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By Malcolm Armsteen
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Playing the long game, waiting for the adults to come back.
By Youngian
#12836
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.
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By The Weeping Angel
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Youngian wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 8:00 pm 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.
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By The Weeping Angel
#12866
Youngian wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:16 pm
The Weeping Angel wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:45 pm 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.
By mattomac
#12892
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.
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By The Weeping Angel
#17222
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?”
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By Malcolm Armsteen
#17234
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.
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By Abernathy
#17241
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:32 pm 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) .
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By Malcolm Armsteen
#17244
A great actor, much under-rated in the Anglosphere.
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