French Legislative Election 2017

[heatcharger]

A flawless, beautiful mandate. I feel bad for Hamon and PS, but they were due for a wipeout when their president had a single-digit approval rating.

Perhaps in the not too distant future Corbyn can become PM, f**k everything up and alienate everyone, and then an upstart liberal party without the recent baggage of the LibDems can dominate everything like EM has. One can dream.

[heatcharger]

Get the f**k out of this thread you dumbass.

Lol, sorry, but I really would like to see EM's success replicated elsewhere, particularly in the UK. Plus, Corbyn really could become PM soon enough, and I think it'd be a disaster.

"Flawless, beautiful" to a tyranny-of-the-centre fault.  That is, boring as f**k.  The only un-boring thing being the plethora of first-round knockouts for sitting parliamentarians (incl. Hamon).

Maybe you do, but I don't mind politics being boring at all.

[heatcharger]

Large absention rates from Le Pen and Mélenchon supporters:

The thing is, Britain was led by Flawless Beautiful Centrists from 1997-2007 and from 2010-2016. In case you hadn't noticed, on both occasions, it ended in a complete disaster.

I'm not excusing Blair, and especially not Cameron. The former got caught up in unnecessary interventions, particularly in Iraq, while the latter put all his eggs into the Brexit basket, and then proceeded to run an inane campaign that would lead to his exit. But neither of their downfalls were because of their lack of ability to govern, at least domestically. If Macron can deliver on the necessary reforms needed to make France more economically competitive without falling into huge landmines like those two did, it'll be a success. I just want that to happen in the UK as well.

Heatcharger reminds me of the sort of person who prefers to do *all* of his French, uh, travel and sightseeing by "flawless, beautiful" autoroutes and TGV; and the more of those, the better...

Haha, I've never been outside of Paris though...