How to protest French Style

[oracleslave]

This can never happen here because you English are nothing more than sheep...you tow the line trotted out to you by the government every time.

Sure, you might whinge and moan and whinge BUT at the end of the day, you English are so fat that none of you can be bothered to get off your arses to protest.

Anyway, those poll tax protesters from maggies day must all be rolling in their graves now, see how inept you poms are today!

And to think, you buggers used to rule the world!

Mailman

Have a look at numbers 21 and 28 before you go postal again.

http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/200...orldfat_2.html

HTH.

[Mailman]

This can never happen here because you English are nothing more than sheep...you tow the line trotted out to you by the government every time.

Sure, you might whinge and moan and whinge BUT at the end of the day, you English are so fat that none of you can be bothered to get off your arses to protest.

Anyway, those poll tax protesters from maggies day must all be rolling in their graves now, see how inept you poms are today!

And to think, you buggers used to rule the world!

Mailman

[Archangel]

£2.50 per gallon = 55p per litre

Whoosh

[Ardesco]

I dunno, I think this thread is misleading.

I know everyone moans about the cost of petrol, but I seem to recall, when I was a lad, my dad filling up and it costing something like £2.50 a gallon !

I don't know what that is in litres or whatever they use, but it sure as heck sounded a lot compared to £1.50 or whatever the price is now.

£2.50 per gallon = 55p per litre

[NotAllThere]

I dunno, I think this thread is misleading.

I know everyone moans about the cost of petrol, but I seem to recall, when I was a lad, my dad filling up and it costing something like £2.50 a gallon !

I don't know what that is in litres or whatever they use, but it sure as heck sounded a lot compared to £1.50 or whatever the price is now.

If only they'd sell petrol by the decilitre, there'd be no issue. Who cares when the pump price is only 15p/dl.

[DodgyAgent]

Dodgy Agent - Where is the Iraq War mentioned in this thread?

I was referring to petrol price protest in 2000.

The price of fuel here in the UK is far tooo high and I am told by the summer we are going to be paying £1.50 a litre

Live with it or get a bike

[Board Game Geek]

Where is the Iraq War mentioned in this thread?

I dunno, I think this thread is misleading.

I know everyone moans about the cost of petrol, but I seem to recall, when I was a lad, my dad filling up and it costing something like £2.50 a gallon !

I don't know what that is in litres or whatever they use, but it sure as heck sounded a lot compared to £1.50 or whatever the price is now.

[KentPhilip]

Its the power of the unions init.

Why don't us contractors all form and join our own union, and if one of us doesn't get the rate rise we want then we all go on strike from our respective companies...

[oracleslave]

"LADIES and Gentlemen, here is the news. As expected, from 7am this morning, a line of local taxis blocked the A30 dual carriageway and brought morning commuters to a standstill for several hours. A spokesman for the taxi companies involved said it was a protest against the threat to their businesses by the possible introduction of more licences."

True or false?

Well, not true here, but very true indeed in the Brittany region of France.

This very thing happened only a couple of weeks ago. One of the busiest dual carriageways from Brest to everywhere else - their version of the A38 - was totally blocked by irate taxi drivers. And like many other such protests everyone, my sister-in-law included, knew exactly when it would happen.

You may recall how the French farmers are similarly organised. Issues centring on farm subsidies, the old matter of British beef imports, the power of Brussels and so on have all been the subject of protests of one kind or another. Remember how the roads to the ports were blocked by tractors and lorries?

In France, it seems that the farmers can drum up a protest like that in about 24 hours flat. They must have a superb communication network - matched only by our ability to get 300 small children collected from school gates in the unlikely event of 3.7cm of snow falling - which will inevitably bring the UK to a complete standstill for several weeks.

Read in full.....

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/display...=sidebarsearch

Can we blame Nieu Liemore for this?

[BrilloPad]

fathers 4 justice have considered similar - except need red goo to create a traffic jam. gets the media into a frenzy.

[Lambros]

Dodgy Agent - Where is the Iraq War mentioned in this thread?

I was referring to petrol price protest in 2000.

The price of fuel here in the UK is far tooo high and I am told by the summer we are going to be paying £1.50 a litre

[PRC1964]

What has this got to do with the Iraq war?

Quite, and what will it do to house prices?

[DodgyAgent]

"LADIES and Gentlemen, here is the news. As expected, from 7am this morning, a line of local taxis blocked the A30 dual carriageway and brought morning commuters to a standstill for several hours. A spokesman for the taxi companies involved said it was a protest against the threat to their businesses by the possible introduction of more licences."

True or false?

Well, not true here, but very true indeed in the Brittany region of France.

This very thing happened only a couple of weeks ago. One of the busiest dual carriageways from Brest to everywhere else - their version of the A38 - was totally blocked by irate taxi drivers. And like many other such protests everyone, my sister-in-law included, knew exactly when it would happen.

You may recall how the French farmers are similarly organised. Issues centring on farm subsidies, the old matter of British beef imports, the power of Brussels and so on have all been the subject of protests of one kind or another. Remember how the roads to the ports were blocked by tractors and lorries?

In France, it seems that the farmers can drum up a protest like that in about 24 hours flat. They must have a superb communication network - matched only by our ability to get 300 small children collected from school gates in the unlikely event of 3.7cm of snow falling - which will inevitably bring the UK to a complete standstill for several weeks.

Read in full.....

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/display...=sidebarsearch

What has this got to do with the Iraq war?

[Lambros]

"LADIES and Gentlemen, here is the news. As expected, from 7am this morning, a line of local taxis blocked the A30 dual carriageway and brought morning commuters to a standstill for several hours. A spokesman for the taxi companies involved said it was a protest against the threat to their businesses by the possible introduction of more licences."

True or false?

Well, not true here, but very true indeed in the Brittany region of France.

This very thing happened only a couple of weeks ago. One of the busiest dual carriageways from Brest to everywhere else - their version of the A38 - was totally blocked by irate taxi drivers. And like many other such protests everyone, my sister-in-law included, knew exactly when it would happen.

You may recall how the French farmers are similarly organised. Issues centring on farm subsidies, the old matter of British beef imports, the power of Brussels and so on have all been the subject of protests of one kind or another. Remember how the roads to the ports were blocked by tractors and lorries?

In France, it seems that the farmers can drum up a protest like that in about 24 hours flat. They must have a superb communication network - matched only by our ability to get 300 small children collected from school gates in the unlikely event of 3.7cm of snow falling - which will inevitably bring the UK to a complete standstill for several weeks.

Read in full.....

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/display...=sidebarsearch