Morning all. I'm sorry about your friend, LG, so sad, too soon.
I've been reading a French newspaper on line this morning. Something has really impressed me. Mr Macron has published a letter he has written to the French people in which he asks the opinion of the general public what they think on all sorts of subjects about how France is run and asking for their ideas on how to improve things. Questions will be left in Mairies for people to answer on subject such as taxes, unemployment, schools (such as should they be managed by the state or the local authorities), the health service, social services, ecology etc.
He said that France is a country where people support each other by paying taxes which go towards helping the poor and supplying services but he is wondering whether some taxes are too high and others not high enough and what people think about it. He wants to improve employment so he is asking people how they think that could be achieved. He says the French are lucky to live in a country such as this and we must pull together for the improvement of it. He is quite strong about ecology and global warming.
I hope the French answer wisely.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Me too, but I also hope he listens to the answers. He was elected because he isn't a politician in the old party sense but as someone with a vision about how things need improving and changing. he's lost his way a bit since but maybe this will get him back on track.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
He’s sticking his neck out a bit there surely. There will not be two answers the same on that form, everyone has a different agenda according to their own status. You see when he wanted to put the price of fuel up there was uproars. Could that have been his way of doing his bit for the ecology and environment? I don’t know, not my business, I don’t live in that country.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Hi @punkdoc ... you've reminded me ... must get some aconites
Re Macron ... interesting and encouraging that he' seems to be checking the mood/ideas of the country ... as long as folk don't think that it's a 'vote' like our flippin' referendum.
Whatever the result of the referendum, the hubris of Cameron in calling it without thinking through the possible implications of the result (whichever way it went) is almost matched by the hubris of May for calling an election she didn't need, resulting in the government losing the power to implement the referendum result, whichever way it had gone. A disaster, both of them (and most UK politicians at the moment). Grrrrrrrr!!! I can't bear it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I thought I would cheer myself up as the weather has been so horrid so I invited 2 friends to tea who also said they were fed up with the weather. But now it isn't raining and it's warm enough to do some gardening! At least it means I've made bread, a fruit cake and the kitchen has had a good clean. Maybe I'll have time to prune a rose.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Didn't turn the page to see your post, Dove. I think it would have been better if Cameron had said there should have been a clear majority like a third to two thirds. The vote was so close that loads of people will be unhappy whatever happens. And now Labour want an election, do they have enough evidence to suppose they would win and why so soon after the previous election? Don't Prime Ministers finish their term anymore?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Wow I don't log on for a weekend & so many posts I will have to read back later. I agree Cameron was an idiot to think he could call that vote just to silence his back benchers. Like others I am dissapointed in May, she sounded so sensible in her first speech outside no 10 but has done none of it.
She shot herself in the foot by losing her majority and mortgaging her party to the DUP rather than going with a case by case arrangement with the Lib Dems and independents. Call themselves politicians? ... they don’t know the meaning of the word
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Morning all.
I'm sorry about your friend, LG, so sad, too soon.
I've been reading a French newspaper on line this morning. Something has really impressed me. Mr Macron has published a letter he has written to the French people in which he asks the opinion of the general public what they think on all sorts of subjects about how France is run and asking for their ideas on how to improve things. Questions will be left in Mairies for people to answer on subject such as taxes, unemployment, schools (such as should they be managed by the state or the local authorities), the health service, social services, ecology etc.
He said that France is a country where people support each other by paying taxes which go towards helping the poor and supplying services but he is wondering whether some taxes are too high and others not high enough and what people think about it. He wants to improve employment so he is asking people how they think that could be achieved. He says the French are lucky to live in a country such as this and we must pull together for the improvement of it. He is quite strong about ecology and global warming.
I hope the French answer wisely.
You see when he wanted to put the price of fuel up there was uproars. Could that have been his way of doing his bit for the ecology and environment? I don’t know, not my business, I don’t live in that country.
A little bit more cheery this morning, because Aconites are just starting to flower. They are always a few weeks ahead of the Snowdrops.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Call themselves politicians? ... they don’t know the meaning of the word
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.