I was based in France for about a year, and the one thing you can say is that the French workers stand up for themselves, and I respect them for that.
Here in the UK we have all lost our
it seems, and just accept whatever
is thrown at us. Also, employment legislation has been changed to prevent widespread strikes.
As far as the country being able to afford it, how is it in the UK that we are all being told there's no money for better wages or NHS or fixing the roads, or our pensions, yet we are financing wars all over the place, a 32billion pound train set nobody actually needs, paying massive salaries to all the management and CEO's, massive expenses being paid to MP's and bonuses being paid to the bankers who got the country into the mess in the first place????!!!!
Sorry, rant over - I'm just going to have a lie down.