More on the French Election

In modern democracy, politicians all chase the same votes.

Gideon Rachman at the Financial Times writes:

[In London Mr. Sarkozy] portrayed his audience as exiles, driven overseas by France’s economic inertia. But in his speech on Sunday, his message was much less radical. There was some shaking of heads among his London supporters, as their man embraced much of the language of the left – promising to “protect” French workers from “unfair competition” from overseas.

Link via the Brussels Journal.