France fuel protests: Macron calls urgent security meeting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46417991
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France fuel protests: Macron calls urgent security meeting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46417991
Argh, the beauty and soul of liberation.
This is what they call an echo chamber.
Carry on...
French government's folded on the fuel tax rise. Will the protesters be appeased or was that proposed tax just the catalyst for their discontent?
France fuel protests: PM Philippe 'to halt fuel tax rise': https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur...alflow_twitter
I predict a brioche...
They are the best (health safety ) conscious protesters I've seen , setting fires ,throwing missiles , endangering people all very acceptable, within the confines of a safety high visibility vest .
:shrug:
Are we sure that its just all about the price of a gallon?
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Some nasty vids featuring police brutality in France last Saturday can be found. One where they tipped a disabled bloke out of his wheelchair, another of dragging a woman by her hair along the street. Manny Macron promised more concessions earlier but he looked like someone whose time is up.
First video here show 'em dragging the woman. http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=143871
It is evident that people are not sitting and waiting and not allowed to push you around
Kicked off again today.
So what are the French really kicking off against?, is it socialism and the high taxes, TBF their infrastructure is far bar than that of the UK or is it Globalism, climate change, plastic, greenhouse gasses etc. etc. or is it the French just like a ruck and will demo against anyone and anything just for the hell of it ?
No, he is quite the opposite.
Is this you?
https://youtu.be/3252FSW7OC4
An interesting article with greater insight as to why the yellow vest movement persists: France: Understanding the Gilets Jaunes Uprising
• The French state has been bankrupt since 2004. A minister finally admitted it in 2013.
• French GDP hasn’t risen above 2% in 50 years. Yes - FIFTY. The average annual GDP growth rate between 1949-2018? 0.78%.
• In 2018, 14% of the population in France live below the poverty line (they earn less than 60% of the median income).
• Worse, more than 50% of French people have an annual income of less than €20,150 a year (about $1,900 US per month).
• The 'official' unemployment rate is 10% - about 3.5 million citizens (in reality, it's much higher).
• The youth unemployment rate is 22%. Yes, you did read that right.
• Astonishing but true: the French government employs 25% of the entire French workforce...and it's impossible to fire them.
More - https://quodverum.com/2018/12/344/fr...-uprising.html
Did you check any of these "facts" before you regurgitated them or whether trends are getting better or worse? Some of the stats you quoted are not pretty but in a number of areas the trends are in the right direction and don't explain the "why now" on the gillets jaunes. The GDP stat is just bollocks.
https://tradingeconomics.com/france/unemployment-rate
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator...-GB&start=1967
I didn't check them, Cyril. I did post a graph in another thread last month showing that the French have become the most taxed of the OECD countries (https://www.wsj.com/articles/france-...try-1544004004) with the data compiled by the OECD itself, and from what I've heard the protesters say they've had enough of the tax burden.