French Fillon cabinet survivor!

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AAAAHHHH ! Thank you, Hash. A great idea !
Je vais pouvoir me défouler !

Frédéric Mitterrand, indeed.

(but Morano, Estrosi, Lellouche, Hortefeux, Blanc aren't far behind...)

(and I've got a favourite... but, surprise, not Valérie...)

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Oh, I didn't vote for him because of this.
Just because he is a joke.
When I heard about his name the first time in the government, I've said "when Roger Hanin as minister of the Interior ?" (of course, it's Sarkozy's fault, but, nevertheless, Mitterrand is a joke)

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OK, so, let's go for Nadine Morano.
Vulgar and authoritarian.

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You may have said exactly the same for Morano.

I guess we can oust her next round, but, really, she deserves to go VERY EARLY.

So, Estrosi now.

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Nadine Morano !

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Frédéric Mitterrand

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Mmmm, at last a fine round !
(and with Morano out, life's wonderful!)

Well, I really want to oust Mitterrand now, but Raincourt, Lellouche, Kouchner, Penchard, Bachelot are all strong contenders for me.

Marleix ? When you are serious, I agree he must go. But when you're "political", I like the personnage.
It's the same with Joyandet: I don't like him (at all) personally and as for ideas, but I like the political figure...
(see my previous weird words in favor of Beria, Lin Biao or Bormann in previous survivors... )

BTW, fortunately, Boutin is no longer in the list: I would have been forced to defend her for her ideas, but to dump her for her being a very, very poor politician and having a ridiculous positioning. The other way round, if you want...

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Penchard, indeed.

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PiT ? Edu ? MaxQue ?

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Mitterrand

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Frédéric Mitterrand

I don't like Bachelot at all, but, at least, she's working a bit (the recent bill on hospitals), whereas Mitterrand is only able to put civil servants in strikes... and to say stupidities all around.
(Bachelot was used to this also, but not for the last year).

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Mitterrand won't last so much either.

Oh yes, please. He is not a real minister !
And I want to deal with the (real) bad ones after that: Raincourt, Blanc, Morin, etc.

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Mitterrand won't last so much either.

Oh yes, please. He is not a real minister !
And I want to deal with the (real) bad ones after that: Raincourt, Blanc, Morin, etc.

Don't worry, I've no sympathy at all for so-called "left-wing" ministers.

Oh that wasn't my worry. And, well, he has never been a left guy, I think .
My point is that he ISN'T and WILL NEVER BE a real minister: my first thought, when he was picked by Sarkozy, was to think Roger Hanin would be the next Interior minister...

Laporte was a complete joke, too: never able to be a minister or even a secrétaire d'Etat.

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Yeah, nothing new by the fact Sarkozy makes 'media castings' before political ones (though politics is becoming media...), well at least we can say he choses more the people for their images than for their competences. In that sens, the only reproach we can do to Mitterand (who, yes, hasn't his plce here, I always said it) here is that he accepted the job, and he hasn't done much by now, he has just been stupid in media about a non French-issue (which is already something, ok).

Though, there are worse cases to be ruled from my point of view. And how could have I forgotten that damn Morin??!

So, now, I would hesitate between the 2 guys who clearly haven't their places where they are. Morin and Lelouche.

Hmm...

Lelouche. That guy should never let be closed of anything concerning foreign relationships, unless he discovers yoga, or something, or politeness, correction, stuffs like that. He should be a kind of adviser at best.

Lelouche.

Lellouche epitomizes the (bad) meaning of the word dilettante...

I'm really surprised that, a this point, France, under his command and hisown foreign policy, hasn't invaded Belgium, recognized an independent Tyrol, sent an expeditionary force in Lappland and broke diplomatic relations with Germany.
A question of weeks, I guess.

He's really very close after Mitterrand on my list (the next one, in fact).

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OK, but that's the last one, after him, I really stick to Mitterrand.... already round 9 !

Lellouche

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Lellouche.

Yes, I was thinking about Mitterand too for next one, not particularly for what he could have done, mainly because politics surely isn't his place.

Ouf !
Great news !

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Frédéric Mitterrand

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Henri de Raincourt, of course.
You really don't know him, eh ?

(and Morin next !)

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Henri de Raincourt, of course.
You really don't know him, eh ?

Eh, I must confess.

Oh, it was more for Lagarde's voters...
At least, Morin is a real zero in his area (Lagarde is only partly a zero).

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That Raincourt is the only one about which I have no clue. What's wrong with him?

The local baron who is a zero, who has never achieved anything big locally but, just because he is an old one, says he has the "experience" and the "common sense" of a "real" elected politician.

And now that he is a minister (he didn't think he could once in his life !), he is just an attack dog, even less clever than Morano...

About la taxe professionnelle, he was only able to repeat the official papers of the ministry for local affairs.

For "relations with Parliament", I don't know how he can compete a second with Copé, Longuet, Larcher or even Accoyer. That's ridiculous.

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K. Thanks.

I several times wondered if a 'minister of relationship with Parliament' was really necessary. Especially with a weak Prime Minister of which it could be the role.

And concerning his attacks well, the slightest I would say is that they are not very loud, never heard one word from him, neither reported, though I gave up newspapers.

Anyways, well, his post is not that much important, and with joke like Morin still here, personally I wouldn't go on him now.

In fact, this is Fillon who deals with relations with Parliament... as he has no big things to do (despite the fact that, since September, he is clearly more powerful).
Raincourt is used only to defend bills that are in no one else's portfolio...

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Hervé Novelli
Christian Blanc

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Christian Blanc
(stupidly authoritarian and unduly proud of himself)

Hervé Morin
(not for his political positioning, but because he is a dull defence minister, who isn't even interested in his subject...)

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Oh no, you can't do that, guys...
Many are worse than Pécresse...

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C'est une "double peine" pour moi !
Pécresse est éliminée et, en plus, pas de belle photo des perdants... Snif !
Je proteste énergiquement !

Anyway, I was about to vote for Kouchner (WTF is his real influence on French foreign policy ? his added value ?), but he can wait one more round.

Hervé Morin (il est juste nul)

Michel Mercier (à la soupe !)

As for Devedjian, he seems weird sometimes in his public declarations, but he's really a clever guy. And his current way of being a bit out of the ambitious mainstream should be appreciated. With the years, he has become a wise man and he... works really, also, contrary to some others...