Wednesday, March 7, 2012
“Our system of integration is working more and more badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school. …Over the five-year term I think that to restart the process of integration in good conditions, we must divide by two the number of people we welcome, that’s to say to pass from 180,000 per year to 100,000.”

Nicolas Sarkozy, appearing on national television last night, attempted to solidify his elderly, right-wing base and appeal to wavering Front National supporters by raising the subject of immigration.

Sarkozy did not go as far as previous Gaullist leaders in his rhetoric — nowhere near as far, in fact, as Jacques Chirac, who referred in one awful address to a straw-man Maghrebi with a handful of wives and a dozen children living in a council-run tenement on benefits (…the noise and the smell…).

But, such language is disappointing from a leader of which I expect a lot more. There is enough material on Hollande (Monsieur 75%), Bayrou, and Le Pen to conduct a thorough and fair campaign, using their own policies and rhetoric against them, without going slumming or using godawful dog-whistles.

(Source: google.com)
Posted at 3:00 PM 6 notes Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy Marine Le Pen France election immigration Front National Jacques Chirac

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