Bloody farmers

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They are protesting on 2 roundabouts in Bergerac.

The Police just shut the road,make everybody divert through town while they burn bales of straw and fk knows how many tyres.

It’s a disgrace which is met with a typical Gallic shrug.

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Don’t be so patronising.

Having lived in France for 14 years I’m fully up to speed with the various professions and their strike schedules.

What is objectionable is the burning of tyres and bales.
The roundabouts now look like the Somme and the roads a rally stage.

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It’s getting dangerous around my way.
Roads and roundabouts blocked forcing all traffic to minor roads and through tiny villages.

The department’s road men were out with loading shovels yesterday clearing some roundabouts so trucks could get round them.

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I don’t disagree with you 105.4 but it’s partly like this because the majority of people are happy with the current system.
High streets are struggling because of the rise of internet shopping,as you know.
Farming is the same,until there is a shift in people’s attitude to their relationship with supermarkets it won’t change.

The French want a free market but the Government to pick up the tab when it gets tough,just like the fking viticulteurs. They get paid out for bad harvests due to weather,frost,rain or even too much sun. They get paid out if they overproduce because the population are drinking less red wine.

France looks like a free market economy but the people need the state to be their socialist security blanket.