Your first question tries to put words in my mouth as usual - I have never stated that I despise any British institution on this forum, it's not a word I use much. I beleive British justice to be hand in glove with dishonest war monger politicians:
the French model represents a dramatic improvement over the UK.
Yup
You clearly have some admiration (not administration!!) for Le Pen Ed
No I don't, it's a question of degrees of contempt, no admiration in sight.
Your quote about national rally is factually correct and explains my contempt for the party, what Blair did far worse and deserves greater contempt.
You've completely derailed a thread with your Edukator hate, Ernie. Look at the top of the page and my post which I ran past my Science Po and Humbolt educated son before posting. It's factual and bland. You have a personal vendetta which amounts to bullying and use any excuse to pick a virtual fight. You then use a series of underhand tactics I've outlined before. I guessed you'd do exactly what you've done before I even pressed return on that post up there.
Your first question tries to put words in my mouth as usual
Erm, I can't be 'putting words in your mouth' by asking a question, obviously.
You’ve completely derailed a thread with your Edukator hate, Ernie.
You have a personal vendetta which amounts to bullying and use any excuse to pick a virtual fight. You then use a series of underhand tactics I’ve outlined before.
This what you always eventually do Ed, get into a personal rant about me and how I bully you and how mean I am to you.
This thread is about the protests in France against the policies of Emmanuel Macron. Frogstomp quite reasonably points out that Macron has forced through a policy without a democratic vote.
Clover, also quite reasonably, points out people voted Macron to ensure Le Pen didn’t get in and that he doesn’t really have a mandate for his manifesto and the parliamentary elections completed that picture.
You then come along and derail the thread by banging on about bad the political and judicial systems are in the UK, and rant about Tony Blair being worse than a fascist. Somehow the King of England also gets a mention with regards to being worse than a fascist - on a thread discussing protests in France!
You end up, without a hint of irony, accusing me of derailing the thread, launching a personal attack on me, and then complaining bitterly that I am mean to you.
Get a grip ffs.
People can read what I'm typing, Ernie, they really don't need you to distort it. The thread is yours now, use it wisely.
People can read what I’m typing, Ernie
Yup, same old bollocks, different target.
If it's not Ernie it's me. If it's not me it's Molgrips, if it's not him it's someone else.
Word for word, same shite every time.
You're fooling nobody.
Now either contribute something useful to the thread or shut up until you can. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Well the society with the machines can have the people work as well and achieve an even higher standard of living, which makes the ones without jealous and aspire to have the higher standard too.
Been the same ever since the Industrial revolution.
bollocks to that! Bring on the robot/AI revolution and I’ll quit work with basic needs met. More time to do fun stuff or volunteering. Life’s way too short for working until you’re too old and knackered to enjoy what’s left of it.
Seconded, when machines can produce most of the stuff we use now, work should be optional. (Reading Ian M Banks should be compulsory...)
As for the earlier debate about where we get the money for a bigger welfare state in order to support those made redundant by automation, I think the only long-term solution is national, publical, or communal ownership means of (automated) production
I don’t think either system is perfect and the UK is increasingly authoritarian. One of my reasons for leaving the UK was the dramatic worsening of rights for dual nationals - basically your UK passport can be revoked if you have the right to another.
Le Pen was busy with her France for the French messages at the election. She’s toned down on Frexit but was gearing up on restricting freedom of movement. That would have put me in a very precarious position.
So choice was actual awful UK versus the hovering spectre of awful. The only political movement I’m currently passionate about is electoral reform.
Reforming the all powerful presidency is a good idea. France has a good track record for change and not sticking to stuff that is past its use-by.