I can’t claim to be very up to date with French politics (keeping track of uk politics is bad enough at the moment) so all I can say about this news that Nicolas Sarkosy has been jailed for corruption is, our french neighbours definitely have the right idea. If our politicians had more of a threat of jail sentences hanging over them, perhaps they would behave themselves a bit more, and not lead the country down blind alleys which they know it will take us decades to recover from.