Are you all still so gullible?

[123everton]

All you people who praised Sarkozy for banning the burkha, do you not see where it's heading?
http://www.irishexami...ld/kfcwidmhgbmh/rss2/
Ask yourself why it is that in a country like France where women earn much less than men, where the economy is running badly, where accusations of police brutality (killings) against the poor and the immigrant, where the government itself is under investigation for fraud it decides to attack another unpopular minority?
Not as a distraction, surely?
I wonder who'll be next?
My money's on the trade unionists.

[fredpuli47]

Well, we'll see what scale of public protest there is. France has a long tradition of protest marches and demonstrations on a grand scale, which the government of the day has, equally traditionally, paid attention to (unlike, in general, Britain's governments).Sarkozy must be betting on no such protests.

At a purely practical level it is nonsensical, though possibly well-intentioned and not mere vote-getting. The problem is not the women who'll get fined but the men who have persuaded or compelled them to wear the burqa. If the women don't pay what will the French do? Imprison them? Sarkozy seems fond of the impractical. His deporting Romas to Bucharest seems to be one example. How is he going to stop the citizens of another EU state, as these prima facie are, coming straight back to France?

As to police brutality, it's not as bad as it was 40 years ago when I first lived there (some consolation that is!)

[123everton]

France nearly voted in Jean Marie Le Penn a few years ago, it's electorate is veering over to the hard right, Sarkozy can see this so is simply trying to steal votes off the Fronte Nationale.
As for it's final destination, it's merely a journey of attacking unpopular minorities that will result in the end as an attack on the poor and the vulnerable.
It'll start with pensions reform.

[modeller]

The only thing that is surprising is why he didn't send them here direct as that is where most of them will end up and we will pay for all their real and imaginary children left behind .

[R1Geezer]

well lets hope they start on the trade unionists, J Arthurs they are, ruination of any economy.

[R1Geezer]

I don't often praise the French but good on them, they have decided that they can no longer stomach all the lefty trendy cobblers.

[rov1200]

My worry is that having been expelled from France they will decide to come to Britain instead. I have heard mutterings that they were told to do just that.

As they are allowed by EU law to travel about Europe then how are we expected to cope with them? In Peterborough they are sleeping rough in the middle of roundabouts. A firm hand is the only answer and Sarkozy has shown how to do it.

[joeluke]

The frogs have the right idea, about time we followed their lead and got tough instead of being the soft touch we are

[123everton]

Well so far the answer appears to be yes.
You don't get it do you, they pick on the small. the weak, the poor and the unpopular, and all you seals will clap along, and then they'll do something to you, and there'll be noone left.
You talk about trade unioinsts ruining the economy, ahem, it's the CEOs ofthe banks that have screwed up the economy, not a lefty amongst them.
Look at French protestors, the truck drivers force blockades because of rising fuel prices, none of you would support such behaviour here, added to that, they're mostly self employed.
Look at French farmers (self employed), they force blockades because of falling prices, now look at our farmers, they spread milk over fields because it costs them more to sell it to the supermarkets, they're being underpaid for beef now, it's not the trade unionists who are causing the trouble, it's the immigrants either.
But they'll get the blame.

[123everton]

I don't know how you feel about fuel protests, but when they happened here there was widespread support, it's a very common refrain that the French don't put up with the things we do.
Your quote - “You talk about trade unionists ruining the economy...”.

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(14:55 on Sat 04/Sep/10) well lets hope they start on the trade unionists, J Arthurs they are, ruination of any economy.
Birdie, you say you "can see where France is going" clearly you don't want it to stop just yet.
So you bang the drum for women's rights (good for you) completely overlooking the HUGE disparity in in the pay men and women recieve, if Sarkozy cared about inequality surely he'd seek to remedy this now?
Maybe female poverty is part of French expression, I doubt it, or maybe willing dupes and pawns like you will read the headlines and miss the sub-text.

[Mobiliser]

birdie, I think you are taking it a bit personnal, I read into as everton giving answers to the other posters on here, not aimed at your comments as such.

everton, I have to agree with you on most of the points you raise!

[jno]

"the disparity of pay between French male and female employees (if any exists)"

It does: women in France have to work 79 days a year more to earn the same as men.

Pretty huge, so 123everton knows what he's talking about.

[tamborine]

CNN tonite - beware !

http://edition.cnn.co...di.cnn?iref=allsearch

[jno]

http://ec.europa.eu/s...258&furtherEvents=yes

took 3 seconds to find that

[123everton]

I haven't said France is heading towards Nazism, although if any of you picked up the loose reference to a Nazi era poem, then kudos to you (it can be easily reinterpreted as a warning for all intrusive regimes), France however is heading for a hard right nationalist government.
The burkha was/is just the thin end of the wedge, because if equality was the issue the matter of far greater importance and far greater relevance is the pay for all women in France.
Le Penn I imagine will espouse the line that the reason pay is so low is because of all these immigrants flooding in and working for less, and yet still thousands of people will swallow this guff hook line and sinker.