Attacks in Paris + Belgium

[Ian_Wrexham]

Spare a thought for Ebeneezer Goode during this difficult time.

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[SUTSS]

How does Frances voting system work? Seems FN are now back without any seats? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35088276

There is two rounds of voting. They never had any seats, they were just leading in them.

 

[Alty]

It's not quite the great success that it's being made out to be though, is it? Third party candidates standing aside has helped block the FN. But the FN remain the most popular single party in some of these regions.

 

[silkyman]

A nursery school teacher in Paris has been attacked with a knife by someone apparently shouting about ISIS.

News from AFP via Radio 5.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

'The attacker reportedly arrived wearing a balaclava and gloves but was unarmed and used weapons he found in the classroom.'

lone nutter

 

[smat]

He's not going to win any awards in Paris for that!

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

odd comment that, smat. what awards have been won in paris recently, pray tell

 

[smat]

Huh nah, imo it's in quite bad taste to post about winning a Best Play award for a production one wrote and starred in, in a thread about terrorist attacks resulting in over a hundred deaths. But I was in Paris this weekend. MOTWYW.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

as long as u stopped and thought about every one of the 130 dead then it's ok

 

[Ian_Wrexham]

A nursery school teacher in Paris has been attacked with a knife by someone apparently shouting about ISIS.

News from AFP via Radio 5.

Nonsense, apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35093799

 

[Alty]

Nonsense, apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35093799

Fucking hell. That's all a bit weird, isn't it?

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

sounds like mental illness

 

[smat]

Huh. Not the only performance of original fiction in the French capital this weekend, if you catch my drift!

 

[blade1889]

There is two rounds of voting. They never had any seats, they were just leading in them.

Sloppy wording on my part...i still don't understand the two rounds of voting. Especially as it seems the 2nd vote holds the sway

 

[SUTSS]

Sloppy wording on my part...i still don't understand the two rounds of voting. Especially as it seems the 2nd vote holds the sway

If someone gets 50% in the first round then they win, if not then everyone with more than 10% gets entered into the 2nd round (unless they withdraw) and whoever wins that actually gets the seat.

 

[Alty]

If someone gets 50% in the first round then they win, if not then everyone with more than 10% gets entered into the 2nd round (unless they withdraw) and whoever wins that actually gets the seat.

It's a bizarre system. In a way it would have suited FN to have put in a mediocre performance in round one so that the Socialists and Republicans would have carried on playing to win in round two.

 

[smat]

mediocre performance

Two words that haven't, so far, been used to describe... oh, you guys don't want me boring you with this.

 

[SUTSS]

It's a bizarre system. In a way it would have suited FN to have put in a mediocre performance in round one so that the Socialists and Republicans would have carried on playing to win in round two.

Not beyond the realms of possibilities for it to happen at the presidential as well with FN winning the first round and losing the run off.

 

[blade1889]

It's a bizarre system. In a way it would have suited FN to have put in a mediocre performance in round one so that the Socialists and Republicans would have carried on playing to win in round two.

If someone gets 50% in the first round then they win, if not then everyone with more than 10% gets entered into the 2nd round (unless they withdraw) and whoever wins that actually gets the seat.

Cheers! Weird way of doing things indeed

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

These people have no shame. The very same week France fixes the election too.

damn those mentally-ill french teachers, damn them to hell

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

A man has been convicted of preparing to carry out a so-called Islamic State-inspired knife attack on the streets of London.

Nadir Syed, 22, from Southall in west London, was arrested hours after buying a chef's knife in November 2014, days before Remembrance Sunday.

How in the fuck did they find out about this?

 

[Alty]

Not beyond the realms of possibilities for it to happen at the presidential as well with FN winning the first round and losing the run off.

The analysis I saw said there is a small, but not negligible, chance of Le Pen actually winning the presidency if it's the Socialists who look most likely to challenge. The logic being that Sarkozy would never do the 'honourable' thing and step aside, so you could have the centre-right and centre-left attacking each other while FN Nick victory.

Can't see it myself. But she'll probably improve upon her Dad's performance against Chirac (18% in the run off, was it?).

 

[johnnytodd]

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/christianattacks.htm

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

pops into thread
posts something with no input
disappears in cloud of smoke and brimstone

 

[johnnytodd]

pops into thread
posts something with no input
disappears in cloud of smoke and brimstone

just like a terrorist

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

they have conviction and imagination at least

 

[silkyman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35093799

Ooooohkaaaayyyy....

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

Nonsense, apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35093799

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35093799

Ooooohkaaaayyyy....

u are late 3 and a half hours late read the thread please

ian, not a mod

 

[DarkSithLord]

Nonsense, apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35093799

 

[HertsWolf]

just like a terrorist

Or a French schoolteacher.

Ban all French school teachers! Maintenant!