Everybody in the press disagrees with me, except that they have their facts (also found in the press, but never put together with the "common wisdom" on France to notice the blatant contradictions) all wrong.

I gave you facts - lots of them, from unimpeachable sources. Which ones exactly do you contest, please? Otherwise you're just repeating talking points or anectodes - as are the rightwing ideologues of the Torygraph.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes