Mass French Rape

That would be “French taxpayers rape by the State en masse.”

“qu'ils mangent de la merde…"

The Daily Mail begins its article thusly;

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni have been ordered to rein in their expenses after it emerged they were spending more than £660 a day on flowers.

The extraordinary sum was revealed in a public audit which comes in the middle of the worst recession for decades.

The super rich couple also used taxpayers' money to settle £3,000 worth of fines for late payment of electricity and gas bills. 

But it is their annual payments to florists which has caused the most astonishment.  

At £241,000 it is even greater than that of pop star Elton John, who was once revealed to spend around £460-a-day on flowers.

Doesn’t matter, it isn’t their “numéraire.” Not surprisingly, the Grauniad takes a softer approach;

Nicolas Sarkozy has paid back more than €14,000 to the state after it emerged that personal and family bills were put through the Elysée accounts. The expenses came to light in the first state audit of a French leader's spending since Louis XVI just before the French revolution.

The report, published today by France's national auditor, acknowledged Sarkozy had paid back €14,123 in personal bills from 2008. The nature of the costs was not revealed and Sarkozy had asked for the receipts to be returned to him. The auditors said he had not known the expenses went through palace accounts. He paid the money back just before the report was made public.

Isn’t that nice of him? I’m sure he deserves it while he is busy teaching ‘true’ democracy to those ‘bloody fools’ in Ireland.