Comments on: The Once and Future Royal http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/blog/franceprofonde/the-once-and-future-royal/ Tim King on French politics Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:57:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Kirin http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/blog/franceprofonde/the-once-and-future-royal/#comment-2900 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:15:54 +0000 http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/blog/franceprofonde/the-once-and-future-royal/#comment-2900 Tim - I am curious how you think Royal's declaration in favour of Turkish entry into the EU will play out. Is it a bold example of a unique policy stance based on her own beliefs and thinking despite conventional political logic? Or does it reveal that she is as out of touch with "la France Profonde" as every other French politician? Tim - I am curious how you think Royal’s declaration in favour of Turkish entry into the EU will play out. Is it a bold example of a unique policy stance based on her own beliefs and thinking despite conventional political logic? Or does it reveal that she is as out of touch with “la France Profonde” as every other French politician?

]]> by: Mira http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/blog/franceprofonde/the-once-and-future-royal/#comment-2488 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:25:25 +0000 http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/blog/franceprofonde/the-once-and-future-royal/#comment-2488 There is r-evolution in the air - not only in France. The so called elites everywhere in Europe have created a stagnation which is becoming unbearable and actually destructive to all our future. All their promises of peace and wealth for everyone are more and more dissolving... If we are not able to evolve accepting and embracing new ideas and fresh paradigms based on fundamental law - justice - truth, Europe as a whole is going to fail miserably. There is r-evolution in the air - not only in France. The so called elites everywhere in Europe have created a stagnation which is becoming unbearable and actually destructive to all our future. All their promises of peace and wealth for everyone are more and more dissolving…

If we are not able to evolve accepting and embracing new ideas and fresh paradigms based on fundamental law - justice - truth, Europe as a whole is going to fail miserably.

]]> by: Tim Todhunter http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/blog/franceprofonde/the-once-and-future-royal/#comment-2427 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:42:04 +0000 http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/blog/franceprofonde/the-once-and-future-royal/#comment-2427 This narrative of the Royal campaign sounds a great deal like a rerun of George McGovern's campaign for the US presidency in 1972. McGovern, as described by Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, won the Democratic primary as an outsider with a lot of grassroots support but then lost his focus by attempting to reach out to the party elephants. It will be interesting to see whether Sego can manage to push a non-establishment programme and hold her Socialist party establisment backing together. It didn't work for McGovern: he only managed to carry one state against Nixon. This narrative of the Royal campaign sounds a great deal like a rerun of George McGovern’s campaign for the US presidency in 1972. McGovern, as described by Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, won the Democratic primary as an outsider with a lot of grassroots support but then lost his focus by attempting to reach out to the party elephants. It will be interesting to see whether Sego can manage to push a non-establishment programme and hold her Socialist party establisment backing together. It didn’t work for McGovern: he only managed to carry one state against Nixon.

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