The level of public deficit is somewhat unsurprising when you consider that I need ongoing minor surgery that the NHS treats as effectively cosmetic, so I either have to pay or wait for longer than I should be allowed to wait if the targets were really targets. I had a double batch of this in England last year for £600, and a single one in France last month for 42 Euros. I'm pretty sure the doctor wasn't making a profit at that price...
France's circumstances don't really provide 'moderates' with any policy levers, so the only contenders on over 10% of the vote are a right-winger whose proposals probably wouldn't work and will never make it past the street, a left-winger who doesn't yet seem to have realised that France signed the Maastricht Treaty, an anti-politics candidate who has been a political insider for longer than the rest put together, and actively supports the status quo, and a fascist (who will get 16.5% I think).
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Date: 2007-04-10 12:35 pm (UTC)France's circumstances don't really provide 'moderates' with any policy levers, so the only contenders on over 10% of the vote are a right-winger whose proposals probably wouldn't work and will never make it past the street, a left-winger who doesn't yet seem to have realised that France signed the Maastricht Treaty, an anti-politics candidate who has been a political insider for longer than the rest put together, and actively supports the status quo, and a fascist (who will get 16.5% I think).