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February 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Jacques Chirac’s legendary prowess at
patting cows’ derrières coupled with securing huge EU funds
for French agriculture, has helped anchor the farming community firmly to
the Right. Suffering from Alzheimers, Chirac will miss only his second salon
since 1972 (the other was after a road accident).
Nicolas
Sarkozy inherited that popularity when he took over in 2007, but he
almost blew it all the following year by famously telling a farmer at the
salon who wouldn’t shake his hand to “sod
off, you stupid jerk”.
That insult coupled with plummeting commodity prices which saw farmers’
revenues drop by 20 per cent in 2008 and 34 per cent in 2009 saw support for
Sarko among farmers to fall from 87 per cent in 2007 to 32 per cent in 2010.
But with farmer’s morale buoyed by rising food prices, support for Sarkozy is
on the rise, and now 40 per cent intend to vote for him in round one, according
to an Ifop poll out on Sunday. That’s 11 per cent less than he won in
2007, but well above his national average.
Opening the salon on Saturday, Sarko spent a record – for him – four hours
chatting with farmers. Accepting offerings of langoustine, chocolate and
Reblochon cheese, he showed he was prepared to go the extra mile to stave
off the National Front, whose leader Marine Le Pen claimed to be the
“champion” of rural France on Saturday.
It’s pretty basic stuff – “From our suburbs, violence is pouring out without
resistance on the France of fields and church bells,” said Le Pen on
Saturday – but the FN is making inroads with 17 per cent of the forecast
vote and has launched its own rural
website hoping to cash in on the hunters’ vote and anti-EU sentiment.
The only truly rural candidate of the bunch is centrist François Bayrou, who
rears horses in his native Béarn and whose father was a farmer. He claimed
his popularity in the 2007 was down to “tractor power”. But the magic is
working less well this time and he’s only forecast to secure 16 per cent of
the farming vote.
That’s two points more than François Hollande, the Socialist frontrunner, who
has spent years ploughing the electoral furrow in rural Corrèze, Chirac’s
old stamping ground, but there too, his links with La France Profonde have
not translated into support from farmers.
That could explain why Hollande has scheduled to spend a record TEN hours at
the salon tomorrow.
“He’s clearly got a lot to make up for,” Sarko quipped.
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