Chaos in France

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

which are impossible to destroy

There's a challenge

Besides which, one does not have to destroy them to render them non-functional

[AtomKraft]

Ben.
Just for the record, we agree on this too.

[OFSO]

Against the wishes of the government, the French energy regulator is raising the price of electricity by 5.9% from this summer. This will not go down well with consumers.

[OFSO]

Paris riots as usual today, cars and motorbikes set on fire, trees ripped down, windows broken. 5000 police in central Paris. Protestors furious at money to be spent on Nôtre Dame.

[BenThere]

Would it not be better to ransack the banlieus like St. Denis and torch things?

[Slasher]

Protestors furious at money to be spent on Nôtre Dame.

This is why I've always suspected a lot of the protesters are ismlamcs, probably Pakis. They love to torch cars, bitch about churches and join in demos for just about anything.

[OFSO]

Most of the people arrested did not come from Ile-de-France, the local region. As far as non French nationals are concerned, several of the arrested demonstrators have already been deported from France. Fast work.

[OFSO]

My neighbour just arrived back from Paris. Told me that diesel on the autoroute is selling at €1.9 a litre. For those thinking in gallons that is somewhat over €8 a gallon. No wonder there has been a reduction in the number of French cars here in N Spain this year.

[G-CPTN]

Told me that diesel on the autoroute is selling at €1.9 a litre.

Who buys fuel on 'motorways'?

[Capetonian]

Good, let the Frogs stay in their own country and not defile others.

Restez chez vous, vous n'etes pas les bienvenues ailleurs., unless you actually want to work free of unionism and socialism to improve yourselves.

[OFSO]

True enough G-CPTN, all the froggies are using an app telling them where they can buy diesel at €1.48 off autoroute. Which of course means an extra trip off and back thru a toll booth. Queuing, of course. Interestingly TGV train tickets up to Paris have risen in price by 40%. We have now bought oldies discount cards. Themselves not cheap at €60 each but should save money over a year.
France really is being taxed to death.

[Capetonian]

France really is being taxed to death.

The price of pernicious and unsustainable socialism, now it is coming back to stab them in their yellow backs and they are bitching and moaning.

Tant pis, you nation of wankers.

[Capetonian]

'I didn’t expect to lose an eye on the world’s most beautiful avenue' - police brutality under the spotlight as Paris protests continue.
In ferocious scenes that shocked France and the world, the Champs-Elysées and other parts of Paris resembled war zones as rioters smashed shops and banks while burning dozens of vehicles, and police responded with tear gas but also stun grenades and rubber bullet “flash-balls” - weapons that would seem unthinkable in demonstrations in London.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/0 ... brutality/

[Capetonian]

I am rather sceptical of this. CDG and ORY are appalling, at least they were the last time I was unfortunate enough to have to use them, maybe 10 and 15 years ago respectively, definitely places to avoid.

I've used Montpellier a couple of times and Perpignan, both pleasant small airports.

Punctuality, or lack of, is not usually the fault of the airport.

Lisbon, rated 132/132 is far better than many other airports I've used recently, certainly better than that craphole just off the M1. Malta, Oporto, Gatwick, Bucharest (Henri Coanda previously known as Otopeni), and Eindhoven, all of which I've used in the last 5 years or so, deserve to be rated far higher than 'bottom 10'.

So it's a pretty crap survey.

French airports have been classed as among the worst in the world, with Paris-Orly taking 126th place on the list of 132 global airports, and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle taking 121st place.

The major issues in France included punctuality (for which French airports received an average score of 60%), service quality (20%) and the shopping and restaurant/refreshment options (20%).

Of all the French airports listed, Toulouse-Blagnac (Haute-Garonne, Occitanie) performed the best, taking 89th place in the ranking.

The 2019 list - the seventh annual ranking of its kind - was compiled by AirHelp, a company that specialises in airport passenger rights and compensation.

To score well, airports did not need to have any particularly stand-out features or unusual attractions; rather they were scored on straightforward, basic factors such as time performance, service quality, and food and shopping options.

The Hamad airport in Doha, Qatar, took the top spot; closely followed by Tokyo Haneda (Japan), and Athens (Greece).

Also in the top 10 were Afonso Pena (Brazil), Gdansk Lech Wałęsa (Poland), Sheremetyevo (Russia), Changi (Singapore), Rajiv Gandhi (India), Tenerife North (Spain), and Viracopos/Campinas (Brazil).

The worst airport, at number 132 of 132, was Lisbon Portela (Portugal).

Also in the bottom 10 were Kuwait (Kuwait), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Henri Coanda (Romania), Malta (Malta), Porto (Portugal), Billy Bishop Toronto City (Canada), and Manchester and Gatwick (UK).

AirHelp recommended that French airports should “engage the different airline companies in discussions” to help solve their problem of poor punctuality.

Paris-Orly has arguably already begun to take steps to improve the quality of its passengers’ experience, as it continues to build a new 80,000 m2 extension, which will link the old South and West terminals, in a bid to help improve passenger movement and flow.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Canadian airports rate very low due to punctuality also, yet are very good in my opinion. The Canadians do of course suffer from weather-affected punctuality more than most, coupled with the need to delay departures for connections, since there are quite a few destinations where alternative means of transport would involve waiting till December & using a dogsled.
Seems like yet another list for lists-sake.

[OFSO]

Another day, another terrorist attack, 'heightened security' for a few weeks until it all fades from memory and things return to usual unless you happen to be recovering in hospital.

Until the next one. Repeat ad inf because few European countries have the guts to face the problem and deal with it.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

It is not a problem, it is an inevitable consequence of both Government philosophy and policy. And if you say the policy is a problem, you are guilty of "hate speech".

the threat of terror attacks is “part and parcel of living in a big city”

Sadiq Khan

[OFSO]

An Algerian IT student and his friends have been arrested.......

[OFSO]

Looking at reports of D-Day commemorations on French TV, it would appear that by 1944 every member of every French family over the age of six months was in the Resistance. Including the cat.

[llondel]

The cat was probably the most dangerous member. After all, Larry managed to disrupt proceedings at Westminster way more than any of the protesters. Given the behaviour of the SS, it's quite possible that whole families were on the line if any family member was in the resistance.