Petrol pumps have been running dry in France as striking energy workers disrupt deliveries. As frustration mounts among motorists, businesses and beyond, President Emmanuel Macron has called for calm. On Friday morning a queue hundreds of metres long snaked out from a petrol station in the suburbs of Paris. “We’ve been waiting for an hour,” said one motorist, whose car was already running on empty. “The queue hasn’t moved at all. I don’t know what we are supposed to do.” https://www.france24.com/en/europe/...stration-for-motorists-anxiety-for-government
Macron the Tory PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A group of French intellectuals including Nobel literature prize winner Annie Ernaux on Sunday urged people to join protests planned by the left for next week, accusing President Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to help the poor cope with high prices while some companies make windfall profits. "Emmanuel Macron is using inflation to widen the wealth gap, to boost capital income at the expense of the rest", the group of 69 signatories, including writers, film directors and university teachers, said in a text published in the Journal Du Dimanche.
On life support: can France's struggling healthcare system be saved? "It's pretty catastrophic" "We don’t have the adequate structure, neither the adequate conditions, nor the adequate tools, or enough staff. It's getting complicated.” That was the picture Maxime Bartolini painted for me. The young accident and emergency nurse works at the Fréjus St. Raphaël hospital, on the French Riviera. He had the look of someone who had been through a lot. "We’ve been working at a sustained, high pace, since December," he explained. "The closure of the secondary hospital departments at night, it’s meant we’ve had to reorganise. The ambulances are also overwhelmed. It's a danger for the patient, and we're overloaded. We do more than our duties, we help each other. We do what we can, but now we're running out of solutions, it's pretty catastrophic." https://www.euronews.com/2022/07/08...frances-struggling-healthcare-system-be-saved
Protesters marched on Saturday against soaring inflation and the rising cost of living in western Germany. Gathering in the city center of Cologne, hundreds of protesters chanted: "Enough is enough: Prices have to fall." Protesting against risinginflation, especially in energy prices, demonstrators called on the authorities tackle to this issue and take measure. Protesters emphasized that tens of thousands of people were driven into poverty due to rising prices and that many could not pay their gas and electricity bills, while many opportunists, especially energy companies, are taking advantage of this situation. The demonstrators demanded that recent hikes in gas prices be withdrawn, and that an upper limit be introduced for increases in rent. The also asked for an increase in pensions and social benefits, as well as the re-introduction of cheap transportation tickets at €9 (about $8.80). https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/pro...ing-cost-of-living-in-western-germany/2700332
There are still plenty of people who still believe we are the only country who wanted to leave the EU.
There are still plenty of people who still believe we are the only country stupid enough to leave the EU.
Only the Tories are making policies and implementing them. Whatever some Liberal MP is doing doesn't affect people's lives. Or is 'a weak opposition' to blame for everything ....
The main reason people wanted to leave was that they didn't want to be governed by a bunch of selfish, useless buffoons who are out of touch with the British people ... ... the words frying pan and fire spring to mind At least there were a series of controls in Europe, the present government is totally out of control and no one can stop them lurching from one crisis to another.
At least it’s better only having one set of buffoons to worry about, and of course you can vote them out
I still believe Murdochs press manipulated the population as they've been rumored to have been behind countless elections. But to what benefit I'm not sure. I'd like us to have another referendum, but where does that take us? Just like our fellow Scots who are unhappy with their referendum, when do you call it a day. We need an independent review into how better off we are for leaving, just like the Scots for staying. I voted stay but happy to hear from anyone who can outline the benefits of where we are today.
They're so narrow minded about their politics they choose what to ignore... like the posts above showing the rest of Europe are going through the same struggles as they're crying about. That doesn't suit their agenda, though.
Nobody voted the present lot in tbh, it's government by 'last man standing'. There's no way out of this because Truss wouldn't dare call an election and the Tories won't kick her out. We're stuck with her no matter how useless she becomes ... ... not that she can get much worse.
But we can kick her out though. She has roughly 2 years to turn things round before we never hear from her again or she does and we should be very happy
Plenty of people did. We elected the Conservatives to govern and unless I've missed something that is what's happening.
