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Something about this map of France looks familiar for some reason ...
(Via Hall Greenland)
The oui vote in predominantly rural Brittany is different to familiar maps. Moderate nationalists in distinctive regions often like Brussels over a local centralising state, but it’s strange that Brittany was so uniform and so unlike la France profonde. It would be the same elite they were resisting (or less appealingly the same Anglo-Saxon plot).
How long till the streets of Paris run red with the modern aristocracy…. again?
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 05 30 at 10:59 AM • permalinkThere were `yes’ campaigners who took it up to that mentality and argued for economic reform, and backers of the constitution outside France on the grounds that only the minimal bludgeon of remembering the EU’s economic origins would knock some sense into the French. I imagine that some of the crowds of youths seen on TV celebrating the no want root and branch reform of the EU. Maybe it could be a common market of participating nations, with only such common legislation as to achieve that: as the UK signed up to, and as is all that new Europe wants.
The result wasn’t so close at the Karl Marx Primary School in Bobigny, Paris.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2005 05 30 at 11:33 AM • permalinkAging Gamer — That blood is thinner stuff, these days. Pale pink’s the best you can hope for.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 30 at 01:20 PM • permalinkIt depends what you mean by wrong reasons. As far as I can see, the left in France and the right in Britain have exactly the same view of EU and voted (or would vote) in exactly the same way. Neither conservatives in GB or socialists in France want to be dictated to by an outside power. They want the future of their countries to be decided by the people of their own countries, not an unelected elite in Brussels.
Nah, it was just another Karl Rove plot.
Not officially.
By the way, if anyone needs me I’m in Brittany loading up the Diebold voting machines. Very lovely countryside. Being a loyal yet evil minion of the “death cult called neoconservatism” (we have an official name but I’m not allowed to share it with you) does have its advantages. Such as travelling.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 30 at 04:35 PM • permalinkVery interesting map.
Strongest yes in Paris and the affluent western Greater Paris area, as well as around Strasbourg and near Geneva. The yes in Brittany is interesting. I can’t see any compelling reason why the Bretons would vote differently from any other region.
Interestingly, some of the strongest no votes are in areas that border other countries: the north near Belgium and the south near Spain.
But surely the Guardian ran a letter-writing campaign to the key French departements?
Actually no. In our week neocon teleconference, I recommended this to Karl Rove, as a inducement to piss off the French and make them vote NO. I suggested we use The Independent this time, so as to avoid anyone seeing a neocon conspiracy as work. I was just sure it was a brilliant idea, enough to raise my star in the death cult.
Lord Rove said no. It would not necessary. Because they’re French. Just that. They’re French. As if that’s a reason.
Apparently it was.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 30 at 09:57 PM • permalinkAre you kidding? Do you think they think about me when they’re sending out directives? Or bulletins? Or analyses? Or walking points? Or the joke of the day? NO.
Oh, but need a Russian lake moved in one stinking day and who do they think of? Oh sure, they know my phone number then. And my fax number. And my email address. Oh yeah, they know me then.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 30 at 10:36 PM • permalinkWell, I’m not getting my hopes up. They’ve been dashed to bits and pieces so many many times before. And I work so hard too.
Who wrote 10,180 letters to Clark County farmers telling them to spit out their Red Man and vote for Kerry or the British intelligentsia will be very angry with them? Me.
Who told 21,120 Ohio Democratic voters in Cleveland that they vote on Wednesday, it’s Republicans that vote on Tuesday? Me.
Who donned a dress, stilleto heels, and a wig, became Lucy Ramirez and passed the fake TAG memo to that crazy guy from Texas? Well, me, but I don’t want to talk about that if you don’t mind.
And who is currently training a crack team of Jack Russell terriers on a planned attack on the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Me. That tower is coming down! (Achillea, you were right. The neutron ray shoulder held guns are working better than the AK47s, my compliments to you. And the language gap wasn’t that they couldn’t speak English after all, they just speak in a Louisiana dialect for some reason).
I want to ascend to full fledge Dealth Cult member status. I want my sword and lamb skin apron. Oh yeah, I want the generous bi-weekly checks, four week vacation, and the company health plan.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 31 at 01:24 AM • permalink
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