[News] The French Pension Protests

[FatSuperman]

Corrected your numbers slightly
My point is that the protests we do see in this country seem to be of the mindless 'look at me' variety by a small number of people. Take the idiots that protested about the environment by climbing on top of tube trains - they are actually inconveniencing the very people that are using the more sustainable forms of transport. The French would have protested by marching through the centre of a city disrupting the traffic instead.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big protester (the only protests I've joined were those against the former owners of our football club) but if you're going to do something do it properly

Not to be a pendant, but;

In fact, it's worse that - our government forces a hard Brexit on the country that demonstrably reduces living standards, and 26.54% of the country think it was done for their benefit, 24.6% do nothing about it except whinge on twitter, and the remaining 48.86% seemingly don't care either way*.

*Or are too young, too old, not registered, etc

 

[Chicken Run]

So, let me get this straight. French protesters, standing up for their rights, standing up to their government, wonderful they don't roll over like the Brits. Brits who do protest - twats.

Yep, that seems pretty straightforward...................

Roll over like the Brits? I seem to remember the French allegedly rolled over in the late 1930’s early 40’s

 

[GT49er]

Roll over like the Brits? I seem to remember the French allegedly rolled over in the late 1930’s early 40’s

Errmmm ....................... it's 2023 now.

 

[Lenny Rider]

So is this thread actually about a mass protest in France or that Lenny is in Paris ?

Didn’t take you long


I‘m in Paris with my wife and they closed the road due to a potential riot.

 

[Chicken Run]

Errmmm ....................... it's 2023 now.

I know right, it’s taken them that long to grow some big hairy bollocks

 

[Chicken Run]

Didn’t take you long


I‘m in Paris with my wife and they closed the road due to a potential riot.

The most romantic city in the world with your beautiful wife ( she actually is) and you’re on NSC giving us a running commentary on the protests, you can take the boy out of journalism but you’ll never take the journalist out of the boy

 

[Weststander]

We were directly affected by this flying to Paris on Sat 1 April. Our flight was delayed leaving Gatwick by a few hours, they said French ATC were striking over the pension reforms. Then at CDG, similarly, ground staff refused to attend to our plane for 20 minutes for the same reason.

The French have little private pension provision, it just was never their thing, making Macron’s reforms more painful.

The great and good of nsc who’ve comfortably retired in their 50’s (see retirement thread), that’s tricky in France.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Celebrating May Day?

 

[Lenny Rider]

Celebrating May Day?

The French Rozzers, like something out of a George Orwell novel

 

[LamieRobertson]

The French Rozzers, like something out of a George Orwell novel

….but then

France protests: More than 100 police hurt in May Day demonstrations

Almost 300 people are arrested across France in clashes with demonstrators angry at pension reforms.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The French Rozzers, like something out of a George Orwell novel

The Gendarmerie are military as opposed to the local police forces.

 

[Sepulveda]

Meanwhile, a fellow Italian in Paris 3 weeks ago :

 

[sparkie]

As I'm a bit uncertain of my retirement age at the moment, it has crossed my mind to link it to the retirement age in France. The age good enough for them is good enough for me.

The new age of 64 seems reasonable but I fully support their protests to keep it younger. Lol.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not quite prancing around a May pole is it?

 

[cunning fergus]

I suppose the difference is that the British "twats" tend to protest against stuff like environmental or animal rights issues. The public at large are more concerned with their living standards, pensions, cost of living and so on - and there isn't really a groundswell of support for any group that protests against any government that threatens those things. The last time we had that was the poll tax riots in the 80s!

In fact, it's worse that - our government forces a hard Brexit on the country that demonstrably reduces living standards, and a good third of the country think it was done for their benefit and the other two thirds do nothing about it except whinge on twitter.

It’s even worse than that, some people are so dim they can’t process what the effect of 895bn of QE would do to the British economy, especially at a time when we can’t produce all our own energy.

https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-...lity-for-crisis-former-governor-says-12617190

Fire up the National razor, we can start on the imbeciles first, then the BOE etc.