[golden lane]

Originally Posted by Samba

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

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

[tfitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Pedant

Does this mean another France-German war?

No not at all . Germany now owns France

[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.

[K-9]

Great news.

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

[Sappa]

Originally Posted by 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.

Even better he won't have been corrupted yet and can force real change.

[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.

[Stinicker]

France just became cool again!

[ArmaniJeanss]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[ascanbe]

Originally Posted by Stinicker

France just became cool again!

How pithy..

[dsmythy]

Originally Posted by Stinicker

France just became cool again!

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

[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.

[ascanbe]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[TehDagsBass]

Originally Posted by ascanbe

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.

[batistuta9]

Originally Posted by TehDagsBass

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

[ascanbe]

Originally Posted by TehDagsBass

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.