Sarkozy Gone

woodoo

Great news. Sarko was untrustworthy and had a bit of a gripe against us.

Biggins

woodoo wrote: »

Great news. Sarko was untrustworthy and had a bit of a gripe against us.

Indeed, he was a nasty piece of work altogether.

tayto lover

The Treaty Referendum should now be postponed. Let the fun begin.

forfuxsake

Dunny! wrote: »

oou?

FYP

JONJO THE MISER

Great news, bye bye Sarkozy, ill give you a pat on the head.

steve9859

Great news for Europe. I honestly don't believe it matters any more whether we vote yes or no, as this treaty stands zero chance of getting implemented as currently written IMO

holystungun9

Surley wrote: »

Slightly off topic but, how exactly do the French get the results of elections so fast?

We sold them our electronic voting machines that cost us seventy-hundred-thousand-million euros (purchase and storage etc.) for about 400 yoyos plus VAT.

Sindri

Enda will be disappointed. No more passionate Gallic sodomy.

superstoner90

When I read the title, I thought it was some member that left boards.

Samba

steve9859 wrote: »

Great news for Europe. I honestly don't believe it matters any more whether we vote yes or no, as this treaty stands zero chance of getting implemented as currently written IMO

No, it's great news for the French who want to return to retiring at the age of 30 and working 20 hours a week, it's terrible news for Europe, but then again, maybe what Europe really needs is for the € to fail.

golden lane

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

Samba

golden lane wrote: »

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

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

darlett

Pedant wrote: »

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

TUNE!!!



As the kids say

Pedant

darlett wrote: »

TUNE!!!



As the kids say

It represents a vile piece of filth.

SuperDude87

Ghandee wrote: »

Interesting times ahead, Angela will know her maker now!

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:

Fenian Army

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

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

darlett

Pedant wrote: »

It represents a vile piece of filth.

As does a lot of the stuff in the charts thesedays

golden lane

Samba wrote: »

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

yes, but be carefull...

Samba

golden lane wrote: »

yes, but be carefull...

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

admiralofthefleet

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

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.

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.

steve9859

Pedant wrote: »

It represents a vile piece of filth.

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

golden lane

Samba wrote: »

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

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

tfitzgerald

Pedant wrote: »

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

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.

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

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.

ascanbe

Stinicker wrote: »

France just became cool again!

How pithy..

dsmythy

Stinicker wrote: »

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Mickey H

Hmm. Small loss.

/Pun Intended.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The French constantly embarrass themselves in global combat, When I get power over you people I'll attack France first as I feel even a peasant race such as ourselves could take a bunch of cigarette smoking, wine drinking, flamers.

Nodin

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The French constantly embarrass themselves in global combat, ........

You're sure on that one, now?

Sappa

They held the English with the biggest naval fleet at it's time to a 100 yr war.
Sure we could launch a strike first with our cesna 172 followed by the pilatus.
Sure the French only have those damn Dassault Rafales or the Mirage that is no match to our airforce.
We wouldn't last a landing on there beach.

Tym

The French constantly embarrass themselves in global combat,

May not count as global, but Napolean kind of proves that wrong. It was the closest thing to global in that time.

Does anybody think taxing people who make more than 1.3 mil per year 70 percent is a bit much:S
I guess if it's on the upper that's grand, but if it's in total...yeah, if I worked hard for my money I wouldn't want just under 3/4 of it to be gone:S

Nodin

Tym wrote: »

May not count as global, but Napolean kind of proves that wrong. It was the closest thing to global in that time.

Does anybody think taxing people who make more than 1.3 mil per year 70 percent is a bit much:S
I guess if it's on the upper that's grand, but if it's in total...yeah, if I worked hard for my money I wouldn't want just under 3/4 of it to be gone:S

Its never going to be 3/4's once tax breaks and allowances are worked in.

Dudess

hondasam wrote: »

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

She will leave him now, I would put money on it.

who else would have her, have you seen her pics lately she is ruined with surgery gone wrong. She is not a pretty face.

Yeah, monstrous-looking - clearly. No man would fancy her at all.

Lionel Messy

Sarkozy has a rather punchable head.

flyswatter

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The French constantly embarrass themselves in global combat, When I get power over you people I'll attack France first as I feel even a peasant race such as ourselves could take a bunch of cigarette smoking, wine drinking, flamers.

You obviously weren't following the Libya crisis then. Sarkozy was impressive there, even though I don't like him.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

BUH BYE

D1CKHEAD

Dudess

Socialist doesn't automatically mean soviet style oppression btw.
There's some very silly hysteria over that word