Imagine, if you can, the next Republican candidate for the presidency campaigning in Toronto.
That is about what French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy just did. He held a campaign rally in Billingsgate fish market in London, England.
Why on earth would he do that? Well, how about 300,000 French people living and working in London?
Anyway, the French expats loved it. According to Anthony Browne
Police struggled to control the crowd of hundreds of French citizens living in Britain as they attempted to see the dynamic Interior Minister, who is favourite to succeed President Chirac.
That was not all. Read this:
Addressing 2,000 cheering expatriates at the old Billingsgate fish market, Mr Sarkozy spelt out his vision of a modern France no longer trapped in the past. The audience of students and business people shouted “Sarko!”, waved the Tricolour, and sang La Marseillaise as video screens declared: “Together, everything is possible.” They then broke out into Happy Birthday — in English — in tribute to the centre-right candidate’s 52nd birthday on Sunday.
Yes, the French in London are not the French we love to hate. We took a look at them a while back on Road to the Middle Class. Nice chaps.
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