The Brits seem to be jabbering on a lot about their pensions these days. Why should I care, I don’t have one cent of pension money coming from anyone in England; thank goodness.
In fact it is rather agreeable to sit back and see them squeezed. After all we have received endless abuse about how antiquated the French system is and how much better is the privatised UK system. Well if you really want your pension money used to finance a private equity buy out with leverage at 1 zillion to one and bankers, accountants, lawyers fees at 10 zillion euro then by all means the City is the place for your pension.
But should I be so smug? Are the English the sort of people to take their medicine? Or are they more likely to look at ways, fair but mainly foul, to pass on their suffering to people who have strictly nothing to do with the blundering of the British economy?
England is creating a lot of strays and waifs. Poorly pensioned boomers, late career journalists with low pension prospects, divorcees in need of child assistance, mangy horses. You guessed it, they are all turning up in France to sponge off our ‘antiquated system’. What do our pathetic politicians do? Do they put cameras under the trucks coming from England to detect these fugitives? Are they using converted old ships as holding lodging pending their return home? Do they plan charters from Paris to London to repatriate these sorry masses? Hell no, they just share all our goodies with these spongers, encouraging Brown to plan further cleansing of the economically invalid. Is Le Pen the only answer?
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And don't forget the ones who have hamster habits to support and can't afford rehab.
That's why I moved to Switzerland - their health care for rocking horses is second to none.
Three cheers for the record-breaking TGV. Unfortunately even more English people will now move to France to get away from their shockingly abyssmal rail service.
Yes, indeed. I couldn't believe the Eurostar from Paris to London. Flew through France, sped under the Channel and then went biddly-bong, biddly-bong the rest of the way.
I notice that fares in southeastern England are going up 20 per cent and they're doing away with supersaver fares. The reason, apparently, is that too many people are using the trains. This seems to make more sense to them as a solution that simply adding more coaches. Mind you, they are taking out some of the toilets to add standing room. That would be funny if it wasn't so appalling.
It's such a typical Brit attitude. I remember going into a newsagent's in my home town a couple of years ago to buy (sorry, Richard) the Guardian. "Oh," said the man. "You have to get here much earlier than this. I only get six and there's far too much demand for them. It's a nuisance."
I asked the self-evident question -- why didn't he order more? -- and he drew himself up to his full 5 feet and said snottily: "I'll thank you not to tell me how to run my business."
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