French farmers have today started an “indefinite” tractor siege of Paris to protest the Government’s crippling Net Zero policies, blocking off key routes after threatening to “starve” the city amid warnings the capital only has three days of food. The Mail has more.
Tractors are clogging major roads bringing traffic to a grinding halt around the city with stacks of hay bales also used to block carriageways as part of a bitter on-running dispute over work conditions.
Meanwhile, the southern city of Toulouse has nearly been ‘cut off’ in the midst of similar protests in what will be a major test for France’s youngest ever PM Gabriel Attal – just weeks after he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron aged 34.
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 say undermine their ability to compete with other countries.
Protesting farmers started the operation by blocking the A13 highway to the west of the capital, the A4 to the east and the A6 on which hundreds of tractors rolled towards Paris from the south. The Government in response has deployed some 15,000 police officers.
By mid-afternoon [the farmers] appeared to have met their objective of establishing eight chokepoints on major roads into Paris, according to Sytadin, a traffic monitoring service.
“We need answers,” said Karine Duc, a farmer in the southwestern Lot-et-Garonne department as she joined a convoy of tractors heading for Paris. “This is the final battle for farming. It’s a question of survival,” she added.
A banner on a tractor in the convoy said: “We will not die in silence.” …
The agriculture workers are protesting for more protection against rising production costs and for an end to green Net Zero policies that they say are putting them out of business.
The Government, wary of seeing the protests escalate and with an eye on European Parliament elections in June, has already dropped plans to gradually reduce subsidies on agricultural diesel and promised to ease environmental regulations.
France also said it would push its European Union peers to agree to ease regulations on fallow farmland. But farmers’ organisation said it was not enough.
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He runs International Rescue? FAB
Thunderbirds are go. I bloody well knew I had seen those two in something on tv.
I really don’t think those vehicles or the emerging from a volcano is at all climate friendly
Yes, but those vehicles are not for the likes of us.
Psst… your strings are showing.
I am surprised.
#metoo
Well I never.
It is safe to conclude that the depth of corruption running through Kneel’s government is so deep that a day without such a revelation would be headline making in and of itself.
I’d happily approve a one-off payment of several million pounds each to the whole damn lot of them if they promise to piss off to the Cayman Islands and leave us in peace.
Yes, but what about next year’s payment?
One time offer, no comebacks.
Once they have settled in on the Caymans, say six months, we nuke them.
You could buy a lot of hempen rope for several million quid… much more environmentally friendly.
These two are proper dense say what you like about their dad. Honestly I don’t understand the attraction.
What the article didn’t mention is that giant batteries as backup storage for when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun shine are an absolute bust anyway (just like every other ‘hi-tech’ aspect of the Net Zero agenda);
It would cost £ trillions to provide even a few days worth across the UK, and there are not nearly enough heavy metal and mineral reserves available on the planet for any widescale implementations of this ludicrous concept in any case.
The ‘Green agenda’ isn’t going to happen. England will be the last country to forsake it and not before it has done a lot of damage but it is being disinvested on a worldwide level on every level. Because it is a lie of course and it has been exposed. But when the dust has settled you will as an economy have a hard time of meeting your energy needs because your infrastructure will have been destroyed.
By design… they are following a script
The idea of a “clean energy superpower” is a contradiction in terms. “Clean energy 3rd World Nation” might be a more accurate phrase. Reliance upon renewables can only bring a nation in one direction… towards a weakening of its security against stronger nations that are backed up by their fossil fuel wealth, and the total reliance on those nations for our economic prosperity, including buying oil and gas from them. I.e. outsourcing our extraction of oil and gas and exporting our wealth.
Sort of on topic:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/how-schleswig-holstein-sold-their
There’s always a money story involved whenever some politician crawls out of the woodwork and starts skipping around a podium, Milliband-style, advocating a supposedly philanthropic cause like Net Zero. The venture-capital firm Giant Ventures and it’s bitches-in-arms the Milliband Brothers will happily reap their fortunes while the global climate laughs in our faces as it continues on it’s merry little way regardless.
There seems to be no limit to the corruption in Westminster! It doesn’t even surprise us any longer.
The Milibands: Prize Marxist Pigs, of the Animal Farm Variety. Snouts in every trough they can find.