The Flat Earth Left - alive and kicking across the channel
Libération has a poll of nigh on 900 left wing party members / sympathisers, and the finding would seem to demonstrate that globalisation, free markets are not à la mode over there.
Some of the more odd findings:
44% are radically opposed to globalisation or seek to modify it profoundly.
7% think that taking on globalisation is the #1 priority for the Left.
42% think it is wrong to reduce unemployment benefit for someone who turns down three job offers.
40% are wholly opposed to increasing productivity in the public sector through incentives.
35% want renationalisations (bearing in mind, privatisation in
Meanwhile, the tea leaf reading by Libé has identified five types of mammoth hiding in the tundra:
'Social liberals' or 'Blairisto-Strauss-Kahnians' - 30%. They are keen on economic growth, even though they are described as being 'close to the Socialists or Greens'.
'The Refractories' - 28%. Anti-globalisation, anti-science, pro big state.
'The Radicals' - 13%. Communists and fellow travellers.
'The Anti-Authoritarians' - 8%. A rag-bag of 'anti-capitalists', with rather more attachment to La Patrie than your average leftie. (They sound like fertile ground for Le Pen. C)
If Sego can get all of that lot to vote for her, I'll be astonished.
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Moi pas. All she has to do is to scare people about Sharko.
Apparently French lefties are still traumatised over Jospin's humiliating exit in the first round last time, so we shall see if that is enough to stop them from voting for fringe lefties in the opening vote.
44% are radically opposed to globalisation or seek to modify it profoundly.
In other words, they want to give money to the poor but don't want them to work and sell their products.
"I take the view that human beings are of limited mental capacity." Roger Scruton
What no Maoists? Although Jospin was once a bona fide Trot, of course. The PS is certainly an odd political formation- a richly layered fruit cake in many ways. 'still reckon Sarko will pull through in the second round of presidential voting. The 15-17% vote for LePen won't be going Sego's way after the first round. It's the Lepenists that'll be the deciding factor.
IT - It would seem not.
Meanwhile, here's a link to the results from 2002.
Only a bare majority of the electorate voted for what one might term conventional 'moderate' parties, and about a fifth voted for the extreme left - Trotskyites, Communists, Greens etc.
mm,how braod minded they are!
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