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Post by tom on Jun 10, 2024 6:28:17 GMT
Are you and Chrissie qualified to vote in tne up coming French general elections?
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Post by anglais on Jun 10, 2024 7:38:18 GMT
Hello Tom,
No we cannot vote. If I could we would both have voted for Macron's party yesterday, who is doing his best to drag France into the 21st Century. But the French do not want to be dragged, or just want change. The French are super political and will oppose change even if its in their interest. Something like 50% of French Social and Economic laws were passed in Napoleonic times and are just not relevant in these times.
Our department Aveyron came down firmly in support of Marine Le Pen's neo Nazi's as did pretty much most of the country although 49% of the Aveyronnaise didn't bother to vote.
We cannot vote in the General Election either.
I am more interested in the UK elections and looking forward to seeing Rishi getting a good duffing. We have not registered to vote, but to be honest they are all pretty much unelectable. Lord Buckethead or whatever he calls himself looks the most plausible.
I do have something of a soft spot for Rachel Reeves though, but thats purely sexual and has nothing to do with politics.
Has Carole given up all her political work now?
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Post by tom on Jun 10, 2024 7:56:51 GMT
Is your not being able to vote down to the French authorities not letting none nationals vote or you not registering.
Carol gave up politics when the labour party crapped on her, fixing against her standing as councilor. They have since appologised to her, saying that they made a mistake, but quite rightly, she gave them the archers reply. They, we think, thought that she was not political enough, more community minded than they wanted.
In the following election, she came third in the count, via people scrubbing out the name of the official labour candidate and writing in Carols name...she was told this by one of the vote counters, who is a close friend.
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Post by anglais on Jun 10, 2024 8:06:20 GMT
We could vote if we took on French citizenship. But to do that you have to take verbal and written French language exams and an exam in French Social and Economic History.
We have 10 year residency cards without the hassle as we were over 60 and with 10 years of living here and thats good enough for us. And we still have UK citizenship should Marine Le Pen chuck all the foreigners out of the country.
I remember how disgracefully Carol was treated and don't blame her. But its a shame the ward has lost a deeply committed councillor.
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Post by tom on Jun 10, 2024 8:40:37 GMT
Anglais...If I got on my soap box about the corruption in the Labour party in Sandwell, I could very easily get banned from this group on the grounds of boring the sh1t out of you kind folks.
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Post by tom on Jun 10, 2024 9:14:05 GMT
This make amusing reading, if you have a spare year or two. thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/P.S. I know personally most of the "characters" he mentioned and much of what he says is very close to the mark, but some are far off...possibly due to his personal dislike of many.
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Post by anglais on Jun 11, 2024 4:29:02 GMT
Hello Tom,
It seems to me that Carol is best out of it. No doubt the author has an axe to grind with just about everyone.
But really is it any different to what goes on in councils of all colours and persuasions throughout the breadth of the land?
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Post by tom on Jun 11, 2024 7:38:50 GMT
Hello Tom, It seems to me that Carol is best out of it. No doubt the author has an axe to grind with just about everyone. But really is it any different to what goes on in councils of all colours and persuasions throughout the breadth of the land? Not all councils get put into Westminster control. Though yes. local councils have a sometimes justified reputation..." just greasing the wheels"
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