Both Sarkozy and Royal have stomped on LePen. As you said the fight is between the Margaret Thatcher/Sarkozy with a gun against the traditional Marianne/Royal. The cartoon is what has happened in the first round

Perhaps its an effort to explain the French result to those who no longer actually read the newspaper.

Le Pen is a quasi-Hilter statue that has been pulled down, Royal is that french trollop with the flag, and Sarkozy makes an ugly version of Thatcher.

Clearly, you are supposed to be barracking for Royal and congratulating yourself on not living in France.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

Yeah, I got that it was Royal as Marianne and Sarkozy as Thatcher, but I still don't entirely get what it's trying to say.  They've vanquished Le Pen?  Is that it?

I dunno, seems kinda lame.  I was hoping I was missing some deeper meaning or cultural reference, but apparently not.