Far-Left activists stoking up a rebellion using resentment at the cost of living to fuel public anger – and careful to avoid any serious challenge to ruinous eco-obsessions. The Ukraine war has exposed (not caused) the energy poverty the Greens have been dragging us down into.
N Satori
1 year ago
Far-Left activists stoking up a rebellion using resentment at the cost of living to fuel public anger – and careful to avoid any serious challenge to ruinous eco-obsessions. The Ukraine war has exposed (not caused) the energy poverty the Greens have been dragging us down into.
james elliott
1 year ago
They are Cost of *Lockdown* protests.
Cost of Net Zero Protests.
The current economic woes have been caused exclusively by the ‘expert’ class of central planners.
Get it right.
james elliott
1 year ago
They are Cost of *Lockdown* protests.
Cost of Net Zero Protests.
The current economic woes have been caused exclusively by the ‘expert’ class of central planners.
Get it right.
Stephen Walsh
1 year ago
I knew with this author that we’d get to sanctions against Russia in the end. But high rates of inflation are not primarily due to sanctions against Russia, however self defeating. In fact falling energy costs are now a drag on inflation, although the unwinding of energy price supports in France may muddy the picture. Inflation has been driven by QE, which accelerated during Lockdown, and was in fact necessary during Lockdown to bolster popular support for shutting down the economy at that time, which might otherwise have led to protests against sudden mass unemployment. Printing more money to fund government supports inevitably led to inflation: if QE on that scale had not happened, energy price inflation would have been offset by deflation in other parts of the economy.
Stephen Walsh
1 year ago
I knew with this author that we’d get to sanctions against Russia in the end. But high rates of inflation are not primarily due to sanctions against Russia, however self defeating. In fact falling energy costs are now a drag on inflation, although the unwinding of energy price supports in France may muddy the picture. Inflation has been driven by QE, which accelerated during Lockdown, and was in fact necessary during Lockdown to bolster popular support for shutting down the economy at that time, which might otherwise have led to protests against sudden mass unemployment. Printing more money to fund government supports inevitably led to inflation: if QE on that scale had not happened, energy price inflation would have been offset by deflation in other parts of the economy.
Susan Grabston
1 year ago
There is much more to this than the cost of living crisis. The left should have stuck to occupy wall st rather than get in bed with the kleptocracy. These wounds go back to the GFC. They have festered ever since and now erupted.
Susan Grabston
1 year ago
There is much more to this than the cost of living crisis. The left should have stuck to occupy wall st rather than get in bed with the kleptocracy. These wounds go back to the GFC. They have festered ever since and now erupted.
Robbie K
1 year ago
The French have always been revolting to be honest.
Robbie K
1 year ago
The French have always been revolting to be honest.
Paul T
1 year ago
The left has tired of democracy and the electorate.
Paul T
1 year ago
The left has tired of democracy and the electorate.
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
Protests like France… oh no Mr and Mrs Compliant-Lemming in nu Britn would not dream of it… there would be ” guidelines” to prevent it…
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
Protests like France… oh no Mr and Mrs Compliant-Lemming in nu Britn would not dream of it… there would be ” guidelines” to prevent it…
Rose D
1 year ago
I’m not sure I would describe the cost of living crisis as “partly caused by western sanctions against Russia” but rather “attenuated” or “magnified” or “accelerated” by western sanctions against Russia. The crisis stems from exponential increases in electricity costs – and Europe was well in its way to energy poverty pre-Putin invading Ukraine. The invasion & resulting sanctions merely brought the inevitable forward.
Rose D
1 year ago
I’m not sure I would describe the cost of living crisis as “partly caused by western sanctions against Russia” but rather “attenuated” or “magnified” or “accelerated” by western sanctions against Russia. The crisis stems from exponential increases in electricity costs – and Europe was well in its way to energy poverty pre-Putin invading Ukraine. The invasion & resulting sanctions merely brought the inevitable forward.
Paul Walsh
1 year ago
Let them burn cake. Or maybe, you cant burn your cake and eat it.
Paul Walsh
1 year ago
Let them burn cake. Or maybe, you cant burn your cake and eat it.
Billy Bob
1 year ago
I wondered if Pilkington would blame Russian sanctions for the French being lazy, and I wasn’t disappointed even if he did make me wait until the end of the article. The French have been rioting about any perceived slight (no matter how minor) since before I was born, so why is this one going to be the one to bring down the west?
Having lived in France for nearly fifteen years, I can assure you that the ordinary French worker is anything but lazy. If Brits worked as hard, the productivity gap would disappear.
idleness is largely restricted to the Nomenklatura in the the public sector and the large corporations.
Having lived in France for nearly fifteen years, I can assure you that the ordinary French worker is anything but lazy. If Brits worked as hard, the productivity gap would disappear.
idleness is largely restricted to the Nomenklatura in the the public sector and the large corporations.
Billy Bob
1 year ago
I wondered if Pilkington would blame Russian sanctions for the French being lazy, and I wasn’t disappointed even if he did make me wait until the end of the article. The French have been rioting about any perceived slight (no matter how minor) since before I was born, so why is this one going to be the one to bring down the west?
Far-Left activists stoking up a rebellion using resentment at the cost of living to fuel public anger – and careful to avoid any serious challenge to ruinous eco-obsessions. The Ukraine war has exposed (not caused) the energy poverty the Greens have been dragging us down into.
Far-Left activists stoking up a rebellion using resentment at the cost of living to fuel public anger – and careful to avoid any serious challenge to ruinous eco-obsessions. The Ukraine war has exposed (not caused) the energy poverty the Greens have been dragging us down into.
They are Cost of *Lockdown* protests.
Cost of Net Zero Protests.
The current economic woes have been caused exclusively by the ‘expert’ class of central planners.
Get it right.
They are Cost of *Lockdown* protests.
Cost of Net Zero Protests.
The current economic woes have been caused exclusively by the ‘expert’ class of central planners.
Get it right.
I knew with this author that we’d get to sanctions against Russia in the end. But high rates of inflation are not primarily due to sanctions against Russia, however self defeating. In fact falling energy costs are now a drag on inflation, although the unwinding of energy price supports in France may muddy the picture. Inflation has been driven by QE, which accelerated during Lockdown, and was in fact necessary during Lockdown to bolster popular support for shutting down the economy at that time, which might otherwise have led to protests against sudden mass unemployment. Printing more money to fund government supports inevitably led to inflation: if QE on that scale had not happened, energy price inflation would have been offset by deflation in other parts of the economy.
I knew with this author that we’d get to sanctions against Russia in the end. But high rates of inflation are not primarily due to sanctions against Russia, however self defeating. In fact falling energy costs are now a drag on inflation, although the unwinding of energy price supports in France may muddy the picture. Inflation has been driven by QE, which accelerated during Lockdown, and was in fact necessary during Lockdown to bolster popular support for shutting down the economy at that time, which might otherwise have led to protests against sudden mass unemployment. Printing more money to fund government supports inevitably led to inflation: if QE on that scale had not happened, energy price inflation would have been offset by deflation in other parts of the economy.
There is much more to this than the cost of living crisis. The left should have stuck to occupy wall st rather than get in bed with the kleptocracy. These wounds go back to the GFC. They have festered ever since and now erupted.
There is much more to this than the cost of living crisis. The left should have stuck to occupy wall st rather than get in bed with the kleptocracy. These wounds go back to the GFC. They have festered ever since and now erupted.
The French have always been revolting to be honest.
The French have always been revolting to be honest.
The left has tired of democracy and the electorate.
The left has tired of democracy and the electorate.
Protests like France… oh no Mr and Mrs Compliant-Lemming in nu Britn would not dream of it… there would be ” guidelines” to prevent it…
Protests like France… oh no Mr and Mrs Compliant-Lemming in nu Britn would not dream of it… there would be ” guidelines” to prevent it…
I’m not sure I would describe the cost of living crisis as “partly caused by western sanctions against Russia” but rather “attenuated” or “magnified” or “accelerated” by western sanctions against Russia. The crisis stems from exponential increases in electricity costs – and Europe was well in its way to energy poverty pre-Putin invading Ukraine. The invasion & resulting sanctions merely brought the inevitable forward.
I’m not sure I would describe the cost of living crisis as “partly caused by western sanctions against Russia” but rather “attenuated” or “magnified” or “accelerated” by western sanctions against Russia. The crisis stems from exponential increases in electricity costs – and Europe was well in its way to energy poverty pre-Putin invading Ukraine. The invasion & resulting sanctions merely brought the inevitable forward.
Let them burn cake. Or maybe, you cant burn your cake and eat it.
Let them burn cake. Or maybe, you cant burn your cake and eat it.
I wondered if Pilkington would blame Russian sanctions for the French being lazy, and I wasn’t disappointed even if he did make me wait until the end of the article. The French have been rioting about any perceived slight (no matter how minor) since before I was born, so why is this one going to be the one to bring down the west?
Having lived in France for nearly fifteen years, I can assure you that the ordinary French worker is anything but lazy. If Brits worked as hard, the productivity gap would disappear.
idleness is largely restricted to the Nomenklatura in the the public sector and the large corporations.
Hear Hear
Hear Hear
Having lived in France for nearly fifteen years, I can assure you that the ordinary French worker is anything but lazy. If Brits worked as hard, the productivity gap would disappear.
idleness is largely restricted to the Nomenklatura in the the public sector and the large corporations.
I wondered if Pilkington would blame Russian sanctions for the French being lazy, and I wasn’t disappointed even if he did make me wait until the end of the article. The French have been rioting about any perceived slight (no matter how minor) since before I was born, so why is this one going to be the one to bring down the west?