French government imposes curfew after riots in Paris.

 

The street riots in France, may have started out as an issue about conditions in French schools, but it has escalated to include a range of grievances including the cost of living. It isn't just school students that are involved. There's widespread public frustration in France with high inflation and high prices.

The May 1968 crisis in France, started out as an anti-repression and education protest, but quickly grew into a nationwide general strike involving around 10 million workers. France is a revolutionary country and the French are more inclined to take direct action and are more politically savvy. They tend to vent their spleen on the forces of authority. 

The French see the British as more supine, because they allow the government to walk all over them. There are similar cost of living problems in Britain as there are in France, but the British tend to blame illegal migrants and foreigners for everything. 

The British government are continuing to increase the state retirement age and to cut the value of the state retirement pension. They also want to cut welfare to pay for warfare and to cut taxes for the rich. All this goes on in Britain with hardly a whimper of protests because people are obsessed and distracted by illegal migrants crossing the English Channel in rubber boats.  

If they can't get a decent well paid job, an affordable rented home, or a GP or dental appointment, the Brits tend to blame it all on illegal immigrants rather than government policy and the capitalist market system. Compared to France, there are still more people in trade unions in Britain, but the French are far more politically volatile and always have been. The French government have now imposed a curfew to deal with the riots.