The Royal Road to Irrelevance

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• Reader Comments (6)

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  She sounds and looks great ! What’s Ireland’s problem ? She probably gave him the brushoff….................Anyone have her mailing address ?

  Posted by blondemike on Mar 28, 2007 at 10:06 PM

  Yes she looks hot, but she is espousing “Law and Order” type conservative politics, and is only nominally left leaning

  see link here
  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/frsp-n18.shtml

  Posted by konformer20 on Apr 3, 2007 at 6:51 PM

  Thanks, I’ll check it out. You do know that to the Trots of the Fourth International at world socialist website everything looks rightist…...
  but you remind me that I haven’t checked them out in a while.

  Posted by blondemike on Apr 4, 2007 at 9:06 PM

  ‘Unpredictable’  is the word .

  konformer—thanks for the article. Reminded me of some stuff that I hadn’t concentrated enough on.

  Fabius, and particularly DSK and Royal,  are all too far to the Right for me; and I am NOT “far-left” at all.  We all live in mixed economies.

  Should any french-speakers turn up here, an interesting speech by Bayrou at Evreux a coupla weeks ago.

  Bayrou

  I particularly appreciated his view on immigration, which was to understand that Life in much of Africa is such hell that people will die to get somewhere better, ( as many hundreds do every year ) and the real solution is to pull fingers out and help that Continent.

  
  First step is to roll back the ‘Free trade’ and ‘market-opening’ and ‘privatising’  Juggernaut of the WTO . Europe was rebuilt after 1945 with the Marshall Plan, and behind tariff barriers.

  Protectionism is a dirty word !

  Posted by frog on Apr 8, 2007 at 8:48 PM

  “she is espousing “Law and Order” type conservative politics” you say

  Yes, you are right, but more like Mao, Staline, Pol Pot, take your pick

  Please look closer and you might find Royal’s team is packed with folks who spent their life in sovietizing the French people. Be it Jospin, Guigou, Picard, and so forth, they all did their share (from discreet freemason temples) in attacking whatever was new, innovating, or coming from the US of A. They created monopoly in education, medicine, telecommunication, energy, everywhere. They even changed (with unexpected success I might add) good old ‘separation of church and state’—they called it ‘laicité’, a good cause, into a new religion-like cause now known abroad as ‘laicism’ whose goal it is (they make no mystery about it) to destroy all religions and belief systems, except, of course, their own ‘humanisme’, yet another lullaby front cover for collectivist monopolies in France

  Posted by nicola on Apr 9, 2007 at 9:06 AM

  REAL solution is to end all foreign aid and get the cannibal govts a la Mugabe off the backs of their people. Total Laissez-faire capitalism is the only hope for Africa and everyplace else.

  Posted by blondemike on Apr 9, 2007 at 8:38 PM

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