We all know this country is knackered, but strewth, it ain’t half as bad as France.What’s that all about then?Over here, the Government chops £82 billion off spending, and raises the retirement age to 66, and there’s not a dicky bird of protest. Over there, they set fire to housing estates ‘cos they don’t fancy the idea of having to work not until 66, but bleeding 62!What planet are they on? Over here, we write a letter to The Times. Over there, they blockade a couple of ports so the oil runs out and everyone’s chopping up their dining room chairs for firewood.Over here, our roads have more potholes than the surface of Mars, and the branch libraries have been turned into Starbucks ‘cos the councils have shut up shop.Over there, the schoolkids are rioting ‘cos, for some reason, they don’t want their parents to retire at 62 either, even though they’ll have to pay for them. But what the hell. Anyexcuse for a ruck.Not only that, but the country actually supports them! If I was their president, I’d say, ‘Right, you sods, if you want to retire at 60 and drink Beaujolais all day, then fi ne by me, and you can pay 70% income tax to pay for it’.Blimey, at this rate, we’ll have hundreds of French council chief executives buying second homes in rural England to get away from their own country… glass of Beaujolais, please mate… leave the cork…
