I won't Segolene to win - but for rather base reasons, I'm afraid! 

I could be wrong, but think she a bit of a lefty, but, would be fun to see her make fun of george bush, which, you just know she would.

I had to read that twice, Lord B! 

Strictly from the point of view of British national interests it would be better if she won in that the French are really in need of the kind of tough reforms that Sarky says he'll do - without them, they'll continue to disintegrate as a country - and she won't be able to put such reforms in place. And what's bad for France is ipso facto usually good for England, as De Gaulle said (though he put it the other way round, of course!)

That said, I suppose it would be a shame to see a once great country go down the pan.

Anybody here what happened to the independent ex-farmer candidate, forgot his name-got up the nose of McDonalds in France, Palestinian support etc. Obviously not going to get far, but lobby influence perhaps?
I'd have thought agriculture was a pivotal issue nationally, plus immigration/ arondissement conditions for
immigrants?