Scrambling in the spoils

I don’t know if the piece of information has reached Middlesbrough but in France we are going to be in an election campaign or rather election campaigns because we’ll have two elections: the presidential election and the parliamentary election.
Apart from politics, it is interesting to look at the behaviour of our politicians!
Today, we have “a hype” in all the media and it is difficult to escape from it except if you switch off the TV or if you forget to buy newspapers!
You can read interviews or attend meetings between the candidates. They are in the campaign to try to appeal to electors. They are trying to sell an image with smiles or seriousness, good clothes, good complexion and sometimes a blow-dry and dye for men! Everybody wants to look younger! For certain people it is difficult… (as we could say: a coat of paint doesn’t prevent a wall from collapsing!!). They apply the same method as for ‘toothpaste’ advertising.
If you listen to them, they try to denigrate each other even in the same party surely to appear more intelligent and dominating. In a few words, they try to “kill” their opponents. They throw ‘murderous’ little sentences at each other. Often the arguments are pitiful. Journalists are often in the game and stir up the conflicts!
Above all, they all want our happiness: More things and fewer taxes, or more things and more taxes, it depends on the party! Happiness doesn't have the same meaning for everybody. We have an expression to say that the future in politics will be better: tomorrow ‘one shaves off free’ (“demain on rase gratis..”). Maybe the English equivalent is: tomorrow everything will become rosy?
The great problems are not tackled or are cleverly avoided. We are in the domain of lies (named in French: “politics untruth”! (contre-vérité)), of denigration, of disinformation. They always promise a better life but as we say in France: “promises only bind people who listen to them!!” Experience shows that it is true…Generally the main objective of a politician is to be re-elected.
The position has to be a good one because there are a lot of people who are fighting and who want to be the “happy elect”…

It must certainly be the same thing in England!


Claude.