Plus ça change: Out with the old and in with the same

Greek and French votes have chosen a change in their leaders but the markets still seem in total control, writes Paddy Woodworth

AM I alone in getting apoplectic when I hear our commentators and reporters chorus, as a matter of fact, that the outcome of the French presidential election doesn’t really matter a damn?

François Hollande, it seems, might as well have stayed in bed, and left his country in the hands of Nicolas Sarkozy.