Something The Left Can Learn From The Right.

[youngmafbog]

How to maintain dignity and move on after you loose an election, Hilary take note, you dont have to sulk for months after.

And why aren't the right out protesting at the result like the left do when they dont get their own way?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4483200/Far-right-Marine-Le-Pen-dances-YMCA-Paris.html

[ToraToraTora]

well I definitely think the remainiacs should take note. The result of democracy has been accepted. No running about like headless chickens and protesting, trying to overturn the result or rerunning it. Gina Miller, take note!

[ToraToraTora]

"am I bovvered"! http://news.sky.com/video/le-pen-dances-away-election-defeat-10868875

[anotheoldgit]

All good points, waits in anticipation for the Left to comment.

[Mamyalynne]

Good for her, I particularly liked her twirling to YMCA.

Dancing is great.

[andy-hughes]

Let's hope Jeremy can cut a rug then!

[New Judge]

"The result of democracy has been accepted."

Quite true. Whether the situation would have been quite the same had Ms Le Pen been elected is arguable. I have in mind that the riot police patrolling the Champs Elysees may have been running low on tear gas rounds by now.

[Jackdaw33]

Can't argue with that, NJ.

[Bazile]

I don't think she really believed that she was going to win ; so the loss is easy to accept

[ichkeria]

It won't stop AB's right wingers having a good moan about something though.
I daresay it'll come down to a moan about no "lefties" moaning about them moaning about the fact that the "right" are better losers than the "left"!
Wasn't Cameron whistling after his resignation speech? I know he's not a "leftie" but maybe that it his version of it.
When you are tanked by a 30% margin dancing to the Village People might be the only thing for it.
;-)

Nice to see all those Francophile mail readers hailing their heroine in the comments.
I did like:
"She did the fox trot, the two step and the goose step" - those lefties, eh :-)

[ichkeria]

No she knew she wasn't going to win, that is true.
I wonder what scale was:
20-30% of the vote she'd have to dance to the Birdie Song
30-40% the Village People
Anything more and she'd have been up doing karaoke
So not a bad result, all told, for all concerned

[Jackdaw33]

...and there's me thinking that sour grapes were the exclusive priority of TTT.

[hereIam]

Aww sorry she lost.

[sp1814]

I think that the reason why there are far fewer protests from 'the Right' is because left wing politics is far more attractive to young people.

And young people love a good old protest.

This changes as people get older (bad paraphrase coming): "If you're a conservative when you're young, you have no heart, if you're a liberal when you're old, you have no brain".

I think this is what we're seeing. Those on the Right will no doubt take to the street at some point. What's the French version of the BNP and EDL again? I forget their name.

Anyway - they're always up for a bit of aggro...especially when the football season starts.

[Guilbert53]

>>>after you loose an election

Note LOOSE and LOSE are two totally different words.

LOOSE is the opposite of tight ("these trousers are LOOSE", it rhymes with NOOSE)

LOSE is the opposite of WIN ("we will lose the election", it rhymes with NEWS)

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814
/// I think that the reason why there are far fewer protests from 'the Right' is because left wing politics is far more attractive to young people. ///

Since you have over generalised, please allow me to do so, could it be because the young are immature, gullible and easily led?

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //Since you have over generalised, please allow me to do so, could it be because the young are immature, gullible and easily led? //

Absolutely it could.

The tragedy for the current labour party in general, and its leaders in particular, shows that that growth and maturity - in a physical sense at least - has not led to any improvement in those areas!

[Old_Geezer]

Why would they protest ? They didn't expect to win. But see it as an advance and a springboard for the next election.

[Khandro]

Good point!

[ichkeria]

"They didn't expect to win. But see it as an advance and a springboard for the next election. "

Le Pen has indicated that she may try to "change" the FN into a much more mainstream party - it may be that this election has sounded the death knell of the party in its current form, which would be no bad thing.
And she thinks she sees a vacancy perhaps, but I am not so sure. The only reason the republicans didn't figure in the run off was almost certainly because their candidate was mired in scandal. They are still very strong and will do well in the elections. As will En Marche. I think the FN currently have one seat and tho that is bound to rise it's unlikely to be by a significant amount.

[jno]

I see the leave.eu group set up by Farage has announced that France has "rolled over like they did in 1940".

A lesson in good losing for us all!