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mousjoos
Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 1986 Location: VERY Sunny SW France
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Ty Gwyn
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mousjoos
Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 1986 Location: VERY Sunny SW France
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Shan
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mousjoos
Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 1986 Location: VERY Sunny SW France
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 19 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Most folks here work for the SMIC which is a sort of minimum wage...that's most manual jobs, shop assisstants etc, who are mostly "unqualified".
The main grievance for example with the Gilets Jaunes (not to be confused with the nutjob Yellow Vests in UK) was/is the rising cost of living / subsisting, compared to wages of the majority of workers.
Coluche famously joked about the "end of the month" being the 4th (or 5th...whatever)...that is to say that payday being the 1st (if you're lucky,) by the 4th, your money's gone.
Many French believe the real culprit to be the introduction of the Euro; at which point, prices increased almost overnight, by all accounts.
These same people experienced a better standard of living then, than now.
Macron's part appears to be that he is making life "easier" for the rich, & even harder for the poor.
It's a long & reasonably uncomplicated subject...but I'm not sure the internet is big enough to accommodate a post giving full details. |
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Ty Gwyn
Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 4610 Location: Lampeter
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mousjoos
Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 1986 Location: VERY Sunny SW France
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 19 8:30 am Post subject: |
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A week or so ago, a news presenter admitted for the first time that the GJ's had been infiltrated by extremists, of both the left & the right.
Weeks earlier, a spokesperson for the police authority said that they "recognised" certain known activists...but just let them carry on smashing stuff, presumably to undermine the otherwise peaceful protests; & to influence public opinion away from the GJ's.
Unfortunately, it's escalated & folks are losing patience.
In the last few days, they've started to implicate the GJ's in the rise of road deaths, due to damaged speed cameras...ths is of course, utter bollocks as they stated in the same news report that people were still using their phones whilst driving, & that the certain of the roads were accidents blackspots. |
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Lorrainelovesplants
Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 6521 Location: Dordogne
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Shan
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Lorrainelovesplants
Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 6521 Location: Dordogne
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dpack
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Lorrainelovesplants
Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 6521 Location: Dordogne
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sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 42219 Location: North Devon
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46168 Location: yes
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Lorrainelovesplants
Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 6521 Location: Dordogne
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