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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 30, 2024 11:13:02 GMT
Operation Starve Paris: French farmers begin 'indefinite' tractor siege of the capital as it's warned the city only has THREE DAYS of food, Toulouse is 'cut off' and hay bales are used to build blockades. In recent weeks there has been a slew of protests in France, a major agricultural producer, by farmers angry about incomes, red tape and environmental policies they are demanding more protection against rising production costs and for an end to green net zero policies that they say are putting them out of business - linkIt started in Holland, spread to Germany and France, and even Farmers in Scotland have been protesting. Will English and Welsh farmers join the protests? Lets hope so. |
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Post by Orac on Jan 30, 2024 12:56:30 GMT
is there any plausible way this could have been caused by brexit?
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 30, 2024 15:59:49 GMT
Is this being covered much on this side of the channel? French farmers have completely blocked motorways and apparently they're serious about starving Paris in three days. Macron has sent his prime minister to plead with them but to no avail. They're not at all keen on this net zero lark. What's to be done?..
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 30, 2024 16:00:55 GMT
is there any plausible way this could have been caused by brexit? I have every confidence the EU are working on it... |
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Post by Bentley on Jan 30, 2024 16:50:54 GMT
is there any plausible way this could have been caused by brexit? I have every confidence the EU are working on it... Plus Oracle and the cut and paste monkey. |
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Post by borchester on Jan 30, 2024 21:08:25 GMT
Is this being covered much on this side of the channel? French farmers have completely blocked motorways and apparently they're serious about starving Paris in three days. Macron has sent his prime minister to plead with them but to no avail. They're not at all keen on this net zero lark. What's to be done?.. The first time I went to Paris I was 14 and greeted by the police clubbing French farmers.
It was fun,but after 60 plus years the excitement tends to abate a bit.
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Post by Dogburger on Feb 1, 2024 12:24:23 GMT
tractors have turned up in Brussels this morning , EU buildings defences include barbed wire fences and riot police with tear gas
They don't want green taxation thats for sure
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Post by Montegriffo on Feb 1, 2024 12:35:56 GMT
Operation Starve Paris: French farmers begin 'indefinite' tractor siege of the capital as it's warned the city only has THREE DAYS of food, Toulouse is 'cut off' and hay bales are used to build blockades. In recent weeks there has been a slew of protests in France, a major agricultural producer, by farmers angry about incomes, red tape and environmental policies they are demanding more protection against rising production costs and for an end to green net zero policies that they say are putting them out of business - linkIt started in Holland, spread to Germany and France, and even Farmers in Scotland have been protesting. Will English and Welsh farmers join the protests? Lets hope so. So now it's OK to obstruct traffic? Where are the calls for the police to act? What about people trying to get to work or ambulances taking patients to hospital? Obviously there's a big difference between what JSO are doing and what farmers are doing. You agree with the aims of one and not the other. |
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Post by Orac on Feb 1, 2024 14:31:04 GMT
If there were only twelve people blocking traffic with tractors, they would be arrested and charged. Clearly that approach is not practical here.
It looks a bit like an insurrection to me.
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Post by Montegriffo on Feb 1, 2024 14:54:14 GMT
If there were only twelve people blocking traffic with tractors, they would be arrested and charged. Clearly that approach is not practical here. It looks a bit like an insurrection to me. 70 were arrested yesterday. I don't hear anyone cheering the police though. Hoist the double standard. |
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Post by Orac on Feb 1, 2024 14:57:46 GMT
70? That's relatively quite a large number of people. There were cases in the uk with main roads blocked by 12 JSO people and the police refusing to act.
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Post by Pacifico on Feb 1, 2024 15:17:33 GMT
Operation Starve Paris: French farmers begin 'indefinite' tractor siege of the capital as it's warned the city only has THREE DAYS of food, Toulouse is 'cut off' and hay bales are used to build blockades. In recent weeks there has been a slew of protests in France, a major agricultural producer, by farmers angry about incomes, red tape and environmental policies they are demanding more protection against rising production costs and for an end to green net zero policies that they say are putting them out of business - linkIt started in Holland, spread to Germany and France, and even Farmers in Scotland have been protesting. Will English and Welsh farmers join the protests? Lets hope so. So now it's OK to obstruct traffic? Where are the calls for the police to act? What about people trying to get to work or ambulances taking patients to hospital? Obviously there's a big difference between what JSO are doing and what farmers are doing. You agree with the aims of one and not the other. If you are going to allow JSO to block the roads then you can't be surprised when other protest groups do the same. |
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Post by Montegriffo on Feb 1, 2024 17:39:26 GMT
So now it's OK to obstruct traffic? Where are the calls for the police to act? What about people trying to get to work or ambulances taking patients to hospital? Obviously there's a big difference between what JSO are doing and what farmers are doing. You agree with the aims of one and not the other. If you are going to allow JSO to block the roads then you can't be surprised when other protest groups do the same. I've never approved of JSO blocking roads and causing an obstruction. I only support legal protest. I don't think JSO are allowed to obstruct traffic anymore. The police were given extra powers to remove them and as far as I know they do. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Feb 1, 2024 18:50:05 GMT
I think that people are missing the point here: No farmers, no food.
Once the WEF have withdrawn or severely restricted farming land on "Environmental" grounds they will control the food supply.
Comply or starve will be their message. And there are many precedents for using starvation as a means of control.
And once again the "elites" will need to be removed by force. Interesting times are ahead.
And I support the European farmers for stealing a march on the establishment.
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Post by Vinny on Feb 1, 2024 23:27:19 GMT
I don't think it's ok to obstruct traffic.
I don't think it's ok to try destroying farming as a policy either.
There are seven million people in France who are dependent on foodbanks.
2.1 million in our country.
Get the availability of food up and the price down.
Subsidy has long been policy of both the EU and the UK, so, do what is necessary to make living affordable.
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