L’affaire Lagarde rumbles on. The lady who was recently telling us that unless we all donned sackcloth and ashes and lived in Carbon abstinence we would all be “roasted, toasted fried and boiled” has found herself in even deeper hot water than she was already.
From the Telegraph:
An undated copy of the letter was found at Mrs Lagarde’s flat in Paris during a raid by police investigating a spiralling financial scandal surrounding payments to businessman Bernard Tapie.
“I’m on your side to serve you and serve your projects for France,” she said in the letter.
“Use me during the time that suits you best and fits your action and your cast….If you decide to use me, I need you as guide and supporter: without guide, I might be ineffective, without support I might be implausible.”
She signed off: “With my immense admiration, Christine L.”
Critics described the letter as a pledge of allegiance and is reported to have been written during the 2007 French Presidential campaign, when she held a relatively minor post.
The letter was leaked to French newspaper Le Monde, and its publication has caused acute embarrassment for the head of the IMF.
Ms Lagarde was finance minister during Mr Sarkozy’s term as President, before stepping down to become managing director of the Washington-based IMF in 2011.
Her Paris flat was raided as part of an investigation into her handling of a 2008 compensation payment to a businessman supporter of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, her lawyer said.
Police are investigating claims that Lagarde, when French Finance Minister under Sarkozy, acted illegally in approving the €285m arbitration payout to Bernard Tapie.
Ms Lagarde denies any wrongdoing
Tallbloke's Talkshop 
I would still rather have Lagarde in place now than the utter pillocks we have in government at the moment. What is really galling is that I live in france, pay all my taxes to france am a municipal coucillor in france BUT I can’t vote the idiots out. In 3 years I will be completely disenfranchised. That’ socialism for you.
”That’ socialism for you.”
Could you not take French citizenship ? and thereby have a voice.
As for Lagarde, had she not received ‘Immunity’ by becoming a witness for the prosecution ?
Christine Lagarde used to attend special private gatherings with Dominique Strauss Kahn.
Now that is current climate news.
‘In the end you know’…………..it all makes sense
Did he?
http://www.uncaccoalition.org/learn-more/blog/256-waiving-immunity-lets-those-in-power-be-held-to-account
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