Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Just a small sample. There are always large-scale, insidious schemes at work in French politics.
It's true, in France or Italy a politician's capacity for embezzlement and fraud has become the measure of his political clout and competence. French politicians are extremely competent.

There's yet another marked difference in style. French politicians are accustomed to being bribed, whereas British politicians feel obliged to bribe others, usually foreign gentlemen in tea towels or ill-fitting Hong Kong-made suits. The Al Yamama deal (1985) comes to mind, a zinger so big that details about the slush funds have never been released by the Serious Fraud Office. At least Giscard was given diamonds by Bokassa, not the other way round.

After financing hundreds of insufferably stupid French movies, thousands of useless French EU bureaucrats and megazillions of overrated, heavily subsidised French wine I feel that The Hague should present Sarkozy with a towel and a $45 suit on his next birthday.