I'm all for moving to the American system where everyone fends for themselves.
But when you've paid extortionate tax for years and then the script gets flipped I understand why the french are angry.
The French and UK really aren't comparable on this topic.
French wages are so low and taxes are so high, but they have so many social benefits compared to the UK.
Literally in France if you lose your job the state pays you your previous wage up to 2.5k euros per month for up to 2 years whilst you look for other work.
The French are scared all these things are being taken away from them and they are still left with ****ty wages and high taxes.
That is why they fight.

That's so weird, that firefighter looks like a child.

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I think the French are great, they protest for their rights, here in the UK we are far too passive. I turn 50 this year and I can access a pension as I was in it before they made the reforms that allowed you to access your private pension at 55, now they are thinking this is a bad idea as alot of people are retiring early so from 2028 that will rise to 57 ...and it will continue to rise

He/she might be as they have to work for 45 years plus to get a state pension :laugh:

the average french peasant is completely insane. This is only going to go one way, and Macron seriously better watch out

this is Paris today :laugh: LT was asking what the point was in face masks .... well here is a brilliant example of their use

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...paris.jpg.webp

this weekend will be wild.

Yesterday they Smashed the McDonald's
in Paris
and two Supermarkets.


https://www.businessinsider.in/thumb...o-station-.jpg
One Punk there, brought a Club Hammer

Also Burning Cars - no need for that
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...kzDAg&usqp=CAU

Thugs hijacking the protest, damaging property and putting people out of work is not what most protesters want to do

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03...9678124899.jpg

French Writing : Death to the King

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03...9679300523.jpg
[On the ninth day of rioting, more chilling graffiti directly
addressed the King in English,
reading 'Charles III, do you know the guillotine?']

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...buildings.html

They also Smashed up a Starbucks

thats no bad thing

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BBC Text :[The FT Weekend leads on a fiery image
of the "turmoil in France" as Bordeaux's town hall
was set on fire in a protest over pensions.
The unrest has continued as Emmanuel Macron has
doubled down on the government's plan
to raise the pension age from 62 to 64.]

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French President Emmanuel Macron has been criticised after he removed a luxury watch during an interview about pension changes.

France is gripped by protests and strikes over Mr Macron's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

Mr Macron's representatives said the president took off the watch because it was "clinking on the table".

But his critics have claimed the watch shows he is out of touch with the public.

Some wrongly claimed it was worth up to €80,000 ($86,000; £70,000), but the Élysée Palace said this was not correct.

The incident happened part way through an interview on Wednesday, when Mr Macron was justifying his reasons for lifting the pension age.

As he rested his forearms on the table, a thud could be heard.

The president then placed his hands under the table as he continued talking. When he brought them back up, the watch had been removed.

His team insisted the removal was entirely innocent. But the missing timepiece quickly drew his critics' attention.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp..._comp.jpg.webp

Little is said about our own UK retirement age.

It was raised to 66 a few years ago, and in 2028 it will be raised again to 67.

Why raised twice in such a short space of time?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03...9697793860.jpg

French Bin men/women strike

In France
it's not like the UK.

They now have a young underclass
who go along and smash Windows
and start fires.


Their Petrol is too High to buy now.



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