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France's newly elected president Nicolas Sarkozy has kicked up a storm and he has done it with the help of Havas-owner Vincent Bollore.
The French press and socialist losers have got themselves in a tizzy, much in the same way the Daily Mail does when Tony Blair took a holiday with the likes of Silvio Berlusconi.

If you are the President of France, who are you going to call? Of course, it’s going to be a billionaire and industrialist.

Le Monde showed Sarkozy's wife reclining on a deck chair, commanding: "Silence, poor people!" Ouch.

Not only that, the opposition has accused Sarkozy of "debauchery" and "tactlessness". Bollore never struck me as the debauched type, but then again he does have a 200ft "floating palace" with seven cabins for 12 people, a 17-member crew, giant plasma screens and an on-deck Jacuzzi, not to mention two jet-skis, kayaks, water skis and diving equipment.

Sarkozy doesn't seem worried and has shrugged off criticism of his three-day cruise. After all, much like Blair's trips, it doesn't cost the taxpayer a cent.

"I could have gone to a hotel, but imagine what that would have been like," said Sarkozy, "Already, when I'm on a boat you rented out planes and helicopters to take photos of me. I have no intention of hiding, I have no intention of lying, I have no intention of apologising."

Maybe Sarkozy was letting Bollore in on a few of his plans to shake up the ailing French industrial landscape. The Havas chairman was on board and Sarkozy only had praise for him.

"Vincent Bolloré, one of the great French industrialists, has never worked for the state and does honour to the French economy. I wish lots of Vincent Bollorés on the French economy, men who are able to invest to create jobs.

"You know, it's not a disgrace to have worked hard, to have created a big group, to give out jobs."
Published May 10 2007, 11:16 AM by Gordon Macmillan
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by Will Callaghan
May 10, 2007 12:04 PM
 
Carping about luxury yachts isn't going to rescue the Socialists from their 17 year slump. It may play well with the converted, but it's the unconverted they need to reach. Time to change the record.
 
 
by Ben Alcock
May 11, 2007 2:52 PM
 
I'd have thought the accusations of debauchery would rather appeal to the electorate! Oui?
 
 
by Hal Clarke
May 11, 2007 3:08 PM
 
The French love debauchery almost as much as smoking and red wine (Ed more cliches here, ta)
 
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