sarko losing it?

As far as tantrums go - it wasn't that spectacular. But the five minutes or so before a televised interview on national telly French President Nicholas Sarkozy got quite irritated after a technician failed to say 'Bonjour' to the increasingly unpopular media tart presidenté. He scowled, accused the technicain of lacking education and got hot and bothered for a minute or so before having a pop at a journalist.

He's lashing out at everyone this week. He (quelle horreur) failed to salute the head of the Army at a meeting where the former was sacked, criticised the head of the ECB and had a go at the head of the French TV. To top it all infront of a UMP audience he quipped that "when there's a strike in France no one notices it anymore". A provocative statement and presumably a reference to the bollock grip he has on the French press and broadcasters. The theme that links these items is the more and more unstable body language of the poison gnome. He twitches and stares in a quasi comic fashion and his shoulder twitch about like he's got a rat up his arse. He's got another four years but my bets on him being relieved from office on medical grounds in the not so distant. Put it this way, he makes Gordon Brown look statesman-like.