Discourager les autres
In my irregular and doomed attempts to learn French I had a lesson when I had to translate a comedy news item from a French newspaper.
It was very funny and was about the asylum seekers trying to get to the UK by boat. It interviewed an imaginary “expert” who proposed putting up a barrier in the middle of the Channel, with bouncers to turn people back, but which could be opened to let cross channel ferries across.
Amazingly enough this is now UKIP policy.
This is what happens when an incompetent government uses its failures to whip up hatred and racism, each new shameless chancer tries to think of better ways to keep the ignorant Little Englanders onside. Rather than actually process people properly, speedily and fairly and send most of them home; we now have to paint over cartoon characters and threaten to fly a people to Rwanda or the Falklands.
Doubtless there are plenty of real life Nazis out there who are proposing that we should drown a few babies pour discourager les autres (it will save lives in the long term you understand).
The joke isn’t very funny any more.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media