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Old 08-12-2018, 15:28   #1
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Following Tourist Attractions are current closed/in Lockdown.
  • The Eiffel Tower
  • The Louvre Museum
  • Musee d'Orsay
  • Centre Pompidou
  • Paris Metro stations
  • Paris opera
  • le Grand Palais
  • Musée l'Orangerie

Thousands to protest against government in France. Paris attractions including Louvre and Eiffel Tower locked down - Hundreds of arrests made before 10am - 89,000 security members deployed - 8,000 of them in Paris
https://news.sky.com/story/live-more...rance-11574773
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

The French certainly don't mess around that is for sure.
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

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The French certainly don't mess around that is for sure.
Nope, in general our politicians can do almost anything they want and people will passively accept it. However, if milk goes up by a penny, the French rise up against it!

Is this because we are too soft or because we behave in a more civilised fashion??
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

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Nope, in general our politicians can do almost anything they want and people will passively accept it. However, if milk goes up by a penny, the French rise up against it!

Is this because we are too soft or because we behave in a more civilised fashion??
It's because we're too apathetic.
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It's because we're too apathetic.
Many can't even be bothered to be apathetic
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Many can't even be bothered to be apathetic
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

That will be nothing like what will happen should be stop brexit.
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

And it's worked!

It's just been announced via a televised address in France that the minimum wage will be increased and some planned tax rises will not now go ahead.

It was also admitted by the Government that anger about this was "deep and justified".
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

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And it's worked!

It's just been announced via a televised address in France that the minimum wage will be increased and some planned tax rises will not now go ahead.

It was also admitted by the Government that anger about this was "deep and justified".
The militant French usually get their way in the end.
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

The French, bless ’em, they love their socialist country, they love all socialist stuff......

However, when it is proposed that to pay for all that good socialist stuff, they will have to pay more tax, all hell breaks loose.

This my learned friends is yet another example of why socialism doesn’t work. It’s great on paper, but when people realise that they have to pay for it, the concept of the haves and have nots all living together in harmony goes out the Effin window.

Suddenly it’s “ why am I paying for you?”

Politics can’t trump human nature.
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

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The militant French usually get their way in the end.
Yup, whilst we just take whatever is thrown at us, though I think that Brexit could be an exception whichever way it goes.

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The French, bless ’em, they love their socialist country, they love all socialist stuff......

However, when it is proposed that to pay for all that good socialist stuff, they will have to pay more tax, all hell breaks loose.

This my learned friends is yet another example of why socialism doesn’t work. It’s great on paper, but when people realise that they have to pay for it, the concept of the haves and have nots all living together in harmony goes out the Effin window.

Suddenly it’s “ why am I paying for you?”

Politics can’t trump human nature.
Yep, humans are very selfish creatures, until whatever they want to be cut to lower their taxes affects them personally. Then it's different all of a sudden. I've seen this happen so many times in life.
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Re: Paris in Lockdown due to Protests

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The French, bless ’em, they love their socialist country, they love all socialist stuff......

However, when it is proposed that to pay for all that good socialist stuff, they will have to pay more tax, all hell breaks loose.

This my learned friends is yet another example of why socialism doesn’t work. It’s great on paper, but when people realise that they have to pay for it, the concept of the haves and have nots all living together in harmony goes out the Effin window.

Suddenly it’s “ why am I paying for you?”

Politics can’t trump human nature.
France isn't socialist, not sure where you've got that idea from.
The Government tends to hold more strategic stakes in companies compared to the UK but that's been reducing under Macron.
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France isn't socialist, not sure where you've got that idea from.
The Government tends to hold more strategic stakes in companies compared to the UK but that's been reducing under Macron.
They tend to get up on their hind legs far more and complain while the British generally are far more reserved in their approach.
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They tend to get up on their hind legs far more and complain while the British generally are far more reserved in their approach.
It would be a foolish government that felt it could rely on that and railroad their policies through, despite being unpopular, and expect the population to remain supine. In this age of social media groundswell can become street demo's and riots in no time.
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