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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 7. May | 63 comments (63 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

His socialist friends "do not want to" see the former British prime minister, considered as too Eurosceptic, become head of the EU.

Surely no self-respecting socialist be a friend of that neocon toerag.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 06:28:18 AM EST
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I've been wondering (4.00 / 2)

if the efforts to repeatedly paint Brown and, to an increasing extent, Blair, as leftist guys is not a way to shift the debate slowly, as the crisis bites, in order to be able to blame them for it - for not doing enough "reform" (hobbled as they were, of course, by an unreconstructed party, and by their - wrongful - residual lefty instincts.

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

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 08:42:29 AM EST
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Re: I've been wondering (none / 0)

Yes, exactly. Brown is now being blamed for all the problems that his neoliberal approach has introduced - but he's being blamed as a tax-and-spend socialist, not as a neoliberal.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 09:16:24 AM EST
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Re: I've been wondering (none / 0)

I don't know. Ségolène Royal was trying to portray herself as the French Tony Blair, surely that was not in order to catch the blame for the things to come.

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 09:25:27 AM EST
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She was NOT trying to do that (none / 0)

She was described as doing so by media like the FT, despite inconvenient facts like her criticism of the 35-hour week for being too favorable to business against workers or her praise of him for running economic policies that were more to the left than his discourse.

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

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 10:05:23 AM EST
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Re: She was NOT trying to do that (none / 0)

Well, I don't read the FT. I just heard her during the campaign and to me she was trying to capture the image of Blair. I remember her saying that the success of the UK under Blair was proof that leftist policies worked.

I'm not sure I understand your "inconvenient facts", by the way. How could her praising Blair be an inconvenient fact for the theory that Royal would portray herself as the French Blair?

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 10:40:24 AM EST
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