The rewards may be great, but you do have to do something to get them in spite of what people think. Politicians probably work hardest to get the power to cheat us all than at any other point of their stay. Sometimes - it goes wrong:    http://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/presidentielle/carte-ces-56-communes-ou-marine-le-pen-n-a-fait-aucune-voix_2159674.html In any case, we will now all have the delights of 2 weeks non-stop TV & Radio coverage, insults on Facebook and Twitter, with the peanut man in Washington lending them all a helping hand. My personal position is simple...... I haven't got one.......! In the main, I'm not allowed to vote anywhere and if I could then the only politician halfway qualified correctly and humanely, worldwide, is Mrs (Frau) ANGELA MERKEL     -       She is also the only person internationally to have understood that the person masquerading as American President at this moment is gravely ill - mentally. The look says it all!   She

Chez mr.le Marquis du Galipot.: Nero fiddled Syndrome...... : not quite fiddling! You all have heard this quote - 'Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned'..... Well, I have a theory which brings i...

not quite fiddling! You all have heard this quote - 'Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned'..... Well, I have a theory which brings it 'bang up to date'..... Since last year, when I heard the name/word 'Trump' in the sense of an American Politician, I've been looking for some kind of explication of his phenomenon, and I think I've found it.   In the beginning, over a couple of glasses of Scotch whisky, in the bar of his own personal Scottish golf club, talk got around to Politics, rather like poor people talk about winning the Lotto or the Pools. What would you do if........? Mr Trump, a declared Bankrupt on 5 occasions, took his time, and finally said.... 'If I became President of The United States of America, I would have a ball of a time, so long as they let me!' He continued, at length, to say that these 'damned politicians were all WEAK THINGS, with no intelligence.'  They required a good shake up....... Time