LePen for Presidential Candidate!

Before you read the title and hit me, let me explain what I mean....

I do not think that Jean-Marie LePen would be a good, or even adequate president. Blaming France's problems on immigration is like blaming global warming on the flatulence of cows - maybe it has an effect, but are you seriously going to cull them all? The fact is that France is in decline because of restrictive employment laws and all the red tape that comes with the French's preferred style of government (and Europe). Immigration is a cheap and easy excuse, and it is all too easy to stir up that sort of racial hatred.

However, it is absolutely appauling that a man who can get into the second round of a presidential election, can fail to be allowed into the next race because of a democratic nicety. French officials are, in effect, by-passing democracy by failing to give people the chance to vote for LePen.

I hope that these officials will look hard at themselves and ask whether their judgement is really better than that of the voters and, if not, will sign the bloody piece of paper. Then, and only then, will Jean-Marie get the kicking he deserves and we can put the spectre of racism firmly in France's past.

Making martyrs solves nothing