BS: What's all the fuss...French Erections?

Subject: RE: BS: What's all the fuss...French Erections?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 May 17 - 11:10 PM

No, no, this is fascinating. So nice to see civilization... y'all seen the horrible stuff happening in my town?

Subject: RE: BS: What's all the fuss...French Erections?
From: Teribus
Date: 15 May 17 - 02:14 AM

He/She said he/she wanted to draw left and right together, solve .........'s (Insert name of country here) economic problems and heal its divisions, and bring ........... (Insert name of country here) back to being an exemplar for the world.

In other words the bog standard post election, victory, inauguration speech of every President or Prime Minister ever elected.

Macron's problem will be how he is going to do it and with what political backing and will. Francois Hollande set out along the same path in 2012 with the full backing of the Socialist Party and failed.

Subject: RE: BS: What's all the fuss...French Erections?
From: Thompson
Date: 15 May 17 - 01:55 PM

True, Teribus - Margaret Thatcher quoted St Francis…

Macron has chosen his prime minister: Mayor of Le Havre Edouard Philippe, who abstained on the vote for 'mariage pour tous', or same-sex marriage, and on a proposed law giving men and women legal equality. Like Macron he was schooled in two elite universities: Sciences Po and Ecole Nationale de l'Administration, where the top civil servants are groomed. Grew up partly in Germany (where his father was headmaster of a lycée) and worked for French nuclear company Areva. He's murdered two right-wing deputies - in fiction, that is; he writes thrillers.

He's seen as centre-right, which of course is further to the right than it was in my day. His mentor is Alain Juppé, former lefty turned righty. Like Macron, he wants to scrap France's 35-hour week, which seems a bit stupid to me, seeing as productivity is high in France, as is work-life balance… he himself likes to take a snooze on the floor of his office, which is fair enough as he leaps up early in the morning three times a week for boxing practice. Again like Macron, he wants to magically solve unemployment by sacking 200,000 civil servants #DOESNOTCOMPUTEDOESNOTCOMPUTE