"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.....
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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
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