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Pension age rise

Graham_Devon
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It's bizzare...
Our pension ages rise, and basically we have a whinge and a moan, call politicians some names, then bend over and accept the inevitable.
France, on the other hand...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11563423
Or are we just push overs?
Our pension ages rise, and basically we have a whinge and a moan, call politicians some names, then bend over and accept the inevitable.
France, on the other hand...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11563423
Are we more realistic?French truck drivers are the latest group of workers to join the strike movement against government plans to reform the state pension system.
They have staged several overnight protests, including a go-slow on motorways near Lille, Paris and Lyon.
More than 1,000 supermarket petrol stations have run out of fuel, their industry association has said.
The government wants to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 and the full state pension age from 65 to 67.
A further day of strikes is scheduled for Tuesday. The Senate is due to vote on the pensions bill on Wednesday.
Or are we just push overs?
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Push overs.
If there's one thing the French do with gusto, it's protest.
Whereas, we're all like 'oh that's jolly indecent, I'm really browned off! I'm going to have biscuit and think it over.'0 -
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Graham_Devon wrote: »Or are we just push overs?
Well the French didn't put up much of a fight in 1940 did they? I think one decent Panzer regiment is all that Sarcozy needs.:)0 -
It doesn't bode well for Sarcozy -
History of French protests
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4865034.stm
'1995: PENSION REFORM Crippling strikes and mass protests forced Prime Minister Alain Juppe's government to abandon pensions reforms.
The proposals included pension reforms, a new tax to repay welfare debt, raising hospital patients' fees and tying hospital spending to the inflation rate, a special charge on pharmaceutical companies and on doctors, and freezing family allowances the following year and taxing them a year later.'
Oh dear!
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This is the type of the thing that makes france one of the best countries in the world."The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
Albert Einstein0 -
Maggie didnt get away with the poll tax rise as far as I remember.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
Dunno why all the tadpoles are protesting - they're going to have to pay in the long run (unless they con us out of a shedload more money on EC subsidies)0
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Maggie didnt get away with the poll tax rise as far as I remember.
Which was a damned shame - it could have been a far fairer way of raising local revenue that what replaced it.
It just needed more thought on safeguards for cases where people genuinely could not afford their share.0 -
I've always admired the French for the passion they put into standing up for their rights.
Apart from the miners strikes and pole tax protests I've never seen us Brits have the gusto do to sod all.0 -
Which was a damned shame - it could have been a far fairer way of raising local revenue that what replaced it.
It just needed more thought on safeguards for cases where people genuinely could not afford their share.
They were screwing us something rotten.
I remember our rates were £85 a month for the household.
We had a poll tax put on us of £76 a month for each adult,so for me and my husband that almost doubled our rates
How was that fair.
How could councils suddenly justify taking almost double what had been rates payments from the same household for the same period.
Someone must have been raking it in.
It might have worked if they had'nt been stupid enough to try and shaft us from the start.0
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