11 janvier<\/a>, bref entrefilet, pl\u00e9onasme pour m\u00e9nager nos curs fatigu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe size of the British economy has slipped below that of France for the first time since 1999 thanks to the slide in the value of the pound.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSterling’s rapid fall to 11-year lows against European currencies has also pushed Britain into sixth place in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe US, Japan, Germany, China and France all had larger economies than the UK in the third quarter of 2007 and in 2006.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe figures represented a political economic cataclysm for Britain, said Martin Weale, the director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, who noted that the UK government often boasted of Britain’s being the fourth largest economy, and then the fifth largest when China overtook the UK in 2005.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe UK’s demotion to sixth place will put pressure on the government’s reputation for economic competence, particularly as it is Britain’s ancient rival, France, that is moving ahead.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tPlusieurs remarques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t Nos t\u00eates r\u00e9sonnent encore des incantations et d\u00e9votions, tout au long de la campagne pr\u00e9sidentielle fran\u00e7aise, d\u00e9pos\u00e9es sur le socle de la statue \u00e9rig\u00e9e \u00e0 la gloire du mod\u00e8le anglais, qui ne pouvait \u00eatre pour la France qu’une imp\u00e9rative mais lointaine r\u00e9f\u00e9rence sans espoir jamais d’\u00eatre atteinte. Que se passe-t-il? Les d\u00e9clinistes fran\u00e7ais se sont-ils gourr\u00e9s de d\u00e9clin? Sarko est-il encore plus fascinant qu’on nous le dit, pour avoir r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 fasciner les chiffres? Ou bien, Sarko serait-il un d\u00e9guisement continental de Blair et rien d’autre, ce qui explique que nous ayons vu double au congr\u00e8s de l’UMP?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t La performance fran\u00e7aise est du \u00e9galement au taux de change avantageux de l’euro par rapport \u00e0 la sterling, ce qui fera pond\u00e9rer la nouvelle, en France, par les sp\u00e9cialistes du d\u00e9clin. (\u00abIn 2006, the GDP of France was 1,792bn (\u00a31,353bn) compared with \u00a31,304bn for the UK. With sterling worth 1.47 on average in 2006, this put the UK economy comfortably 6.7 per cent ahead of the French economy. But with sterling’s more than 10 per cent fall against the euro in the past six months to 1.32 to the pound, the UK’s economy in 2008 is now 4 per cent smaller than France.<\/em>\u00bb) Ce qui est instructif, pour le contraire, c’est que la sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 britannique jusqu’en 2007 est \u00e9galement un arrangement de parit\u00e9 mon\u00e9taire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Enfin, il y a l’explication de monsieur Martin Weale qui qualifie la nouvelle de cataclysme, notamment et, semble-t-il, principalement, parce que la place de 4\u00e8me puis 5\u00e8me (apr\u00e8s l’ascension de la Chine) puissance \u00e9conomique mondiale du Royaume-Uni \u00e9tait un formidable argument promotionnel et publicitaire pour les int\u00e9r\u00eats britanniques (Martin Weale \u00abwho noted that the UK government often boasted of Britain’s being the fourth largest economy, and then the fifth largest when China overtook the UK in 2005<\/em>\u00bb). Nous avons choisi explication plut\u00f4t qu’aveu, premier mot \u00e0 venir sous notre plume, parce qu’apr\u00e8s tout il n’est pas honteux d’utiliser de telles figures symboliques dans une \u00e9poque de communication, pour promouvoir les int\u00e9r\u00eats d’une nation. Reste \u00e0 voir si les Fran\u00e7ais, fid\u00e8le jusqu’au bout au mod\u00e8le britannique, ne vont pas d\u00e9sormais passer leur temps \u00e0 nous expliquer qu’effectivement, ces classements n’ont pas grande signification autre que des artifices de communication, et que la France reste toujours abonn\u00e9e \u00e0 la d\u00e9cadence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 14 janvier 2008 \u00e0 09H20<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr. Martin Weale, Director du National Institute of Economic and Social Research du Royaume-Uni dit que c’est un cataclysme politique et \u00e9conomique pour son pays. Quoi? Une nouvelle banque qui s’effondre? La City qui est rachet\u00e9e \u00e0 150% par les talibans? Allons, on ne plaisante pas. Il s’agit de l’annonce que l’\u00e9conomie fran\u00e7aise a d\u00e9pass\u00e9… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3101,5888,3795,7373,5197],"class_list":["post-69602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-angleterre","tag-declinistes","tag-economie","tag-frande","tag-modele"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}