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Depends what you mean by anglo-saxon: Clinton had several sexual skeletons in his closet and got elected twice and Trump had a checkered history too - it did neither of them harm.

Well, it is but we've been there before and the FN got well beaten. But the point I was making is that we could have had a far-left candidate in a two horse race, which would have been almost as bad. And if Bayrou and Hamon had switched stances, so the latter dropped out and the former didn't...

Only? That's a huge amount for a candidate with no party machinery behind him (and he actually got just over 24%). And for all the talk about a breakthrough, Le Pen only increased her vote from 17.9% in 2012 to 21.3%. The real winner was Mélenchon who jumped from 11.1% to 19.6%, a rise...

There aren't any direct equivalents: the FN is more like our BNP, it's a bit more statist than UKIP but equally anti-foreigners and anti-EU. Macron is probably closer to the Lib Dems or New Labour. The interesting result is that Melenchon was only a fraction behind Fillon - to put that into...

Rigged? I've never seen any suggestions that French elections are unfair. What do you base this idea on?