Friday, 5 September 2014

Politics in these parts

The last municipal elections in the region produced a number of surprises, with overall control in Béziers going to the extreme right.  Hereabouts we remain sleepily socialist, I  think, though meetings of the Conseil Municipal are not without their surprises.  When a vigneron who had not signed up with the rest to hook up to the water main later applied, the general feeling was 'make him pay extra'.  And when it came to selling building plots, the then future Mayor was keen to limit purchase rights to people from the village.  Still, I notice an engaging even-handedness in vox pop.  You'll recall my mentioning a graffito near a neighbouring village whose wine marketing slogan, appropriately enough, is Terre d'Expression.  It reads 'Sarko - fils de pute' in generous tribute to the former president (and former mayor of a commune I lived in once).  Just up the road, another sign is decorated with an even more generous tribute to the current president: 'Hollande - pute'.  Such eloquence.  Touching, really.

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