Friday, October 09, 2009

The French Really Are Different!

French 'boy sex' minister defiant
Okay but if he does resign who will be the new Boy Sex minister?

5 comments:

JuliaM said...

Bet there isn't the usual chicanery behind the scenes for that job..!

Ross said...

It's France we're talking about so it could be a highly desirable post.

Mark said...

The autobiography of Mitterrand the younger, published in France 4 years ago without a murmur, apparently includes Ortonesque passages rhapsodising about his adventures in Boyztown.
Somehow I doubt if anyone standing for office on this side of La Manche would ever be so brazen...
BTW it seems as though this only became notorious when Marine Le Pen kicked off about it !

Ross said...

From what the press were Was it not triggered by his intervention into the Polanksi affair?

Mark said...

Ross-yes, his comments on the Polanski affair were the trigger for the Front National to make hay, or, as the FT correspondent puts it-
'his writings, unearthed this week by the extreme right National Front which has been rendered largely irrelevant since Nicolas Sarkozy's electoral win in 2007, have given ammunition to government critics.'

I still cannot imagine a UK politician ever being as indiscreet as this;firstly, by putting this stuff in his autobiography and, secondly, by upping the ante with his comments about Polanski !