 10 years..................

B@Th*nG · 27 Apr 2017 at 15:54

Skunkworks said:
Remainer.

you'd call yourself a remainer? well if you insist. you keep flying that EU flag there comrade.

B@

robgmun · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:22

Chaps, i'm not sure why you're even engaging with the salty remoaners, it's done, we're leaving, the fight is done

delta0 · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:42

Let's keep it on topic.

The polls have started closing up between Macron and Le Pen. There are 10 days left.

Freakbro · 27 Apr 2017 at 17:41

dowie said:
^^^ and this is why we can't have a Brexit thread in GD - people just post **** such as the above which doesn't serve to add to any discussion or argument but just makes a dig at the other side

At least having it in SC keeps the riff raff out

V F · 27 Apr 2017 at 17:52

datalol-jack said:
Perhaps it would've been easier if your version of reality existed and any Brexit argument still had any credibly sourced legs left? Same story with Scorza's worship of Trump and Breitbart.

There is also too many worshiping Obama over there as well. Thinks the guy done no wrong and so convinced he's been the best president of all time.

Sankari · 29 Apr 2017 at 12:27

Mélenchon refuses to endorse Macron; Le Pen promotes Holocaust denier, and promises to ban kosher butchers and yarmulkes.

dowie · 29 Apr 2017 at 13:46

Evangelion said:
Mélenchon refuses to endorse Macron; Le Pen promotes Holocaust denier, and promises to ban kosher butchers and yarmulkes.

but... what about the GD favourite: Halal?

I do wonder about that Mélenchon refusal, I wonder if like Bernie supporters bizarrely switching for Trump some of his supporters will switch to Le Pen as an anti establishment party... then again I know very little about his supporters. It does seem a bit odd for the Socialist to not take a stance here between a centrist and a very right wing candidate - surely he ought to get over his differences between the centrist stance and at least support that of Le Pen?

Amp34 · 29 Apr 2017 at 16:08

robgmun said:
Chaps, i'm not sure why you're even engaging with the salty remoaners, it's done, we're leaving, the fight is done

And in 15-20 years time we will be back again, but this time without vetos, rebates and dropping the Pound for the Euro.

Amp34 · 29 Apr 2017 at 16:13

dowie said:
but... what about the GD favourite: Halal?

I do wonder about that Mélenchon refusal, I wonder if like Bernie supporters bizarrely switching for Trump some of his supporters will switch to Le Pen as an anti establishment party... then again I know very little about his supporters. It does seem a bit odd for the Socialist to not take a stance here between a centrist and a very right wing candidate - surely he ought to get over his differences between the centrist stance and at least support that of Le Pen?

While he refused to endorse Macron he was very adamant in not voting for Le Pen.

Melenchon, who came fourth in Sunday’s first-round vote, said he won’t vote for the anti-euro nationalist Marine Le Pen in the runoff on the May 7 in a 32-minute video posted on his official YouTube channel late Friday. But he also aimed criticism at the centrist Macron who has won endorsements from most of his mainstream rivals, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.blo...macron-as-le-pen-scraps-to-win-his-supporters

dowie · 29 Apr 2017 at 17:37

Amp34 said:
And in 15-20 years time we will be back again, but this time without vetos, rebates and dropping the Pound for the Euro.

possible but unlikely

it is also quite possible that the euro as it is will be no more - potentially splitting into two currencies or countries simply going back to their national currencies

I wouldn't like to see the EU end however I don't think we'll be the only country to leave over that time period either

Amp34 · 29 Apr 2017 at 20:20

As the older generation die off I think it's pretty likely, especially if the EU is still around and especially if it's going from strength to strength.

As for joining the Euro (assuming it is still called the Euro) that will almost certainly be part of any joining deal, unlike the current deal where we get to keep the pound.

Time moves on, as it always does. The world is becoming increasingly homogenous, global and connected. All we are having now is a fight by the old guard trying to "preserve" what they believe is their way of life and the inevitable march towards the future, whether that be Le Pen voters, brexiteers or ISIS for that matter.

kitch9 · 29 Apr 2017 at 21:02

Amp34 said:
And in 15-20 years time we will be back again, but this time without vetos, rebates and dropping the Pound for the Euro.

Nope. Not a chance in hell if we actually do leave in the first place.

Amp34 · 29 Apr 2017 at 21:06

kitch9 said:
Nope. Not a chance in hell if we actually do leave in the first place.

Any particular reason why?

jjwf · 29 Apr 2017 at 21:17

Amp34 said:
As the older generation die off I think it's pretty likely, especially if the EU is still around and especially if it's going from strength to strength.

As for joining the Euro (assuming it is still called the Euro) that will almost certainly be part of any joining deal, unlike the current deal where we get to keep the pound.

Time moves on, as it always does. The world is becoming increasingly homogenous, global and connected. All we are having now is a fight by the old guard trying to "preserve" what they believe is their way of life and the inevitable march towards the future, whether that be Le Pen voters, brexiteers or ISIS for that matter.

No chance we'll rejoin in 15-20 years. For one the UK will never give up Sterling.

Skunkworks · 29 Apr 2017 at 21:43

Amp34 said:
The world is becoming increasingly homogenous, global and connected. All we are having now is a fight by the old guard trying to "preserve" what they believe is their way of life and the inevitable march towards the future, whether that be Le Pen voters, brexiteers or ISIS for that matter.

The majority of the 6th form marxists will grow up and become the new "old guard".

Caged · 29 Apr 2017 at 21:56

Are you only allowed to post off a limited list of phrases?