Showing posts with label POLITICS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POLITICS. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Sarkozy and Bruni rumoured to be having affairs


From the day of their first public date at Disneyland Paris, this thing has always been scripted like a fairy tale. Looks like there is trouble in the Magic Kingdom.

French media is falling all over itself with rumours that first couple Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni are both in affairs. Carla Bruni is supposedly having an affair with musician Benjamin Biolay, and Sarkozy is having an affair with Ecology Minister Chantal Jouanno.

Expectations of fidelity were always a pretty slim chance with Bruni who, before her marriage to Sarko, told an interviewer: “Monogamy bores me terribly.”

They're French........so it's OK.
As the saying goes......to have a mistress is French, to be caught with a mistress is American. When one marries one's mistress one creates a vacancy.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Belgium needs a dose of Austrailian Politics

In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly:
"I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.''
For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day.

She might have escaped that little time-out if she had responded to the speaker's demand for an apology with something other than "If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally.''

Monday, August 06, 2007

But will we still be able to get Waffles?

Arrêtez!... This could be the end of Belgium
Yves Leterme, the Flemish politician and party leader who is struggling to put together a ruling coalition after Flemish-speaking separatists made striking electoral gains, has declared Belgium "an accident of history".
Belgium has long been the butt of jokes from its larger European neighbours. But to its French-speaking minority, the current political crisis is no laughing -matter. READ ON