Nicolas Sarkozy, the Gaullist candidate emerging as the front-runner in the French presidential election, brought his campaign to Britain on Tuesday with a passionate speech in praise of expatriate workers, and a plea for them to come home and transform France. how much is he ready to pay me?
Before a packed audience at London’s Old Billingsgate market, he dared to claim the UK capital as “one of the greatest French cities”, and wooed his audience with a tribute to all those French men and women through the centuries who had left their country to make their fortunes abroad. keep coming, I like this!
Citing Voltaire, Descartes, Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo, who fled into exile to seek greater freedom, he even linked to London the name of Napoleon, who once contemplated exile in the land of his greatest adversary. that sounds like me
The first mass rally of a French presidential candidate in Britain was a remarkable tribute to the soaring number of French workers in the country, estimated at between 200,000 and 300,000, many of whom might be voters in the forthcoming elections. it's even worse than I thought.
“France is not just a country that exists inside its own borders,” he said. “France is an ideal and not just a territory, France exists anywhere in the world where there are French people.” vive la bullshit
It was an extraordinary performance, in which Mr Sarkozy managed to link the dynamism and energy of French exiles to the transformation he is trying to promote in the home country.
He admitted far too many had left their homes because of an atmosphere that discouraged entrepreneurship. “They leave because they don’t have diplomas, and no one wants to give them a chance,” he said. “They leave because they are risk-takers, and risk is a bad word.” totally wrong, he is mixing up between the UK and the US, they're not the same type of expats! the VAST majority of French workers in the UK is in the finance field, and full of diplomas. the entrepreneurs with no diplomas go to the US. he could have at least studied his case!
At the same time he called on them to come home, and revive the French economy and society. “To every exile who is unhappy about what is happening in France, and unhappy about leaving, I say: ‘Come home’,” he declared. “Come home, because together we will make France a great country where everything will be possible, where fathers won’t fear for the future of their children, and where everyone will be able to make their plans come true, and be responsible for their own destiny.” I want to be able to bullshit like this as well!
He spoke at the end of a day when he met Tony Blair, UK prime minister, for lunch, and visited a London job centre, and the Cabinet war rooms in Whitehall.
The only slight embarrassment was an insistence from Downing Street that Mr Sarkozy was being welcomed as an official visitor – in his capacity as interior minister – while the French embassy said he was merely a presidential candidate. But a spokesman for Mr Blair sought to make amends. “If Ségolène Royal (Mr Sarkozy’s Socialist rival) wants to come to London and meet the prime minister, I am sure the prime minister would be happy to meet her,” he said. what the fuck? and French taxpayers are paying for this useless trip.. even the politicians themselves don't know why the fuck they're there.
