Explain what you mean by "out of tune left". Please provide examples, and perhaps some supporting evidence.

As for your reference to Royal reverting to an imagined "Jospinism" you apparently disdain (despite the fact that the only period of growth, unemployment reduction and income gains in the past two decades was under his government...) I'm wondering how you would make this comment in light of your comment that Bayrou is some antruistic rallier of all French, citing as you do the fact he would name DSK as PM.

DSK is, for all intents and purposes, at the core of Jospinism.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill