France needs Sarko like it needs a hole in the head.

Sarkozy is supposed to be something of a Blairite.

Ask most British people what they think about having lived through a decade of Blairism.

You'd be incredibly lucky to get Segolene Royal instead of Sarkozy, and not have to spend the next ten years living through the French equivalent of the New Labour project, which has basically destroyed the health and education systems in the UK, and done nothing to improve social equality.

After a decade of Blair, the richer have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer, and there was report published recently by... Save the Children... I think... that said that many of the UK's children are living in poverty, below the officially recognised poverty line.

If you want that to happen in France, then vote for Sarkozy. God help you if you do.