Diesel protest in france

gw80

So it seems the French have decided to protest by blocking all the highways at the access roundabouts after the government raised the tax on diesel, apparently it's quite serious, the government have the army on stand by for fear of the police joining the protest.
I'm sure the same would happen here if they raised the tax on fuel??

Allinall

gw80 wrote: »

So it seems the French have decided to protest by blocking all the highways at the access roundabouts after the government raised the tax on diesel, apparently it's quite serious, the government have the army on stand by for fear of the police joining the protest.
I'm sure the same would happen here if they raised the tax on fuel??

Why would it?

Taxes are necessary.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

They need to set fire to some sheep for the laugh

gozunda

Allinall wrote: »

Why would it?
Taxes are necessary.

2040 - 'grow' the population by one million people to increase the national tax base = more financial livestock

The Rape of Lucretia

One dead. 200 injured. I'm sure the organisers are proud though.

TallGlass

Allinall wrote: »

Taxes are necessary.

Cool, take my pay sir...

OldMrBrennan83

gw80 wrote: »

So it seems the French have decided to protest by blocking all the highways at the access roundabouts after the government raised the tax on diesel, apparently it's quite serious, the government have the army on stand by for fear of the police joining the protest.
I'm sure the same would happen here if they raised the tax on fuel??

No we'd just give out about it and do feck all.

JustAYoungLad

Allinall wrote: »

Why would it?

Taxes are necessary.

Man statists are the worse scum

Kevin Finnerty

First time ever actually thinking "have the French got it right?"

qwerty ui op

gw80 wrote: »

So it seems the French have decided to protest by blocking all the highways at the access roundabouts after the government raised the tax on diesel, apparently it's quite serious, the government have the army on stand by for fear of the police joining the protest.
I'm sure the same would happen here if they raised the tax on fuel??

If it was that big a deal they'd be more about it, on the telly.

Ronaldinho

Well, they have a point. People were incentivised by Govt to buy diesel cars over petrol due to supposedly lower emissions. Now they're getting rode, and not in a good way.

Grab All Association

I drive a 2.0l petrol bit ches. I’m not a loser in a Kia nor a farmer. Yes I pay more for fuel and road tax but at least I have a car that would leave your glorified tractors to dust.

Also one diesel car is gayer than the boards.ie moderators convention and we all know the mods are super gay.


Sorry mods but you know it’s true.

colm_mcm

gw80 wrote: »

So it seems the French have decided to protest by blocking all the highways at the access roundabouts after the government raised the tax on diesel, apparently it's quite serious, the government have the army on stand by for fear of the police joining the protest.
I'm sure the same would happen here if they raised the tax on fuel??

The French are very good at protests. Apart from the water charges, we haven’t really done a proper protest in decades. Even when the whole IMF/Anglo mess was news, people just gave out but ultimately just got on with it.

artanevilla

The French do not fück when it comes to a protest.

NIMAN

Imagine dying over your right to a diesel car.

What a sad way to go.

Spanish Eyes

The death of even one person makes this awful, not to mind the injuries.

But every year we are at the mercy of their Air Traffic Controllers too. They must be millionaires by now.

Sad for the death and mayhem.

I am sure Emmanuel Macron will sort it out. There is something about him I just do not like. Not really sure why though.

gw80

qwerty ui op wrote: »

If it was that big a deal they'd be more about it, on the telly.

Yea, nothing to see here, move along.

dxhound2005

sugarman wrote: »

The French love a good strike/protest over absolutely anything, we could learn a lot from them.

"The French" held a big demonstration against the introduction of same sex marriage. More usually it is some sectional interest like French lorry drivers or French farmers, but they all seem to get labelled "The French"

I can't remember any water charges protests in France. They could learn a bit from The Irish.

suicide_circus

tu suces au diesel

Laois_Man

gw80 wrote: »

So it seems the French have decided to protest by blocking all the highways at the access roundabouts after the government raised the tax on diesel, apparently it's quite serious, the government have the army on stand by for fear of the police joining the protest.
I'm sure the same would happen here if they raised the tax on fuel??

We've already created a new diesel tax in the form of a 1% levy on all new or imported Diesel cars from 1/1/2019

artanevilla wrote: »

The French do not fück when it comes to a protest.

Remember a few years ago, they tore the **** out of the place over the retirement age being increased from 60 to 63. We did nothing when ours was raised to 68! Meanwhile we protested over the water charges that cost us pennies in comparison!

colm_mcm

Laois_Man wrote: »

We did nothing when ours was raised to 68! Meanwhile we protested over the water charges that cost us pennies in comparison!

Majority of water protesters retired at 17.

Canis Lupus

It's the french. When are those feckers NOT protesting.

dxhound2005

Laois_Man wrote: »

Remember a few years ago, they tore the **** out of the place over the retirement age being increased from 60 to 63. We did nothing when ours was raised to 68! Meanwhile we protested over the water charges that cost us pennies in comparison!

That's a good thing. You will be on full wages until age 68 instead of trying to live on a pension.

washman3

Have paver point issued any statement yet.?

dxhound2005

washman3 wrote: »

Have paver point issued any statement yet.?

Not that I heard. Nothing from the GAA either.

Skylinehead

Grab All Association wrote: »

I drive a 2.0l petrol bit ches. I’m not a loser in a Kia nor a farmer. Yes I pay more for fuel and road tax but at least I have a car that would leave your glorified tractors to dust.

Also one diesel car is gayer than the boards.ie moderators convention and we all know the mods are super gay.


Sorry mods but you know it’s true.

no u

nim1bdeh38l2cw

Ronaldinho wrote: »

Well, they have a point. People were incentivised by Govt to buy diesel cars over petrol due to supposedly lower emissions. Now they're getting rode, and not in a good way.

I didn't realise the Irish government incentivised French people to buy diesel cars too

nim1bdeh38l2cw

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I am sure Emmanuel Macron will sort it out. There is something about him I just do not like. Not really sure why though.

You fancy his wife don't you?

washman3

washman3 wrote: »

Have paver point issued any statement yet.?

Nothing to do with green diesel so they don’t give a fiddlers.

nice_guy80

washman3 wrote: »

Have paver point issued any statement yet.?

They usually go after the Kerosene out at the back of the house

pure.conya

colm_mcm wrote: »

gw80 wrote: »

So it seems the French have decided to protest by blocking all the highways at the access roundabouts after the government raised the tax on diesel, apparently it's quite serious, the government have the army on stand by for fear of the police joining the protest.
I'm sure the same would happen here if they raised the tax on fuel??

The French are very good at protests. Apart from the water charges, we haven’t really done a proper protest in decades. Even when the whole IMF/Anglo mess was news, people just gave out but ultimately just got on with it.

Irish water is still "operating" and still costing us a fortune

gctest50

NIMAN wrote: »

Imagine dying over your right to a diesel car.

What a sad way to go.

Rudolf Diesel went off out on a ship and killed himself. Bit odd really

gctest50

pure.conya wrote: »

Irish water is still "operating" and still costing us a fortune

Well, who else is going to take away all the sewerage ?

Don't see many protests about that

cournioni

Proper order. Nothing wrong with diesel.

gctest50

cournioni wrote: »

Proper order. Nothing wrong with diesel.

in a truck

JustAYoungLad

dxhound2005 wrote: »

"The French" held a big demonstration against the introduction of same sex marriage. More usually it is some sectional interest like French lorry drivers or French farmers, but they all seem to get labelled "The French"

I can't remember any water charges protests in France. They could learn a bit from The Irish.

I remember reading about the French Revolution. Just common people getting fed up by oligarchs, landlords and high taxes. They dragged them out the streets into the guillotines.

People today are too docile unfortunately

Mr. teddywinkles

colm_mcm wrote: »

Majority of water protesters retired at 17.

Nah we just rather introduce a progressive tax. And privatise it. Dumb dismissive bollixoligy. But hey keep up the good fight there. Pay moooore tax

nim1bdeh38l2cw

pure.conya wrote: »

Irish water is still "operating" and still costing us a fortune

Let's wind them up, along with cutting off your water inlet and sewage outlet so.

Richard Hillman

The protest is a backlash from all this carbon tax stuff that has been getting loaded on us by the EU and the UN.

I think it's time to actually time to address the "climate change" theory and if we actually care about it. When we really drill down to it, do we really care about so called climate change or is it just a media thing? I don't think the general public care about it enough to drastically reduce their living standards. Reducing our carbon emissions is just one of those things that we'd like but can live peacefully without it. Like a 4k television or a sky sports subscription

pure.conya

gctest50 wrote: »

pure.conya wrote: »

Irish water is still "operating" and still costing us a fortune

Well, who else is going to take away all the sewerage ?

Don't see many protests about that

Amora Loose Commando wrote: »

pure.conya wrote: »

Irish water is still "operating" and still costing us a fortune

Let's wind them up, along with cutting off your water inlet and sewage outlet so.

Here's a novel idea, how about we fund the local authorities and allow them to maintain the essential services like they did for a long long time, our water system was deliberately let go to $hit so that our politicians could lie that privatisation was the only way to fix it

nice_guy80

pure.conya wrote: »

gctest50 wrote: »

pure.conya wrote: »

Irish water is still "operating" and still costing us a fortune

Well, who else is going to take away all the sewerage ?

Don't see many protests about that

Amora Loose Commando wrote: »

pure.conya wrote: »

Irish water is still "operating" and still costing us a fortune

Let's wind them up, along with cutting off your water inlet and sewage outlet so.

Here's a novel idea, how about we fund the local authorities and allow them to maintain the essential services like they did for a long long time, our water system was deliberately let go to $hit so that our politicians could lie that privatisation was the only way to fix it

I agree
More jobs for the boys in local authorities

_Kaiser_

nice_guy80 wrote: »

I agree
More jobs for the boys in local authorities

As opposed to the cushy jobs in IW for failure County managers at the time, or contracts for a company associated with you know who.. Company which also got a massive debt write-off.

Let's not pretend IW was any sort of reform of the system. It's an expensive and unnecessary administrative layer. A billing agency which doesn't even do that thanks to the entirely justified protests. It has no reason for being at this point.

whisky_galore

The only sets of protesters here that the govt is actually scared of are farmers and the 'wrinklies' as Ivan Yeats calls them.

IW protestors as well I guess, but since the whole IW premise was built on sand and you could just ignore your bill without consequence...well then..

pure.conya

whisky_galore wrote: »

The only sets of protesters here that the govt is actually scared of are farmers and the 'wrinklies' as Ivan Yeats calls them.

Fact

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2013/1022/481958-pensioners-protest-2008/

whiskeyman

Canis Lupus wrote: »

It's the french. When are those feckers NOT protesting.

Can't remember much of a protest in 1940...


Guess they're making up for it since.