Sounds painful!
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There’s a chance that Marine Le Pen won’t be able to run for office again…
That would be handy, though as we have seen with the Orange One, legal processes can get delayed long enough to become null and void.
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Just wait 6 months before the next election & or GE & there may be more others… & now Trump is in power…
I think that the US justice system is a joke. Hopefully the French justice system is less so…
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Don’t forget her prodigy, Bardella. He is of the same mould or should that be mold?
Repulsive little spiv.
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I love that word, too little used nowadays imo. During the war, apparently, you couldn’t move for them. 
I’m thinking of starting the SAC, spiv appreciation society. 
Everybody has to wear long jackets, wide brimmed turned down hats, pencil moustaches, fag dipping out of the corner of the mouth and an incurable twitching of the neck, as they keep looking this way and that. 
Oh, and a tie, either slim jim or very wide, but always colourful.
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Lorst 'is fag. 
All I could come up with was Arthur English
but I was really looking for that outrageous comedian who was said to have been banned from the BBC for telling a joke about a man walking along a one person wide mountain track and, on meeting a beautiful naked woman coming the other way, was racked with indecision as to whether he should…
Can’t finish it in case of banning from here.
But I can’t remember his name. 
Well there’s a surprise. Marine LP is saying it’s politically motivated. Where did we hear that before? I’d like to see the orange maggot up before French courts.
Charlie Chester comes to mind…? Max Miller?
Max Miller, that’s the bloke, did you remember the joke? It was so rude I can hardly believe he ever did it, maybe simply apochryphall.
Probably Max Miller, yes.
before my time of course 
And in this thread is the rest of the text of that joke, for the curious:
https://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/1272/max-miller-on-rude-jokes
Yes, saw him on TV with that joke…
There are some youtube videos…
Thanks Chris, that’s the one, but I think this comment in that thread is telling:
I was told by someone (perhaps my ex-brother-in-law) that an astute BBC employee, who must have know the joke faded, Miller out before he met the lady.
Not being picky but I had to read that twice, because the comma after ‘faded’, should have been after ‘joke’ instead.
Let’s hear it for accurately placed commas. Yay.
Well, he didn’t tell that one but I did note the host was called Blue Thread Productions. So maybe another time.
Pte Walker out of Dad’s Army was one.
My great aunt was (allegedly) one in WWII. She didn’t have a moustache though, or a raincoat, or a trilby. Her best friend, my godmother, was a Magistrate and Chairman of Billeting and Food Control for the town during WWII. I wonder where she got all her stuff from
Does she only have one black trouser auit? seen same outfit so many times. Something mid blue would suit her so much better