What annoys me is connecting Bliar and Sarkozy with 'reforms' without putting the word "reforms" in scare quotes. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
All part of the narrative that casts free-marketers as the forces of progress and the left as died-in-the-wool conservatives. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind