SwedishMatt: oooh, the possibility of some statistics and suggestion of google. You’re up to 3/10 now.
Advice: stop posting in a thread by all means. Announce you are fed up with it by all means. But leaving with a criticism of a whole education system as your last sentence is either trolling, or a big sign that you don’t really want to leave the thread at all.
SwedishMatt, do you know the range of educational backgrounds (and I am talking ‘eras’, academic levels and indeed countries here 😉 ) of the posters on this thread?
zulu, the FN do pretty well on those 25 points. About 12 more than any other major politial force either side of the channel as far as I can see. ‘Nazi’ has for me lost its meaning a little because of its overuse in non-political ways. I think the real issue with the FN being socialist/left wing or not is that of citizenship. A socialist with no other agendas will define citizenship in rather different terms to a National Socialist, FN or indeed BNP. In fact despite only one the word difference in their names, I don’t see the SNP legislating against the opportunities and chances of English and Irish people in the way that the BNP would do for supposedly ‘non-brits’, same goes for plaid cymru of course. It is a valid argument that the left-leaning elements (as distinct from the interventionist ones if we are talking two axes which of course we should be) of the FN policy are there first and foremost to win the votes of disaffected white french people, and a vehicle to power rather than where their values and wishes lie.
I am leaving the thread to go to work now btw. Happy arguing 😀 .