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Europe
France's president-elect raps Britain
2012-05-09
[Iran Press TV] La Belle France's President-elect Francois Hollande
...the impending Socialist president of La Belle France...
 has launched a scathing attack on the British government saying Britannia "is indifferent to the fate of the euro area".

La Belle France's Socialist leader said Britannia is only obsessed with the protection of the interests of the City of London, reported The Mail

"The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe," said Hollande.

Hollande is an advocate of an EU-wide transaction tax on financial deals and a fresh push for tax harmonization in Europe, to which Britannia is opposed.

After Hollande's victory over Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
 on Sunday night, British Prime Minister David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
 called him and said he looked forward to "building on the very close relationship that already exists between the UK and La Belle France".

However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
 Hollande has a closer relationship with opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband as they held high-level talks when he visited London in February.

Hollande believes that a shift in focus away from austerity to growth could be a way towards pain-free economic growth for La Belle France and the eurozone saying "austerity can no longer be the only option". Nevertheless, the British press have accused him of creating "cruel illusion".
Posted by:Fred

#8  NS, would that we could. I'm afraid that the toy boy and the rest of his ilk are firmly embedded in the EU elite and are just playing their role. Things haven't gone exactly as planned or Blair, Brown or Cameron would already have the UK in the Euro.

Anything Cameron says seems to be nothing but blue smoke or stupidity. He, as far as I can see, has no desire to move the slightest bit away from the EU. There will come a time when the EU tells the UK to $#!t or get off the pot on the Euro and after much huffing and puffing Cameron would bend right over.
Posted by: AlanC   2012-05-09 14:01  

#7  It is too bad 0 is such an Anglophobe. Now is the time to be tying them closer to the Anglosphere.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2012-05-09 12:36  

#6  The only recorded instance in history of a rat swimming towards a sinking ship.
Churchill
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-05-09 12:30  

#5  tax harmonisation

WTF? So the Brits have more sense than to get themselves entangled in Europe's fiscal malfeasance. C'est dommage.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-05-09 11:28  

#4  The Brits were smart not to go Euro. For that, they will not be forgiven.
Posted by: Spot   2012-05-09 09:25  

#3  You can have austerity and trade, or growth and no trade (or at least much reduced trade).
Posted by: phil_b   2012-05-09 08:37  

#2  Extortion cartel?

FOAD.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-05-09 05:53  

#1  tax harmonisation

YJCMTSU.
Posted by: no mo uro   2012-05-09 05:51  

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