[kreuzberger]

I understood the French government to actually be trolling. "Leave it, Manny. He ain't werf it...", comment ça se dit.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Playing the long game, waiting for the adults to come back.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Youngian]

Vote for my brand of antisemitism because I’m not a Jew. Haven’t forgotten Corbyn invited this prick to conference. Very worrying turn of events in France. Its unsurprising Sadiq Khan and Ann Hildago are thick, they’re the nearest politicians to each other who haven’t lost their fucking minds.

[The Weeping Angel]

Vote for my brand of antisemitism because I’m not a Jew. Haven’t forgotten Corbyn invited this prick to conference. Very worrying turn of events in France. Its unsurprising Sadiq Khan and Ann Hildago are thick, they’re the nearest politicians to each other who haven’t lost their fucking minds.

I remember he was being touted as a left-wing alternative to Macron by the New Statesman amongst others. Say what you like about Labour but at least they're not as crap as the (PS) have been.

[Youngian]

PS never recovered from Hollande’s moribund presidency. An accidental beneficiary of Dominique Strauss-Khan’s wandering hands.

[Youngian]

Classy touch from the French embassy: Don't worry Britain, we can wait until the grown-ups are back

[kreuzberger]

... nous trollons
Vous trollez...

[The Weeping Angel]

When you look at some of the candidates running for President of France I'm not sure how grown up they're as a country.

[Youngian]

When you look at some of the candidates running for President of France I'm not sure how grown up they're as a country.

Made that point on this page. But hopefully "the deep state" will outlast Johnson, Le Penn and Zemmour

[The Weeping Angel]

When you look at some of the candidates running for President of France I'm not sure how grown up they're as a country.

Made that point on this page. But hopefully "the deep state" will outlast Johnson, Le Penn and Zemmour

Hopefully it will.

[mattomac]

With Zemmour running you’d the left would be stirring it up a bit.

I think it says a lot that they’ve got no closer. Le Pen could be in trouble if Zemmour runs on an independent slate.

Got to be thinking turnout might be low, can’t see Macron losing mind unless the centre right sneak on because of Zemmour.

[Nigredo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59428311

Macron got fed up and only wants to speak to grown ups now.

[Youngian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59428311

Macron got fed up and only wants to speak to grown ups now.

Johnson got the reaction he desired: 'Its all their fault, France won't even talk to us about our reasonable proposals to stop kids drowning.'

[Andy McDandy]

Smart French people don't vote in our elections. Thick Brits do.

And as ever, Adlai Stevenson's comments on achieving a majority apply.

[The Weeping Angel]

A damning expose of policing in France.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/ ... ris-police

Gendrot’s account of his time on the force, Flic, made waves in France last year and is now available in English, thanks to Frank Wynne’s tidy translation. It portrays a working culture in which racism and misogyny are rife and police regularly exceed their powers with impunity. “Officers dealing with members of the public, he writes, “are routinely overfamiliar, inappropriate, aggressive in their words and actions, and insulting, and they unlawfully confiscate merchandise … from those [unlicensed street hawkers] issued with fines.”

In one particularly disturbing incident, an officer beats up an innocent teenager for talking back. The boy, of African heritage, is bundled into a police van and repeatedly punched; Gendrot watches as his colleague goes “completely berserk, uses his elbow to pin the boy’s chest so he can lay into him … like a man possessed”. When the victim later files a complaint, triggering an internal investigation, several officers give false testimony in support of their co-worker, who is cleared of wrongdoing. Gendrot wonders: “How can he ever trust the police again after this incident?”

[Abernathy]

Disturbing. Corruption in the French police force would appear to be a long term problem, as hilariously illustrated in Ripoux contre Ripoux

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100496/

[Malcolm Armsteen]

To explain, 'ripoux' is backslang for 'pourri' - rotten or corrupted.

I think the original
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088002/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
is a bit better, fresher perhaps.

In those days corrupt cops could be treated sympathetically.

See also
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083611/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
which stars the impeccable Nathalie Baye and Phillippe Léotard.

[Abernathy]

To explain, 'ripoux' is backslang for 'pourri' - rotten or corrupted.

I think the original
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088002/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
is a bit better, fresher perhaps.

Ahh, yes, that’s the one I had in mind. Definitely better. Noiret is just brilliant in that fillum (as he always was) .

[Malcolm Armsteen]

A great actor, much under-rated in the Anglosphere.