Fuck Cameron ! Le peuple anglais, si admirable à tant d’égard, secrète parfois dans ses rangs des personnages insupportables par leur arrogance aristocratique.
Ainsi David Cameron, Premier ministre conservateur du Royaume-Uni, tout de morgue et de certitude, qui donne au libéralisme dont il se réclame un visage grimaçant. Pour brocarder la réforme des impôts prévue par la gauche française, Cameron a annoncé qu’il serait heureux de dérouler un tapis rouge aux investisseurs effrayés par l’ardeur fiscale que le gouvernement Ayrault s’apprête à déployer.
London riots: Thugs force people to strip naked to steal clothes. Thugs taking part in the London riots even forced people to strip naked to steal the clothes off their back.
UK riots 2011: London and Birmingham people forced to strip naked in the street. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 00:51 GMT, 10 August 2011 This picture shows the shocking depths the thugs were prepared to plumb – stealing the clothes from a man’s back.
The taller, broader man already holds a pair of white and green trainers and a white T-shirt in his hands. Now, it seems, he wants the trousers too. The shorter man dutifully removes his jeans, leaving only his dark blue underpants and his white socks.
A la une - PESSIMISME – Les Français ont la palme ! - LePetitJournal.com. On savait les Français, râleurs, ronchons, recordmen de la consommation d'antidépresseurs… Les voilà aujourd'hui affublés d'une nouvelle étiquette : pessimistes !
C'est ce qu'indique une enquête, intitulée Voice of the People (la voix des peuples), réalisée par l'institut de sondage BVA Opinion en collaboration avec le réseau Gallup International Association. Pas de quoi redonner le moral en ce début d'année… (photo Corbis) Le moral de 64.203 personnes dans 53 pays différents a été jaugé fin 2010. Cette enquête montre (ou confirme !)
Que les Français broient du noir. 61% des Français anticipent des difficultés économiques en 2011 - contre 28% en moyenne dans le monde - et envisagent l'année avec pessimisme. Optimisme dans les pays émergeantsSur le vieux continent, ce sont donc seulement 15% des Européens qui misent sur une année prospère. A la une - EXPAT – Vivre en France ? Plus jamais ! - LePetitJournal.com.
America's real special relationship - World Politics, World. "To suggest that Paris and not London is Washington's strongest partner is simply ludicrous," said Dr Nile Gardiner, director of the US-based Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.
"Such a remark is not only factually wrong but insulting to Britain. " Actually, President Obama said no such thing. In welcoming the French President to a building that was once burned by the British, Mr Obama said: "We don't have a stronger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French people. " Germany GB France.gif. Offres d’emploi - Frog Valley. Values Associates recherche un stagiaire en vente sur Londres www.values-associates.com is looking for a Sales intern to help in developing its services in the UK market.
John Bull. An earlier John Bull in which he is depicted as an actual humanoid bull.
An 1897 editorial cartoon with John Bull, Uncle Sam, and a dog symbolizing Japan from the newspaper the Hawaiian Gazette. The dog follows the "Hawaii" sausage in Uncle Sam's pocket. A 1904 German cartoon commenting on the Entente cordiale: John Bull walking off with Marianne, turning his back on Germany. OPALE LINK. Portail d'information et de conseils sur le bilinguisme.
The Internet is dragging Britain away from Europe and towards the Anglosphere. The EU is being made redundant by technological change.
In the 1950s, a regional trade association arguably made sense. But in a world where capital surges around the globe at the touch of a button, physical proximity becomes irrelevant. When deciding whether to invest in a country, corporations will consider many factors – tax rates, regulation, language, corruptibility of public officials – before they worry about geography. The Internet makes it as easy for my constituents to do business with a company in New Zealand as with a company in Belgium.
Easier, indeed, because the Kiwi company shares our common law, accountancy practices, commercial traditions and language. UK-France Euro Route. You may say I’m a dreamer, in the words of the poet Lennon, but I’m not the only one.
It was back in the 1980s that EuroRoute proposed a magnificent scheme to the British and French governments, backed by such names as Barclays and Trafalgar House. The EuroRoute involved both a road and a rail link, and it strikes me as tragic that we didn’t choose it Time to reconquer France Even as I write these words, I can hear the anguish in the voice of my constituent. Every morning she gets up and looks at the mist rising from the meadows of Oxfordshire; and every morning she dreads the bulldozers biting through the hedges and the habitats, and in her mind’s eye she sees the rabbit-hutch housing filling the fields, and in her agony she turns to me and wonders. “Le Discours d’un roi”, un roman national. En route pour les Oscars, le film de Tom Hooper confirme que la Seconde Guerre mondiale est bien le grand mythe fondateur de la Grande-Bretagne contemporaine, et Elizabeth II son dernier lien vivant avec cette période.
En cette saison où pleuvent les récompenses cinématographiques, petit rappel à l’attention de nos amis comédiens.