Trouble In Paradise......part N.

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1859298/calais-french-port-freight-truckers-uk-farmers-protest

Yes UK has stopped paying, you need to pay more, get used to it or you can also leave.

[youngmafbog]

Seems one of the farmers gripes is the 'paperwork' at the border.  Well as I remember it the EU were the ones wanting all that.

TTT, sadly for the French leaving is a difficult option.  Firstly they dont have Sir Nige and so will never get a referendum and secondly even if they did and voted out being tied into the Euro would make things extremely difficult.

Mind you a couple of years back I was working for an International Bank that still maintained the modules for processing Francs (and the others) in thier High value payments system.

[JACKSON-REACHER]

Why do you constantly blame the EU for something which is a domestic policy of the French Government ?

French people/farmers are not being asked to pay more into the EU agricultural budget because the UK has left the group.

They are being asked to lower their prices to help keep inflation low. Completely different argument.

[ToraToraTora]

13:42 gromit, they are protesting over tax increases, one of the reasons for those is that France like all other EUSSR countries now have to pay more into the pot becasue the UK is now not paying in.  Ain't rocket is it?

[JACKSON-REACHER]

Nothing at all to do with the Common Agricultural Policy or the EU budget.

//  "There is a general feeling of being fed up," Arnaud Gaillot, the head of the Young Farmers (Jeunes Agriculteurs) union told France 2 television, after farmers blocked roads in parts of France last week, in action similar to widespread protests by farmers in Germany.

Farmers cite a government tax on tractor fuel, cheap imports, water storage issues, price pressures from retailers and red tape among their grievances. //

Instead of rejoicing that French farmers are not happy, why are you not trumpeting the satisfaction of British farmers now they are outside the EUs juristiction ?

[ToraToraTora]

Well this is news and the news is the French farmers.

[jno]

British farmers are in trouble too but meekly accepting their lot (apart from grumbling to the Telegraph)

https://archive.ph/cMU3J