Yellow vests - fuel protest day of action in France

Yellow vests - fuel protest day of action in France

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turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Monday 13th January 2020
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jsf said:
mike74 said:
Great to see there are some people in the world who will stand up for their rights.

Unlike the compliant, obedient little debt slave worker drones of the UK, more worried about keeping up the repayments on their overpriced Help To Buy slaveboxes and PCP'd Audis.
And yet the UK population continues to grow by the 100's of thousands each year due to people wanting to come and work like obedient little debt slaves. Or maybe the UK offers more than that.......

Isn't London the 2nd largest city by population of French citizens, only Paris is larger numbers?
After M Hollande hopped along, a number of wealthier Parisiens legged it across la manche to Londres asafp, resulting in EAs hiring more French speakers. Would these expats be keen to return for Macron, brexit or not?

tangerine_sedge

4,699 posts

217 months

Monday 13th January 2020
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REALIST123 said:
mike74 said:
Great to see there are some people in the world who will stand up for their rights.

Unlike the compliant, obedient little debt slave worker drones of the UK, more worried about keeping up the repayments on their overpriced Help To Buy slaveboxes and PCP'd Audis.
We must assume you weren't around in the 70s, when the 'sick man of Europe' had millions of 'workers' standing up for their rights and fking up the country completely.

Just as is happening now in l'homme malade de l'Europe.............
This. If this was the labour party organising these marches demanding the same working conditions here in the UK, then the PH swear filter would explode and the forum servers would be on fire with the number of outraged postings.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Monday 13th January 2020
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tangerine_sedge said:
REALIST123 said:
mike74 said:
Great to see there are some people in the world who will stand up for their rights.

Unlike the compliant, obedient little debt slave worker drones of the UK, more worried about keeping up the repayments on their overpriced Help To Buy slaveboxes and PCP'd Audis.
We must assume you weren't around in the 70s, when the 'sick man of Europe' had millions of 'workers' standing up for their rights and fking up the country completely.

Just as is happening now in l'homme malade de l'Europe.............
This. If this was the labour party organising these marches demanding the same working conditions here in the UK, then the PH swear filter would explode and the forum servers would be on fire with the number of outraged postings.
It started with proposed price hikes from increased fuel duty because Macron le Magnifique wanted to show Trump how to do green taxation and save the world (which Gordon Brown had already saved, so pointless). As we know, that worked out well. The proposals were shelved within days and Macron disappeared for a while.

How about Labour Party activists following suit, protesting for cheap fuel/energy, then checking out how PH servers are getting on? The hamsters would be working a three day week, which reminds me of the 70s and the last-but-one disaster of a Labour government.

The ultimate yellow vest answer was 42 (basically demands to shift taxation and cost-of-living burdens from rural poor to metropolitan suits) similar to a certain guide to the galaxy and not so different from the blue wall where traditional Labour voters gave up and protested via the ballot box. That worked out well too. Vive l'incompétence de la gauche anglaise.

Abbott

2,339 posts

202 months

Monday 13th January 2020
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From what I see here in Paris is that Parisiens are not particularly interested in the strikes etc. It causes some disruption and occasionally some one will be badly disturbed otherwise its normal life. As for the police action, like London the marchers are supposed to stick to previously declared routes etc. Unlike London if they deviate the Police hit them very hard.

zbc

849 posts

150 months

Thursday 16th January 2020
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Abbott said:
From what I see here in Paris is that Parisiens are not particularly interested in the strikes etc. It causes some disruption and occasionally some one will be badly disturbed otherwise its normal life. As for the police action, like London the marchers are supposed to stick to previously declared routes etc. Unlike London if they deviate the Police hit them very hard.
And the story from outside of Paris is that it doesn't have much impact. My commute is slightly harder as a few more people are now on the roads as some of the trains aren't running. I still haven't seen any demonstrations and certainly no rioting. My son came home from Paris as his University exams were cancelled due to strikes there but he had no problems getting a TGV at short notice to get home that ran on time and was half empty. Paris and the rest of France is much the same story as London and the rest of the UK as far as most media is concerned.

Thom

1,716 posts

246 months

Thursday 16th January 2020
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The public transports work more or less again, almost back to normal. I suppose they have been careful not to paralyse everybody for too long to keep the public opinion on their side, and most strikers are back at work because they just can't afford anymore not earning they salary. The ultra liberal scum tearing French institutions apart while hiding behind a pretended progressist skirt seem to be winning. Let's see how far things will keep spiralling down, first with the French NHS and then the rest.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Thursday 16th January 2020
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Thom said:
The public transports work more or less again, almost back to normal. I suppose they have been careful not to paralyse everybody for too long to keep the public opinion on their side, and most strikers are back at work because they just can't afford anymore not earning they salary. The ultra liberal scum tearing French institutions apart while hiding behind a pretended progressist skirt seem to be winning. Let's see how far things will keep spiralling down, first with the French NHS and then the rest.
Neatly put. I've offered the view that in the UK things will get worse before they get better. Some encouraging signs have emerged including Boris helping the airline FlyBe - and others - by reviewing air passenger duty so that it's not just the rich (and environmentalist activists / green religion preachers) who can afford to fly.

Earthdweller

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13,432 posts

125 months

Tuesday 28th January 2020
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And just when you think it couldn’t get any stranger in France ...

Police fighting firefighters!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7938937/F...

https://www.france24.com/en/20200128-french-police...

Edited by Earthdweller on Tuesday 28th January 18:10

Red 4

10,744 posts

186 months

Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Earthdweller said:
And just when you think it couldn’t get any stranger in France ...

Police fighting firefighters!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7938937/F...
There is a history of this ... It goes as far back as the 80's/ 90's.

The CRS get bored eventually and break out the water cannon.

Earthdweller

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Pitre

4,492 posts

233 months

Sunday 9th February 2020
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Abbott said:
The view of my French colleagues: "France is crazy, we moan about wanting change, we elect a President away from the political norms to deliver change then we go on strike when there is any attempt to impliment change"
Absolutely true. I live in France and it's unbelievable the way it (doesn't) work... rolleyes