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Sarkozy Gone

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    #62
    golden lane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    maybe bad news for the sheep.....standing in trailers on the road........


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    #63
    Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,476 ✭✭✭Samba


    golden lane wrote: »
    maybe bad news for the sheep.....standing in trailers on the road........

    Ignorance is bliss...isn't it...


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    #64
    darlett
    Registered Users Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭darlett


    Pedant wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

    TUNE!!!



    As the kids say ;)


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    #65
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    darlett wrote: »
    TUNE!!!



    As the kids say ;)

    It represents a vile piece of filth.


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    #66
    SuperDude87
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭SuperDude87


    Ghandee wrote: »

    Interesting times ahead, Angela will know her maker now! :D

    Are you serious? Have you seen the man speak in public? The only thing he'll scare is the chocolate cupboards in the Elysée....:rolleyes:


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    #67
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    Sure there is no point in us voting on the austerity treaty then


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    #68
    darlett
    Registered Users Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭darlett


    dsmythy wrote: »
    Oh he's also going to tax the rich, reduce their deficit to 0% by 2017, have lots of new teachers and coppers and tonnes of government sponsored jobs all while reducing the retirement age from 62 to 60. He's just amazing.

    Once he doesnt have an unhealthy obsession with trying to rise our corporation tax as punishment for us use borrowing from europe so we dont default on our debt to europe...whilst ignoring the truth about his own low corporation tax, I'll have to agree he's amazing and a very welcome change


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    #69
    darlett
    Registered Users Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭darlett


    Pedant wrote: »
    It represents a vile piece of filth.

    As does a lot of the stuff in the charts thesedays


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    #70
    golden lane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Samba wrote: »
    Ignorance is bliss...isn't it...

    yes, but be carefull...


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    #71
    Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,476 ✭✭✭Samba


    golden lane wrote: »
    yes, but be carefull...

    Don't worry, you won't know what hit you.


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    #72
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    ive hated him since he handled the ball against us that night


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    #73
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users Posts: 8,301 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    Congratulations to Francois Hollande.

    I have to say it is a welcome change rather than looking at Sarkozy. That image of Edna being patted on the head by Sarkozy is probably going to so infamous, it will have a haunting feel to it thereafter to those looking at Ireland.

    Let us make sure that Hollande does not do the same thing. We will love even more for not doing it.


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    #74
    flyswatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    This new guy doesn't have much experience. He's been in the party a while but hasn't even been a minister yet.


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    #75
    steve9859
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭steve9859


    Pedant wrote: »
    It represents a vile piece of filth.

    That may be....but they sure knew how to write a good tune!


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    #76
    golden lane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Samba wrote: »
    Don't worry, you won't know what hit you.

    maybe a dead carcase........they are good at that.........


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    #77
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Pedant wrote: »
    Does this mean another France-German war?

    No not at all . Germany now owns France


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    #78
    Channel Zero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭Channel Zero


    Great news altogether!
    Viva equality!

    The French have realised that Sarkozy's neo-liberal policies were a failure and voted as such.

    I have a feeling that Mr. Hollande won't be just another one of Angela's asses.


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    #79
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Great news.

    An end to the Franco German axis in Europe now France got a Socialist! ;)

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #80
    Sappa
    Registered Users Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    flyswatter wrote: »
    This new guy doesn't have much experience. He's been in the party a while but hasn't even been a minister yet.
    Even better he won't have been corrupted yet and can force real change.


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    #81
    ascanbe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Irrelevant, unless this fellow genuinely has the 'sand', or even the inclination, to stand up to the banking over-lords that now rule him and dictate every important decision made on the playing-field on which he's now a supposed player.


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    #82
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    France just became cool again!


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    #83
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users Posts: 13,293 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    flyswatter wrote: »
    This new guy doesn't have much experience. He's been in the party a while but hasn't even been a minister yet.

    He's had important roles within the party in opposition, and in various French cantons in a leadership role.
    And not having previously had a ministerial role at government level before becoming Premier isn't really that unusual, off the top off my head Obama, Blair and Cameron would be the same. Which is not to say its ideal as one could obviously argue about the merits of the job any of those 3 have done, but it's not unusual per se.


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    #84
    ascanbe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Stinicker wrote: »
    France just became cool again!

    How pithy..


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    #85
    dsmythy
    Registered Users Posts: 10,508 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Stinicker wrote: »
    France just became cool again!

    Hollande is decidedly uncool. Personality of a plank. Him and Enda will have good times.


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    #86
    TehDagsBass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭TehDagsBass


    Crikey, I'm used to reading low-brow posting on this forum here but this thread really takes the biscuit.

    While I'm glad to see the end of the Sarkozy-Merkel alliance, I'm not glad to see the EU being thrown so violently into uncertainty. Coupled with Greece's antics, there is no telling what is ahead.

    We want stability in the EU, not uncertainty. Uncertainty and a drop in confidence in the Union and its currency are not good things, no matter what some here may like to think.


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    #87
    ascanbe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    TehDagsBass wrote: »
    Crikey, I'm used to reading low-brow posting on this forum here but this thread really takes the biscuit.

    While I'm glad to see the end of the Sarkozy-Merkel alliance, I'm not glad to see the EU being thrown so violently into uncertainty. Coupled with Greece's antics, there is no telling what is ahead.

    We want stability in the EU, not uncertainty. Uncertainty and a drop in confidence in the Union and its currency are not good things, no matter what some here may like to think.

    Yeah.
    Carn' sarn' these damn 'elections'; letting the great unwashed stick their noses into things could really threaten this precious 'stability' we're now all reaping the benifits of.
    Why not just let the EU/ECB choose the leaders of every country, as they have in Greece and Italy, and this wonderful 'stability' can go on forever.


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    #88
    TehDagsBass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭TehDagsBass


    ascanbe wrote: »
    Yeah.
    Carn' sarn' these damn 'elections'; letting the great unwashed stick their noses into things could really threaten this precious 'stability' we're now all reaping the benifits of.
    Why not just let the EU/ECB choose the leaders of every country, as they have in Greece and Italy, and this wonderful 'stability' can go on forever.
    You can obviously read, maybe just not interpret the text properly?

    I said I was glad to see the back of Sarkozy, but the downside of it is that it brings uncertainty into a situation where more uncertainty is absolutely not desired.

    With that being said, I'm sure Hollande and Merkel will soon be bosom buddies fairly rapidly. Think before replying next time, I'm not one to sit through anti-EU ramblings made for the sake of making anti-EU ramblings.


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    #89
    batistuta9
    Registered Users Posts: 8,088 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    TehDagsBass wrote: »
    You can obviously read, maybe just not interpret the text properly?

    I said I was glad to see the back of Sarkozy, but the downside of it is that it brings uncertainty into a situation where more uncertainty is absolutely not desired.

    With that being said, I'm sure Hollande and Merkel will soon be bosom buddies fairly rapidly. Think before replying next time, I'm not one to sit through anti-EU ramblings made for the sake of making anti-EU ramblings.

    go to the politics forum then if you want a proper discussion


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    #90
    ascanbe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    TehDagsBass wrote: »
    You can obviously read, maybe just not interpret the text properly?

    I said I was glad to see the back of Sarkozy, but the downside of it is that it brings uncertainty into a situation where more uncertainty is absolutely not desired.

    With that being said, I'm sure Hollande and Merkel will soon be bosom buddies fairly rapidly. Think before replying next time, I'm not one to sit through anti-EU ramblings made for the sake of making anti-EU ramblings.

    Yes, as you stated, needlessly, i can read.
    I happen to have an entirely different perspective to you on this issue and as such, coming from that perspective, responded to your initial comment.
    Attempting to label me, on what little you could possibly have parsed from my comment, as someone who is mindlessly 'anti-eu' and is subjecting you to mindless 'anti-eu ramblings' is much more revealing of your mind-set than it is of mine.


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    #91
    Mickey H
    Registered Users Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Hmm. Small loss.

    /Pun Intended.


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