May/070
Nouveau President
So France has a new president. The boy Sarko pulled in in front of that woman (whose name I've already forgotten). Amazingly 85% of registered voters turned out to vote. That's got to be the highest turn out in any flabby western democracy in recent generations surely?
OK, so the geezer is a bit of a fascist bastard, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The first thing he's said is that he's going to 'create a country where hard work is valued'. Good luck with that. It's certainly not valued here in France at the moment. The 35 hour working week maximum has GOT to go.
I don't think working hard was respected in the UK in the years prior to Thatcher getting her borderline-psychotic hands on power. I grew up in that era, one of Thatchers Children. I didn't have any choice in that fact, but I can't see that it's done me any harm and I'm confident that if Sarko does what he has in mind then small French children will grow up in a stronger, healthier, more respected France then they would have had the people decided to go with the wishy-washy-leftie option.
Heil Sarko
