The life of Austen

Most intriguing... I would imagine that if the striking/demonstrating students' studies lead them to come out with such unintelligible nonsense, they could easily find jobs in factories or stacking boxes or something far more useful than wasting taxpayer's money in university. Hey, maybe they could lay some of the lefty unionist teachers off, too - killing several birds with one stone: saving taxes on privileged civil servants, economising on the cost of having more civil servants to 'police' such 'manifestations' as we have recently witnessed and giving those who WISH to study something useful the opportunity to do so; without having the young and influencable workforce of tomorrow being force-fed Unionism as is terrorism to disciples of the IRA and Al Qaida.
It is not over yet. Let's hope that the current government, in tatters may it be, is strong enough to hold out until Sarkozy comes in next year. He's weakened up in the last day or two it seems. It might just be a popularity stunt, though(hoping that he is the true Thacherite that he came across as being..)

Dear Mr Sarkozy (if, of course you read my blog)

This is what you should do:
Buy a copy of the Thatcher years.(not forgetting to remember and re-use the phrase Norman Tebbit coined 'on yer bike')
My top tip is(and you don't have to be a genius to work it out) GET RID OF THE UNIONS. Change laws. Reduce their powers.Take away their advantages. Make unionism alien to modern society (which it should be, anyway).
Privatise everything which would be more efficient if run by the private sector (ie everything except for forces of order and government). Give these private sector companies full tax relief during the probationary period of reorganisation under close government supervision (WITHOUT intervention - 'The invisible hand').
Make uniforms compulsary for students between eleven and eighteen (or smart businesswear for those between sixteen and eighteen) I cannot believe how many French youngsters do not know how to knot a tie! It is disgraceful.

With the budget surplus created, you will now be able to quadruple the police force and army. You can then have them properly trained to police the Nation and learn 'objectivity'.

I will continue when you have succeded with these first points.

Yours faithfully,

Austen Spooner

I'm not sure how well he speaks English, though.