Don’t count your Subsidised Chickens

After placing a long and sharp knife into the back of Our Dear Leader as an encore to stopping the liberalisation of services at the recent summit, Kickback Jacques could have been forgiven for thinking that things were going his way. It was not to be.

The French government was left smarting on Thursday as disappointing economic forecasts from its own statistics agency undermined efforts to regain the initiative before a crucial referendum on the European Union constitution in May.

Take my advice Jacques, before lecturing the rest of us on how to run our economies, sort your own out first.