18 janvier 2007

Amusement day 2

The amusement continues but unfortunately for those with a sweet spot for Ségo, it is at her expense or to be precise her partner’s. Arnaud Montebourg is a name that we hear a lot about. I’m not sure why. He is an aristo looking guy who speaks well but doesn’t say much. He founded, with some friends a ‘nouveau parti socialist’. It could have been a French type New Labour, except it seemed rather too left to fill that role. The only clear thing that Montebourg seemed to consistently propose was a sixth république with the president as an arbitrator and the prime minister more important than today.

Anyway, early on he decided to support Ségo and she, unwisely, appointed him as her porte parole. He is the sort of guy that,in my opinion is batting for himself and no one else. So last night when asked what Ségo’s principal fault was he said, on the television, that the only thing wrong with Ségo was her partner (ie Hollande). He immediately said it was a joke, but the only one’s laughing are the bande à sarko. Ségo has decided to suspend him a month as a punishment. Several people have made the connection between the punishment and the school marmly attitude of ségo, which seems pretty fair. The Sarko’s amidst their mirth came up with the comment that, if after his detention he makes another mistake, he’ll be off to military boot camp. (a ségo proposition for juvenile delinquents)

So it’s tough days for ségo, the latest two opinion polls have showed her trailing sarko in the second round by two points, whereas before she has been ahead by about the same amount. We’ll see what she is made of.

Las night ségo was in Randall’s FN country down in Toulon. Apparently the first time that a socialist presidential candidate has ventured down there since François Mitterand in 1981. Sarko was at Saclay promising 4 billion euros for research. Saclay is the centre for research into nuclear energy for France. It is the place where Pierre and Marie Curie had a farm in which they did their research. The barn is still there.

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