Air Sarko One – if it’s needed, it’s needed
Neither Le Figaro nor Le Monde are running the story, which suggests that the Telegraph‘s story on Air Sarko One is hearsay about a left wing beat-up but the gist was that the public are angry that he is getting a new jet.
There’s much to take Sarkozy to task about and his actions on the EU and in the internal scandals are something France will have to make its own decision about. However, a Head of State requires a plane which is going to fly and is not an ageing rust-bucket.
Would you expect him to turn up in a Piper Cherokee or a thirty year old Boeing? Planes cost money and it’s unfortunate that the need has come at this time, particularly as over here, MP’s expenses are such a big issue.
Ye the needs a plane new enough and safe enough which befits the elected leader of one of the world’s major nations. He needn’t compete with Obama’s sheer extravagance but he does need something halfway decent.
185 million euros is a not a huge price for the plane and all its security and embellishments.
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It appears he’s now underway:
Il est absolument inadmissible que le président de la République s’octroie 187 millions simplement pour se déplacer”, lance Patricia Adam. “Démagogie”, répondent les députés UMP, mais l’argument sera repris en juillet 2010, lorsque Ségolène Royal somme Nicolas Sarkozy de “sacrifier son avion de luxe”, dans cette période de crise “où l’on voit tant de misère”.
What a hypocrite – she would have had one if she could have and why shouldn’t a head of a major country have one anyway?
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“However, a Head of State requires a plane”
Does Oor Broon have one? One thing you’ve (or I’ve) got to credit Broon with is he is not one for the ostentatious trappings of power. And he’s genuine, while I’m at it (I think, tho I await your correction), and if I had to trust anyone in Parliament to look after a tenner for me I can’t think of a better chap than him. Me and my Dad met him and John Smith once up on the top of the Pentland Hills, a few months before Smith died. Smith was in sensible hill walking gear. Broon was in a bloomin suit and thick black overcoat. What a guy. I was also sick on his chair once, when we were at university together, a story I related some months ago on my blog. Don’t know why I am rambling on about Broon in a comment about Sarko; but old minds wander… forgive.
Ah – that explains a lot.
Mmmm. It sure does.
As I stated in a disappeared post, when rulers such as Nick Clegg feel that they have to resort to ordering, for his personal safety, a £300,000 bomb proofed Jaguar and Sarko deems it too dangerous to be within stabbing or shooting distance of his own countryfolk it makes me wonder if they shouldn’t be listening a bit more closely to the concerns of their electorates.
When the ruling elite disregard the wishes, hopes and dreams of the hoi poloi then life becomes a tad dangerous.
I cite Giffords V Loughner.
BTW, the MSM are describing him, among other things, as a loner which is how his name is pronounced.
I know, the start of a conspiracy theory.