Sarkozy the Flip Flopper

The Times is calling Sarkozy out after his quick rebuke of Patrick Devedjian over the 35 hour work week:

So it was startling when, in Sarkozy’s campaign before last year’s election, he called the rule a “disaster” and vowed to scrap it. In January, he said that 2008 would be the year that the 35-hour week would die. But the next day, after a storm of rage from unions and the opposition, he backed down.

And there he stays, in a swamp of indecision, well back from the front line of change. It is a dreadful retreat for someone whose only clear mission was change.

© Boz : Sarkozy the Flip Flopper